{"id":3181,"date":"2011-01-15T10:58:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T15:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/?p=3181"},"modified":"2011-01-15T11:00:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T16:00:31","slug":"congressional-hypocrites-investigate-wikileaks-while-soliciting-whistleblowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2011\/01\/congressional-hypocrites-investigate-wikileaks-while-soliciting-whistleblowers.html","title":{"rendered":"Congressional hypocrites investigate Wikileaks while soliciting whistleblowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3183\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3183\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3183\" href=\"http:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2011\/01\/congressional-hypocrites-investigate-wikileaks-while-soliciting-whistleblowers.html\/issa-by-gage-skidmore-on-flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3183 \" title=\"Issa (by Gage Skidmore on Flickr)\" src=\"http:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Issa-by-Gage-Skidmore-on-Flickr.jpg\" alt=\"Darrell Issa\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Irony-impaired Darrell Issa (R-CA) (Photo by Gage Skidmore on Flickr)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) launched a new <a href=\"https:\/\/wb-gop-oversight.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> this week soliciting government whistleblowers.\u00a0 The site is <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/hillicon-valley\/technology\/137227-issa-launches-whistleblower-website\" target=\"_blank\">looking for<\/a> anonymous tips to locate government waste, abuse, and fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Issa has also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2011\/jan\/03\/republicans-wikileaks-investigation?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">promised to investigate<\/a> Wikileaks, which has been the largest source of whistleblown tips for government waste, abuse, and fraud in recent history.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Issa said his committee would investigate WikiLeaks because it wanted  &#8220;to get that right so the diplomats can do their job with confidence  and people can talk to our government with confidence&#8221;.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, in recognition of the probable lack of any existing laws with which to prosecute a foreign news organization for publishing leaked government information, he suggested the new Congress would have to pass legislation to try to prevent &#8220;similar acts of whistleblowing&#8221;.\u00a0 Issa even calls it whistleblowing in both contexts.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a case of one Congressional hand not knowing what the other is doing.\u00a0 Both of these plans came from the same office within a couple weeks of each other.\u00a0 Apparently, with absolutely no recognition of the inherent irony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both of these plans came from the same office within a couple weeks of each other.  Apparently, with absolutely no recognition of the inherent irony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,96,69],"class_list":["post-3181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-congress","tag-government-abuse","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3181"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3192,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions\/3192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}