{"id":39677,"date":"2019-11-05T15:06:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T15:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39677"},"modified":"2019-11-05T15:06:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T15:06:26","slug":"whistleblower-is-entitled-to-keep-id-a-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39677","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblower is entitled to keep ID a secret"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23whistleblower%20%23impeachment%20%23POTUS%20%23Ukraine&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/whistleblower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39678\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/whistleblower-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/whistleblower-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/whistleblower-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/whistleblower.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump and a number of prominent Republicans want the whistleblower who tore the skin off the impeachment fight to reveal his or her identity.<\/p>\n<p>Trump says the individual is a &#8220;Never Trumper,&#8221; a former Barack Obama campaign or administration aide. Senate Republicans want the individual&#8217;s identity made public and they want the person to testify in public.<\/p>\n<p>I want to dial this back.<\/p>\n<p>I have always understood that the law creating the whistleblower allowed for people with information to share about government abuses to remain secret. That is why they&#8217;re called &#8220;whistleblowers,&#8221; isn&#8217;t that right? They are afforded a level of protection from those who would bully them, coerce them, intimidate them, force them to take back what they say.<\/p>\n<p>The individual who, um, &#8220;blew the whistle&#8221; on the president seeking foreign government help in his re-election bid did so on information he or she obtained. One can challenge the veracity of what the person has revealed. There&#8217;s no need, though, to identify the individual, who is entitled to the level of protection that the whistleblower law provides.<\/p>\n<p>There will be plenty of opportunities to challenge the testimony of other individuals with even more direct knowledge of what occurred, who did it and for what purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s all stay tuned and primed for when it all hits the fan.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23whistleblower%20%23impeachment%20%23POTUS%20%23Ukraine&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump and a number of prominent Republicans want the whistleblower who tore the skin off the impeachment fight to reveal his or her identity. Trump says the individual is a &#8220;Never Trumper,&#8221; a former Barack Obama campaign or administration aide. Senate Republicans want the individual&#8217;s identity made public and they want the person to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39677\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Whistleblower is entitled to keep ID a secret<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,2253,4998,8956],"class_list":["post-39677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-impeachment","tag-ukraine","tag-whistleblower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39679,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39677\/revisions\/39679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}