AT&T WhistleBlower Was Never Invited To Testify

said by Matt:

I've got to admit, this guy has a big, brass set of 'em. He's lucky he wasn't found with a bullet in the back of his head in an alley. I wouldn't put that past the NSA or AT&T.

However - and maybe I'm drinking the governmental Kool-Aid here - but perhaps the information he has isn't that damaging at all and the investigative organization has found out all they need to know?

It sounds more like he's whining because he's no longer in the spotlight.

said by P Ness:

dont need to kill anyone anymore...just pay off congress and the president to give you immunity

said by Matt:

However - and maybe I'm drinking the governmental Kool-Aid here - but perhaps the information he has isn't that damaging at all and the investigative organization has found out all they need to know?

It sounds more like he's whining because he's no longer in the spotlight.

said by wifi4milez:

This guy is just pissed because the media has stopped asking him for interviews, and his phone has stopped ringing.

He probably lost a contract to do some cheesy "made for TV" movie, and he clearly regrets leaving his cushy job at ATT.

Once it became clear that his claims of "illegal" and "evil" activity werent true

said by fatness:

Source?
Source?
Source?

said by wifi4milez:

This guy is just pissed because the media has stopped asking him for interviews, and his phone has stopped ringing.

He probably lost a contract to do some cheesy "made for TV" movie, and he clearly regrets leaving his cushy job at ATT.

Once it became clear that his claims of "illegal" and "evil" activity werent true

said by wifi4milez:

I actually agree with you on this one. This guy is just pissed because the media has stopped asking him for interviews, and his phone has stopped ringing. He probably lost a contract to do some cheesy "made for TV" movie, and he clearly regrets leaving his cushy job at ATT. I dont think any company in the industry will be jumping at the chance to hire a person like him either. Furthermore, all his wild claims seem to have fallen by the wayside, and almost everyone (from all parties) has withdrawn their support of his allegations. Once it became clear that his claims of "illegal" and "evil" activity werent true, most intelligent people lost interest in him.

said by JakCrow:

Can you point to these "all parties" that have withdrawn their support?

said by wifi4milez:

Certainly. Republicans and Democrats. Given that over 90% of our elected politicians fall into those two groups, I would say this guy has lost all his support.

said by JakCrow:

What a ridiculous statement.

said by wifi4milez:

Why, is there some mysterious 3rd party (that nobody knows about yet has hundreds of millions of members) that is throwing their full support behind this guy? Ohhhh, I know. It must be the Free Masons since they have secretly infiltrated our political system. I hate to break it to you, but the Republicans and Democrats ARE the majority politcal parties in the US today. This guy no longer has any support from anyone, and thankfully so.

said by JakCrow:

Can you point to these "all parties" that have withdrawn their support? All that has been established is he is a whistle genital blower on a significant issue and a congress after the democrats were pleasured by him that they just rolled over and went back to sleeping at the wheel. *Shock*! Your assumption has little basis in reality.

said by lesopp:

Made some corrections for you.

said by lesopp:

But I learned that from you master.

said by wifi4milez:

Once it became clear that his claims of "illegal" and "evil" activity werent true, most intelligent people lost interest in him.

said by KrK:

BS. They're true all right. As for the intelligent people, well, they're on the side of exposing the truth.

said by wifi4milez:

Can you reference a single person being arrested, convicted, or sentenced for this alleged crime?

said by Skippy25:

You are so right.... they are so innocent in what they have done that they need congress to pass a bill to "protect" them from doing nothing wrong.

If they did nothing wrong then they should have no problem allowing their actions to play out in court.

Bingaman offers a different solution. Hitching his amendment to the anti-amnesty argument (.pdf) that Congress should not approve what it did not understand, Bingaman proposes that the court cases and amnesty powers all are put on hold, until three months after the joint report by the Inspectors General of the various intelligence services complete their report to Congress on just what transpired between the nation's telecoms and the intelligence services.

If Congress is disturbed by the report -- due a year from the day the bill becomes law, it has time to undo or tweak the rules; otherwise, it can just leave amnesty provisions to come into effect three months after the report to Congress (both public and classified).

Progressive author and lawyer Glenn Greenwald, who writes for Salon.com, and blogger Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake, are spearheading the effort. They've hired the political media consultants behind a historic Ron Paul online fundraising drive to organize a similar "moneybomb," set to go off Aug. 8.

"That is the day Richard Nixon resigned, and the idea is that 35 years ago when you did this kind of stuff, you were forced out of office, and now congress drops everything to make your crimes legal," says Hamsher in an interview.

The campaign marks a milestone in the evolution of online grassroots organizing. The PAC is cherry-picking the tactics and tools that proved most successful in the presidential primary campaigns, and is using them to corral online support for the single issue of domestic spying. The PAC's money pay for advertisements in the districts of the House Democrats who voted for the spy bill -- potentially causing problems for those capitulating on the Bush wiretapping program.