Apparently 60 Minutes fucked up. Whistleblower is currently SEEKING Federal protection.

[Miles Archer]

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar

Clarification: apparently 60 Minutes got this wrong and the whistleblower is currently seeking federal protection, citing the president’s statements, but is not currently under federal protection

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

2. The president wants to have his accuser murdered

[ffr]

8. Well, executed for treason, to be exact.

I'm guessing without a trial, if it's up to him.

[defacto7]

18. Agreed

[mucifer]

3. I thought Adam Schiff said they were giving him protection

[Miles Archer]

4. I don't know...the tweet I posed is from 5 minutes ago, so...

...obviously, if something contradicts this info, we can share it here. Things are happening at light speed and mistakes are going to happen based on immediate reporting. Aaron Rupar has been a very dependable source, which is why I posted his tweet.

[Flaleftist]

6. It's my understanding that Pelosi can order the

Capitol Police to provide protection. That might only work if the whistleblower lives in DC. idk

[ffr]

9. More like negotiating a way for safe harbor to and from and perhaps during

Since Nunes is also a Russian asset that everyone knows is a Russian asset.

[Doodley]

5. He/she should be given witness protection for life, because too many idiots.

want to please their dictator. Yes, it is a dictatorship when whistleblowers are threatened by the president or his actions.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

7. After trumpie's tweets, they're going to be FORCED to give

the WB federal protection security.

trumpie made it very clear he wants the WB dead.

[Miles Archer]

11. Yes, the "treason / spy" language was absolutely a dog whistle.

The MAGATs are supposed to be smart enough to hear it, and we're supposed to be stupid enough to think that he didn't send it.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

12. Tomorrow,

He'll send that truck-stop, crack-whore, Kelly Ann Conjob out to tell us he was just joking.

[Hugin]

14. ... with flash cards. n/t

[asiliveandbreathe]

10. This IS a very serious matter..needing protection from the

president of the United States?? and his magats?????

I'm thinking we ALL need protection from him/them.....thus an impeachment inquiry..

[Hugin]

13. The core of what's wrong with the system...

Here we have a person who's doing the correct action in line with the law who's in fear for their safety and meanwhile the real betrayer of the system is jetting around to what are nominally his golf courses on the taxpayer's dime as free as a bird twitting away with mouthfuls of murderous threats of violent actions.

Speaking of Twitter... How is this okay with their so-called TOS? Seems like a double standard to me. Rich people get to threaten others with impunity, but, if someone not so rich mildly irritates someone they get immediately and summarily TOS'ed.

Their rules are a farce.

[OldRed2450]

15. He knows exactly what he is doing and this is a clear threat and call to violence.

I hate Trump so much.

[Garrett78]

16. A brief history of the ugly treatment whistleblowers have received:

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/26/whistleblower-identity-ukraine-history-of-retaliation-228324

Since the beginning of whistleblowing in America, government whistleblowers who put their name and face on their revelations have not fared well, particularly those from the intelligence community. They are typically tarred in the media, often prosecuted and almost inevitably fired and blackballed from further government service. “So far as I’m aware, from [Daniel] Ellsberg to the present day, there hasn't been a single case in which a genuine whistleblower who exposed major problems in the intelligence community has experienced anything other than retaliation,” Patrick Eddington, a former CIA employee who revealed that his agency and the military were covering up U.S. soldiers’ exposure to toxins during the 1991 Iraq War, told me. Especially in an unstable, emotionally charged, politically polarized era like the one in which the current whistleblower is operating, government truth-tellers are all too easily vilified as traitors, deflecting attention from the problems they are attempting to reveal.

[spanone]

17. Why is he not under federal protection?

[orleans]

19. yep

"60 Minutes," which first obtained the letter, originally reported that the contents suggested the whistleblower was under federal protection. However, lawyer Mark S. Zaid in a statement to The Hill said the news outlet "completely misinterpreted the contents of our letter."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/whistleblower-in-ukraine-scandal-under-federal-protection-report/ar-AAI1UOo

[yaesu]

20. we must remember that money in politics gives monsters like the orange nazi protection

and allows such monsters to be installed as dictators. Capitalism will destroy democracies.

[George II]

21. Let's hope he/she gets protection before Giuliani sics his dogs on the whistle blower.