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		<title>By: jumpinjack</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/11/11/an-army-of-whistleblowers-waiting-in-the-wings/#comment-1722070</link>
		<dc:creator>jumpinjack</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Thank you for this link. I just signed &amp; sent the message to President Obama (gawd I like that sound!). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BTW - at the bottom of the form it asks for the name of the company I work for — I signed it “American Citizen &amp; Voter for Barack Obama”.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I ENCOURAGE ALL READERS HERE TO FOLLOW THIS LINK AND SEND THIS MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT OBAMA.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you for this link. I just signed &amp; sent the message to President Obama (gawd I like that sound!). </p>
<p>BTW &#8211; at the bottom of the form it asks for the name of the company I work for — I signed it “American Citizen &amp; Voter for Barack Obama”.</p>
<p>I ENCOURAGE ALL READERS HERE TO FOLLOW THIS LINK AND SEND THIS MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT OBAMA.</p>
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		<title>By: bigbrother</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/11/11/an-army-of-whistleblowers-waiting-in-the-wings/#comment-1722001</link>
		<dc:creator>bigbrother</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;The Hague may take it up. Our dirty laundrey should be our job but Obama is so hot not to offend the right!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Hague may take it up. Our dirty laundrey should be our job but Obama is so hot not to offend the right!</p>
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		<title>By: TomPaine</title>
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		<dc:creator>TomPaine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Exactly right!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The higher levels of the bureaucracy (the career Senior Executive Service)&lt;br /&gt;
are the people most likely to have evidence on criminal wrong doing, but many of them will be compromised because of the need to “get along” with the “evil doers” in their desire to remain in DC area rather than being reassigned to Boise, Idaho.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Another factor is that the only statutory means of protecting whistleblowers is the independent Office of the Special Counsel, which ever since its creation in 1978 has never provided such whistleblowers timely or effective protection. Even if the Special Counsel wanted to do justice, it is too weak to overcome the resistance of the Department and Agency Secretaries, Assistant Secretaries of Administration, General Counsels, etc. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The one Department that might have the will (especially the Office of civil rights) and the means to clean house is the Justice Department.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Exactly right!</p>
<p>The higher levels of the bureaucracy (the career Senior Executive Service)<br />
are the people most likely to have evidence on criminal wrong doing, but many of them will be compromised because of the need to “get along” with the “evil doers” in their desire to remain in DC area rather than being reassigned to Boise, Idaho.</p>
<p>Another factor is that the only statutory means of protecting whistleblowers is the independent Office of the Special Counsel, which ever since its creation in 1978 has never provided such whistleblowers timely or effective protection. Even if the Special Counsel wanted to do justice, it is too weak to overcome the resistance of the Department and Agency Secretaries, Assistant Secretaries of Administration, General Counsels, etc. </p>
<p>The one Department that might have the will (especially the Office of civil rights) and the means to clean house is the Justice Department.</p>
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		<title>By: james</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/11/11/an-army-of-whistleblowers-waiting-in-the-wings/#comment-1721763</link>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Let’s make sure that all the moles are outed, the ones who got career jobs when they should have held political appointments.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Someone wants to blow the whistle on what was done, that’s fine, but name the gatekeepers, the people/person who controlled the information flow who was able to make sure that, say, info on people learning to fly planes but not land them, went nowhere, people like the FBI SAIC who got promoted for ignoring Coleen Rawley, people like Edmonds’s supervisors who ignored her complaints and went on to promote others who were basically part of an espionage cell within the FBI.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No more people left behind like Linda Tripp or Donald Gregg to terrorize this incoming administration. Obama is going to have enough to deal with as it is without having to fight an internal covert op designed to interfere with everything he does.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And that includes getting rid of Short Ride, Reid, Pelosi, and anyone else who was blocking the impeachment of this criminal.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let’s make sure that all the moles are outed, the ones who got career jobs when they should have held political appointments.</p>
<p>Someone wants to blow the whistle on what was done, that’s fine, but name the gatekeepers, the people/person who controlled the information flow who was able to make sure that, say, info on people learning to fly planes but not land them, went nowhere, people like the FBI SAIC who got promoted for ignoring Coleen Rawley, people like Edmonds’s supervisors who ignored her complaints and went on to promote others who were basically part of an espionage cell within the FBI.</p>
<p>No more people left behind like Linda Tripp or Donald Gregg to terrorize this incoming administration. Obama is going to have enough to deal with as it is without having to fight an internal covert op designed to interfere with everything he does.</p>
<p>And that includes getting rid of Short Ride, Reid, Pelosi, and anyone else who was blocking the impeachment of this criminal.</p>
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		<title>By: direlogfake</title>
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		<dc:creator>direlogfake</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;9/11 was a false flag operation used as a pretext for geo-political-resource hegemony, for curtailing our precious civil liberties, and for muzzling democracy as a whole. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;after seven years of yellow-orange-red coded fear mongering, please let us have our day of truth and reconciliation. we cannot heal as a nation without truth. we cannot salvage our role as a world leader without justice.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>9/11 was a false flag operation used as a pretext for geo-political-resource hegemony, for curtailing our precious civil liberties, and for muzzling democracy as a whole. </p>
<p>after seven years of yellow-orange-red coded fear mongering, please let us have our day of truth and reconciliation. we cannot heal as a nation without truth. we cannot salvage our role as a world leader without justice.</p>
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		<title>By: jayt</title>
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		<dc:creator>jayt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;…live long enought to see Alberto Gonzales indicted for all the wrongs he did while AG. Oh, and George Bush…and, of course, Dick Cheney…..then there’s Karl Rove.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and David Addington. Gonzo isn’t responsible, except by his silence and lying, for the biggest percentage of the truly reprehensible stuff that this admin concocted.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Addington was in on *all* of it.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>…live long enought to see Alberto Gonzales indicted for all the wrongs he did while AG. Oh, and George Bush…and, of course, Dick Cheney…..then there’s Karl Rove.</i></p>
<p>and David Addington. Gonzo isn’t responsible, except by his silence and lying, for the biggest percentage of the truly reprehensible stuff that this admin concocted.</p>
<p>Addington was in on *all* of it.</p>
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		<title>By: yellowsnapdragon</title>
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		<dc:creator>yellowsnapdragon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Well here is something interesting, if true.  Conyers to have impeachment hearings post election.  Now could that help prevent a Bush pardoning frenzy?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/11/17385/384/630/659405&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.dailykos.com/storyo.....630/659405&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well here is something interesting, if true.  Conyers to have impeachment hearings post election.  Now could that help prevent a Bush pardoning frenzy?<br /><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/11/17385/384/630/659405" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/storyo&#8230;..630/659405</a></p>
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		<title>By: kathyinstlouis1</title>
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		<dc:creator>kathyinstlouis1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;To Whatever Higher Power There Is:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dear He or She:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am getting older and may not be around to see all the wrongs of the past 8 years undone.  I ask only that you let me live long enought to see Alberto Gonzales indicted for all the wrongs he did while AG.  Oh, and George Bush…and, of course, Dick Cheney…..then there’s Karl Rove.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Did God:  I want to live forever…&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To Whatever Higher Power There Is:</p>
<p>Dear He or She:</p>
<p>I am getting older and may not be around to see all the wrongs of the past 8 years undone.  I ask only that you let me live long enought to see Alberto Gonzales indicted for all the wrongs he did while AG.  Oh, and George Bush…and, of course, Dick Cheney…..then there’s Karl Rove.  </p>
<p>Did God:  I want to live forever…</p>
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		<title>By: BayStateLibrul</title>
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		<dc:creator>BayStateLibrul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Is Fitzy part of the whistle-gang?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is Fitzy part of the whistle-gang?</p>
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		<title>By: BargainCountertenor</title>
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		<dc:creator>BargainCountertenor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Sure, he can pardon himself.  But the pardon has to be fairly clear about the crime(s) being pardoned.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Proclamation_4311&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Nixon’s pardon&lt;/a&gt; was a blanket pardon for crimes against the United State during his term in office.  It wasn’t good for crimes committed before his inauguration nor those committed after his resignation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I suppose the Dim Son could issue himself a blanket pardon covering January 20, 2001 to January 19, 2009.  But I don’t really believe that even he’s that stupid.  He IS worried about his ‘legacy,’ as if a fiscally bankrupt government and morally bankrupt executive aren’t legacy enough.  Pardoning himself would simply confirm in the minds of more than half of the country that he was criminally negligent in the performance of his office.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sure, he can pardon himself.  But the pardon has to be fairly clear about the crime(s) being pardoned.</p>
<p>For example, <a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Proclamation_4311" rel="nofollow">Nixon’s pardon</a> was a blanket pardon for crimes against the United State during his term in office.  It wasn’t good for crimes committed before his inauguration nor those committed after his resignation.</p>
<p>I suppose the Dim Son could issue himself a blanket pardon covering January 20, 2001 to January 19, 2009.  But I don’t really believe that even he’s that stupid.  He IS worried about his ‘legacy,’ as if a fiscally bankrupt government and morally bankrupt executive aren’t legacy enough.  Pardoning himself would simply confirm in the minds of more than half of the country that he was criminally negligent in the performance of his office.</p>
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