Obama has waged a vicious War on Whistleblowers, the details of which are insufficiently known to the public. High level security officials, true American patriots like Thomas Drake and John Kiriakou have been handcuffed, dragged through the courts and jailed. William Binney had guns pointed at himself and his wife in their home. Chelsea Manning endures constant persecution and humiliation which meets the bar of cruel and degrading punishment. Edward Snowden pines in exile. These are just the highest profile examples. Hillary Clinton was the driving force behind Obama’s hard line attacks on whistleblowers.
Under Obama, whistleblowers face a total of 751 months behind bars — compared to 24 months for all other whistleblowers combined since the American Revolution. The protection of free speech and truth-telling has been wrenched away under Obama.
I am proud to be a whistleblower myself, and like Drake, Kiriakou, Binney, Manning and Snowden a recipient of the annual Sam Adams award. We have another recipient – Julian Assange – who is a most useful ally indeed.
Whistleblowers seemed a soft target. Indeed seven years into his Presidency Obama seemed to be winning the War on Whistleblowers hands down, leaving them serving time or marginalised and cast out from society.
But Obama/Clinton miscalculated massively. If you set up the super surveillance state, hoovering up all the internet traffic of pretty well everybody, that is not just going to affect the ordinary people whom the elite despise. There is also going to be an awful lot of traffic intercepted from sleazy members of the elite connected to even the most senior politicians, revealing all their corruption and idiosyncracies. From people like John Podesta, to take an entirely random example. And once the super surveillance state has intercepted and stored all that highly incriminating material, you never know if some decent human being, some genuine patriot, from within the security services is going to feel compelled to turn whistleblower.
Then they might turn for help to, to take another entirely random example, Julian Assange.
Obama/Clinton have perished politically as an example of the ultimate in political hubris. Downed by their own surveillance super state. Obama/Clinton’s War on Whistleblowers resulted in the most humiliating of defeats, and now they are political history. This is karma for their persecution of some of the best people in their nation. Good riddance.
All nothing to do with any Russians.
Disclaimer – though I reference fellow holders of the Sam Adams award, this does not indicate a joint effort or that individual award holders or the Sam Adamas Associates necessarily agree with actions taken.
Well, well, well ….. deja vu or an emerging singularity, Craig?
https://www.ft.com/content/96d598da-abfa-11e6-9cb3-bb8207902122
” German security head warns of election interference from Russia
Intelligence chief expresses concern over Kremlin’s influence on decision-making”
At least a month ago…
Do we know where Julian Assange is?
I have been looking for some definite proof of his whereabout but can’t seem to find any real concrete rpoof, all I find is old stuff or news that aren’t conclusive.
they need to get Obama and Clinton away from politics. They are crooks
The Belfast Telegraph liked this:
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/cias-russia-hacking-claims-dismissed-as-bulls-by-former-uk-ambassador-craig-murray-35288057.html
And you are supported by Trump. Maybe you should start a consultancy?
SNP MP Michelle Thomson has been reported to the procurator fiscal after a mortgage fraud probe.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-38310805
SNP woman Denied wrongdoing?
An MP has been reported to Scottish prosecutors after a police investigation into allegations of mortgage fraud.
Edinburgh West MP Michelle Thomson is one of five people named in the report.
Mrs Thomson, 51, resigned the SNP whip when an investigation into the allegations was launched last year. She denies any wrongdoing.
Last week, she reduced MPs to tears when she described how she had been raped as a 14-year-old.
BBC Ministry of Truth
How many is it now being investigated?
A Crown Office spokesman said: “The procurator fiscal has received a report concerning four men aged 48, 56, 59 and 59 and one woman aged 51” in relation to alleged incidents between June 2010 and July 2011.
The spokesman said the report remains under the consideration of the procurator fiscal.
Police Scotland confirmed it had submitted a report to the fiscal in “in relation to an investigation into alleged mortgage fraud”.
BBC Ministry of Truth
Woman Denied Wrongdoing
It is understood one of the men named in the report is solicitor Christopher Hales, who was struck off by the Law Society after being found guilty of professional misconduct over 13 property deals in 2010 and 2011.
All 13 of the transactions Mr Hales was struck off for were reported to have involved Mrs Michelle Thomson
or M&F Property Solutions, a firm in which Mrs Michelle Thomson was said to be a partner.
Why do Police Scotland, take so long to get to the bottom of these frauds?
Mrs Thomson has been sitting as an independent MP, with her former SNP colleagues giving their unanimous backing in September to calls for the party to consider reinstating her.
A spokeswoman for the MP said Mrs Thomson had “voluntarily attended an interview with Police Scotland on 13 October to assist in the ongoing investigation into solicitor Christopher Hales”.
The Edinburgh West MP, Michelle Thomson, who is said to have a property portfolio worth £1.5 million,
resigned the SNP whip in September 2015 after Mr Hales was struck-off by the Law Society of Scotland and
is sitting, currently as an independent but she supports the SNP.
In July, Michelle Thomson emailed colleagues about her “distress” and strenuously denied her firm had targeted
“vulnerable people” to snap up homes at knockdown prices.
SNP MP Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh is facing bankruptcy after a HMRC investigation into her former law firm.
https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/snp/news/81716/snp-mp-tasmina-ahmed-sheikh-facing-hmrc-court-hearing
Lib Dems fined for undeclared election spending –
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/07/lib-dems-fined-20000-for-undeclared-election-spending
Labour cabinet expenses breakdown –
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/cabinet-expenses/
Tory election fraud (allegedly – still the subject of police enquiry)
http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2016/11/17/tory-election-fraud-investigation-mays-chief-of-staff-faces-questioning/
Not to mention Nigel, who has plainly never been the wrong side of a Soviet inquisitor…
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-electoral-commission-european-parliament-investigation-400k-taxpayers-money-a7472691.html
I posted both my links within an hour of them being published, they were what is called topical news.
Your links are what is known as muck raking.
Apologies, Fred. I don’t have my satellite dish permanently tuned to Stuff I Can Use To Diss the SNP ™, with the remote alarm in the barn to warn me if something comes up while I am masturbating the tups. And very often (see the post you just dumped on, above), I try to stay on topic for a bit. Still, you’d be the expert on muckraking…and shovelling shit, wouldn’t you?
Though no doubt you’d like the taxpayer to do it for you –
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-34277913
Fifty six yellow bottles, sitting on a wall.
Fifty six yellow bottles, sitting on a wall.
If one yellow bottle, should accidentally fall.
There’d be fifty five yellow bottles, sitting on the wall.
Fifty five yellow bottles…
I think that proves my point.
I almost choked on my bollinger and truffles, reading your hypocritical comment Fred.
You wouldn’t know the difference between topical and muck racking, if they both jumped up and bit you on the arse.
No wonder Baal seems perplexed.
SNP ‘likely’ to reinstate suspended MP Michelle Thomson after police say she’s in the clear
http://www.thenational.scot/news/14896116.SNP____likely____to_reinstate_suspended_MP_Michelle_Thomson_after_police_say_she___s_in_the_clear/
Humble apologies looks like she is in the clear.
SNP MP not guilty.
I thought ba’al was just fairly pointing that mp’s are all in it together! C’mon fred learn to spread the hatred further!
The Guardian today has a full and detailed report on how the Russians hacked the Democratic Party e-mail accounts:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/14/dnc-hillary-clinton-emails-hacked-russia-aide-typo-investigation-finds
I know it won’t be popular rating on here, and that it exposes certain people as liars, but there it is.
The guardian is a fake news site. I have an app that alerts me if I should stumble on its pages. I discount everything it reports.
Welcome to FRANCE
Land of permanent State of Emergency
Women say Muslim-majority areas in French suburbs are now NO-GO areas for females where they are banned from mixing with men and must dress conservatively
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4032680/Undercover-footage-reveals-no-zones-women-France-s-majority-Muslim-suburbs.html#ixzz4StaJh5F5
Ministry of Truth
the BBC has now removed all mention of The Edinburgh West MP, Michelle Thomson, who is said to have a property portfolio worth £1.5 million?