Not even Trump can stop the power of whistleblowers if we stand by them | Opinion

Make no mistake: How we as a nation are responding to the Ukraine whistleblower matters.

The Trump and Nixon impeachment efforts mirror each other in substance and process. In both cases, we see gross abuse of power by the president—as well as aides and Cabinet members doing his bidding—to injure his political rivals. We see deliberate attempts to cover up the initial misconduct. And we see the existence of damning, tangible evidence.

Mark Felt, the former associate director at the FBI, was"Deep Throat," the primary confidential source who shared the Watergate investigation's findings withreporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Their coverage of the scandal was critical to provoking public outcry. Today, we have one initial whistleblower, who went through existing legal disclosure channels to discharge his duty of reporting evidence of grotesque abuses of the office of the president for political gain, as well as evidence of deliberate efforts to cover up the evidence.

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