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Check out these articles and their comments:
http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2012/06/the-danger-of-hasty-anti-leak-legislation.html (pending moderation)
Both make the same point: that no safe, legal channels exist for the disclosure of classified information. This is simply not true.
The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act would not create any such channels, because Section 119 of S. 743 would only modestly upgrade the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act of 1998 (which upgraded the Inspector General Act of 1978), but neither provided for confidential disclosure channels. And WPEA still would not.
Only the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 did so, by creating and authorizing the Office of Special Counsel to receive classified information, and guaranteeing confidentiality.
But it’s not convenient for GAP and POGO to say that now, apparently (despite GAP acknowledging it in 2006, on page 5).
Let them know you expect good government groups to be honest with the public:
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Not sure if this makes sense ,this diary. Second link isn’t making the point “that no safe, legal channels exist for the disclosure of classified information.” and I didn’t get that from the first link either.
In any event ,Lieberman is nothing but a foreign agent for Israel and should have been outed long ago and I haven’t any faith that the OSC is anything but a tool of who ever is in the Executive Branch at the time.
Yeah not my best work. Re the second link, Radack makes a point about Congress needing to provide channels. My comment addresses that head on.
I did a massive rewrite here, to make it easier to understand:
http://mspbwatch.net/2012/06/22/gap-and-pogo-are-peddling-misinformation-about-the-disclosure-of-classified-information-and-the-wpea-why/