CIA on Trial in Virginia for Planting Nuke Evidence in Iran

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The Trial of Jeffrey Sterling

The Man Who Blew the Whistle on the CIA

by NORMAN SOLOMON
CounterPunch, JANUARY 05, 2015

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Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg has concisely summarized the context of the government’s efforts in the Sterling prosecution. “Sterling’s ordeal comes from a strategy to frighten potential whistleblowers, whether he was the source of this leak or not,” Ellsberg said in an interview for an article that journalist Marcy Wheeler and I wrote for The Nation. “The aim is to punish troublemakers with harassment, threats, indictments, years in court and likely prison — even if they’ve only gone through official channels to register accusations about their superiors and agency. That is, by the way, a practical warning to would-be whistleblowers who would prefer to ‘follow the rules.’ But in any case, whoever were the actual sources to the press of information about criminal violations of the Fourth Amendment, in the NSA case, or of reckless incompetence, in the CIA case, they did a great public service.”

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http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/05/the-man-who-blew-the-whistle-on-the-cia/