No One Noticed When Clinton And Obama Abused Whistleblowers

(American Thinker) Here are two unfortunate realities: the first is that whistleblowing becomes virtuous only when a Republican is the one being whistled on; the second is that deep state Democrats have a habit of manipulating whistleblower laws when it suits their purposes. I could write a book -- Ive written several in fact -- on whistleblowers the major media chose to ignore. The two examples that follow one regarding Bill Clinton the other Barack Obama should give a sense of how the worms in Washington turn. The first case involves TWA Flight 800 the 747 that inexplicably crashed off the coast of Long Island in July 1996. As to deep state involvement the Clinton Department of Justice illegally seized control of the investigation from the National Transportation Safety Board and handed it off to the FBI which in turn ceded real control of the investigation to the CIA. In 2008 the CIAs Randolph Tauss went public with an authorized explanation for the agencys involvement. According to Tauss the FBI immediately requested CIA assistance given the possibility that international terrorists may have been involved." Tauss claimed the agency responded to the FBIs request for help less than twenty-four hours after the planes destruction and cited Executive Order 12333 as justification. A clause in that order authorizes the CIA to conduct