WHISTLEBLOWERS AND DICTATORS
CurryforAmerica.com
Probably all presidents from time to time have daydreamed about how delightful governing the United States would be, if only they had imperial, dictatorial powers. Two have actually tried to govern that way, by evading Congress and circumventing the Constitution: Presidents Nixon and Obama, for instance.
Countering this accumulation of presidential power is a small group who believe that they have every right to circumvent the rules of our constitutional government. They are called Whistleblowers. They take an oath to protect the nation’s secrets by their silence, but at some point they feel that they have the right to betray that oath.
Evidently these whistleblowers believe that they are a better judge of when and how an oath can or should be broken than a Cabinet Secretary who has been nominated for his position by the President and examined and approved by the U.S. Senate.
Since their actions are a betrayal of and violate both the word and spirit of the law and of governing, any examination of a whistleblower’s motives should begin by setting aside petty party politics. Whistleblowing should not be about one party scoring political points over the other party. It should be about protecting the nation’s security.
In the process of protecting the secrets of the nation, is there any policy or action so egregious that it justifies betrayal of the oath of silence? Possibly yes, but not until all other remedies are exhausted, including a visit to the Office of the Inspector General or a request to speak privately to the boss. Only after these kinds of efforts fail to produce results should a member of the government consider betraying his oath.
President Nixon assembled and employed a clique of political hit men who were blindly loyal to him instead of to the Constitution or to “We the People.” Eventually this led to a political enemy’s hit list and the abuses of Watergate, followed by impeachment proceedings. The current Administration seems determined to repeat all of these failings, including impeachment. But we can be assured that there is a “Deep Throat” whistleblower hunched over in a dungeon somewhere waiting to be unleashed.
Nixon’s secretary, Rose Mary Woods, lost, erased and destroyed audio tapes that would have incriminated Nixon in Watergate. President Obama’s entire Administration routinely loses and destroys tapes and emails and brags about it openly. At the same time, requests from Congress to the White House for information are publicly ignored.
The Justice Department, under Attorney General Eric Holder, openly defies the law, the Constitution and Congress in its efforts to advance the Obama agenda and cover up the Administration’s wrong doing. President Nixon tried to get the Justice Department to defy the law and support his efforts to circumvent Congress. Fortunately he was unsuccessful. Almost anywhere this administration is ripe for a whistleblower to perfect his blowing.
Nixon and his hit men tried their best to intimidate journalists into being part of the White House Watergate cover up or to at least not write negative or defamatory stories about the President. Washington Journalists and elites are openly on President Obama’s side and vigorously working to cover up his mistakes and misstatements. Still, the White House threatens them to keep them in line and openly rooting for the President.
This is about a dictatorial president who is trying to amass enough power so that he is able to destroy all opposition. In short, Obama does whatever he wants. Anyone who opposes him is branded a racist, marked for destruction and put on the IRS’s and the President’s enemies list. Such actions are reminiscent of those of a Third World dictator.
Nixon tried unsuccessfully to block law suits that fingered him as a perpetrator. Obama openly ignores Congress and blocks law suits that could implicate him and his Administration in wrong doing. When he isn’t ignoring or belittling Congress, he’s mocking or defying it. He made this clear in his recent Jacksonville, Florida speech. The President said: “I’m going to act on my own. I won’t wait for Congress.” And: “We’re going to do everything we can, wherever we can, with or without Congress.”
President Obama is trying to redefine America’s government, and in so doing is rewriting the Constitution. The danger is that if the Democrats win the election next year and end up controlling the House, Senate and White House, a few will probably try to find a way to elect Obama to a Third Term. Could that be followed by a “President for Life” effort?
It is time the Supreme Court and the Congress woke up and realized that there are no longer three separate and equal branches of government. Now there is only one supreme branch of government led by a White House dictator. What fertile ground for a whistleblower
The not-so-supreme judiciary and the Capital Hill crowd have unwittingly become presidential spittoons.