What he did is set a precedent for future potential whistle blowers from coming forward and pointing out government corruption. Even as a DOD contractor, we have training(taken by military personnel, civilian government workers and contractors) every year regarding reporting inappropriate behavior/activity and the possibility of laws/policies being broken that can have a direct impact on national security. The whistle-blower policy guarantees no retaliation to the accuser. Rand Paul outing the accuser opens the window for such retaliation. Like I said, it sets a bad precedent for future whistle blowers from reporting bad behavior. This is not a partisan talking point because something like this transcends petty partisan nonsense and political ideology.
It still doesn’t make sense. If Lindsey doesn’t know that the Republican ICIG found the whistleblower report to be credible then he simply didn’t read it.
I would think it isn’t. Whistleblower laws prevent the agency involved (yes, to be applicable he should have been talking about fraud or waste within his agency) from inflicting retribution on the whistle blower. They do not guarantee the whistle blower public anonymity.
You see… if they can cast any shred of doubt that the intention of the whistleblower was not to bring to the attention of the IG that the President was indeed pressuring a foreign government to publicly open an investigation into a potential political rival using the work of his personal lawyer and Eastern European mobsters to remove an Ambassador, withhold Congressionally mandated arms funding and circumvent the ordinary channels in the State Department to help his own future election prospects then they can ignore that the entire thing happened.
Just curious. What steps does a President have to take to transfer an Ambassador, and why would they need a conspiracy with mobsters to transfer an Ambassador?
Why wouldn’t they just pick up the phone, call the Secretary of State, and say “I feel uncomfortable working with xxx, would you please transfer them?”…and that would be more explanation than would be required.