Thread: Benghazi Chickens Coming Home to Roost...

http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2013/...ton-and-obama/

This sounds like it will be interesting. We'll see.

Heres a question to think about when reading that:

Why would a diplomat give a story to a fairly unknown site ran by a fiction writer, when (if true) he could easily go to Fox News, or even Red State/National Review/Hot Air etc.?


Otherwise, according to a former diplomat, who's requested to be kept anonymous, that story is total bullshit.

So if its not on fox news it cant be true...

So everything on the internet IS true?

If I see a major story being posted on ObscureBloggerIveNeverHeardOf.com and it's not being picked up by ANY major news outlet... then there's a pretty good chance that it's fake.

Originally Posted by Kanati8869

So everything on the internet IS true?

If I see a major story being posted on ObscureBloggerIveNeverHeardOf.com and it's not being picked up by ANY major news outlet... then there's a pretty good chance that it's fake.

Pretty much this, plus the fact the source would go to obsecureblogger and not a Fox, National Review, etc. who would LOVVVEEEE the story is pretty fishy. As it looked, it is someone putting out B.S. to try to get coverage to promote their site. Kind of like the guy who puts a 7th rounder going #1 in his mock draft, or the guy who says CRon7 is going to play for Leeds or something. Sure they COULD be right, but more likely its bullshit to get views (in this case its worked so far, at least a little).

Pjmedia is a reputable inside the beltway site. They have broken a lot of news in their short life. Doesn't mean this story is true of course. Like I said, we'll see.

Whistle blowing through the media and other improper channels is not a good idea. Ask Bradley Manning how that works out. Everyone with a clearance has been briefed on the proper way to report wrongdoing. There are procedures in place that ensure that the guilty are punished without reprisals to the whistle blowers. And these procedures don't usually involve your chain of command. So anytime someone goes to the media or Wikileaks or whatever, they only do it for personal gain and therefore their claims must be taken with some skepticism.

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Originally Posted by Gumby

Whistle blowing through the media and other improper channels is not a good idea. Ask Bradley Manning how that works out. Everyone with a clearance has been briefed on the proper way to report wrongdoing. There are procedures in place that ensure that the guilty are punished without reprisals to the whistle blowers. And these procedures don't usually involve your chain of command. So anytime someone goes to the media or Wikileaks or whatever, they only do it for personal gain and therefore their claims must be taken with some skepticism.

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Right. This government will take care of their own. Trust them. Trust them?

Ah, no.

http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=19206140

The term whistleblower denotes someone who tells the truth about inappropriate or illegal activity. To try and posit that we should basically support forcing whistleblowers to go to the very government that they are whistle blowing on and trust them to take care of it is, for lack of a better term, crazy.

Then there's this:

http://m.motherjones.com/politics/20...t-leaks-drones

Sorry about the mobile link, my phone won't let me do a regular one. Here's a quote from that article:

The Obama administration has been cruelly and unusually punishing in its use of the 1917 Espionage Act to stomp on governmental leakers, truth-tellers, and whistleblowers whose disclosures do not support the president's political ambitions. As Thomas Drake, himself a victim of Obama's crusade against whistleblowers, told me, "This makes a mockery of the entire classification system, where political gain is now incentive for leaking and whistleblowing is incentive for prosecution."

Yeah I think maybe we need to encourage whistleblowers to keep going to the press.

Actually yes, the government will protect you if you do it right. Even from Our Dear Leader.

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