President Donald Trump’s norm-breaking behavior in office has revealed some previously unrecognized weaknesses in federal laws about everything from emoluments to emergency spending. Now he’s showing what’s wrong with a federal whistleblowing law.
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Secondly, the whistleblower can submit the report directly to Congress, but only if the inspector general decides the issue is not of urgent concern or is not credible. Additionally, the whistleblower must comply with appropriate security protocols to accommodate the existence of sensitive or classified information in the complaint.This is where the system broke down.
That raises concerns about retaliation, especially given past cases like longtime FBI employee Andrew McCabe, who was fired the day before his retirement after Trump repeatedly criticized him on Twitter for his actions during the initial probe of Trump’s actions in the 2016 election.
That means the whistleblower could be outed if the attorney general – acting independently or at the direction of the president – decided to treat the whistleblowing as a criminal case. It’s safe to say that the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act’s name is a bit of a misnomer because it doesn’t really offer much protection to whistleblowers.
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