Targeting Whistleblowers: Truth Telling Endangered
By Stephen Lendman On April 16, journalist John Cole wrote: "The message is clear - you torture people and then destroy the evidence, and you get off without so much as a sternly worded letter. If you are a whistle blower outlining criminal behavior by the government, you get prosecuted." In fact, it's worse. Under Bush, torture was official policy. It remains so under Obama who absolved CIA torturers, despite unequivocal evidence of [...]