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As I see it, certain elements within the whistleblower community are a detriment to whistleblowers acting out of conscience. Mr. Kiriakou will have to make a choice about what kind of person he wants to be after repaying his debt to society. At the very least, such a choice should be an informed one.
I imagine that GAP will now be working double-time to smear this particular critic and do damage control.
Btw, the letter contained a prinout of this diary: http://my.firedoglake.com/wendydavis/2013/03/01/with-head-held-high-john-kiriakou-entered-prison-yesterday/
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Well, bully for you.
Sorry, I just expect more from folks who hold themselves out as watchdogs.
tl;dr. Can you give a concrete summary of exactly what you’d like us to take away based on all these PDFs? Thanks.
In short, the PR campaign around Kiriakou is based on falsehoods. He’s being badly served by his handlers, who have a history of being loose with the truth. If he wants to be a civil rights icon, he’ll have to earn it, and put principle before tribalism.
That work for you?
Is this the case over which a few of your former associates came to a blog of yours here a few months ago to do rhetorical battle with you? Maybe it wasn’t a battle, more of a brawl.
I’m not sure if this case exactly but yes, GAP is a flashpoint of veal pen-ism in the community, and most of their backers are grateful and traumatized whistleblowers, who lend blind support and make it difficult to expose the ways in which GAP stymies real reforms. I keep a running log of ways in which GAP bends the truth, undermines accountability, and other ethical shenanigans:
http://mspbwatch.net/tag/gap/
And
http://mspbwatch.net/category/fact-check/