Na Norman Horomona
Ko te whakawākanga o te āpiha CIA o mua a Jeffrey Sterling, ka timata i te waenganui o Hanuere, kei te hanga hei whawhai nui i roto i te whakapae a te kawanatanga o Amerika ki te whistleblowing. Na tana whakamahi i te Ture Espionage ki te whakawehi me te whakawakanga i nga tangata mo nga riipene i roto i nga waahi "haumarutanga motu", ka whakatau te whakahaere a Obama ki te huna tonu i nga korero nui e whai mana nui ana te iwi ki te mohio.
Whai muri i nga korero poto mo te whakapae a Sterling i nga tau e wha ki muri, he iti noa nga mahi a te hunga panui korero ki te whakamarama i tana keehi - i etahi wa ka tuku korero mo te whakahē a New York Times te kairipoata a James Risen ki te whakaatu mo te mea he puna a Sterling mo tana pukapuka 2006 "State of War."
He mea whakamīharo te tū a Risen mō te noho muna o ngā mātāpuna. I taua wa ano, ko Sterling - e pa ana ki nga whiu hara 10 e uru ana ki te whitu i raro i te Ture Tutei - kaore e iti ake te tautoko.
He mea nui nga whakakitenga mai i te hunga maia mo te whakaae a te hunga whakahaere. I runga i ana riri, kei te whawhai te Tari Ture a Obama mo o tatou mana manapori kia nui ake te mohio mo nga mahi a te kawanatanga i nga korero whaimana. Koia te take he mea nui te tukinga o te rūma kooti i te keehi o “United States of America v. Jeffrey Alexander Sterling”.
Kei te whakapaehia a Sterling mo te korero ki a Risen mo te mahi a CIA i tukuna he mahere patu karihi ki a Iran i te tau 2000. Ko nga utu kaore i te pono.
Engari kaore tetahi e tautohetohe ana i korero a Sterling ki nga kaimahi o te Komiti Maramataka a te Senate mo te mahi a CIA, i tapaina ko Operation Merlin, na te pukapuka a Risen i whakaatu i muri mai ka puta mai he wahangu me te kino. Ahakoa e whai ana ki te aukati i te tipu karihi, ka tupono te CIA ki te ahu whakamua.
I tana whakamohio atu ki nga kaimahi o te komiti tirotiro a te Senate mo Operation Merlin, kei te haere a Sterling ki roto i nga hongere hei kaikawe korero. Ko te mea pea i mohio ia ko te mahi pera ka whakapataritari i te hierarchy CIA. Tekau ma rua tau i muri mai, i te wa e whakatika ana te kawanatanga mo tetahi huihuinga rūma kooti, kua tae ki te wa utu i roto i te keokeonga-haumaru.
Ko te whakawakanga koretake o Sterling e whai ana i nga kaipahua karekau he korero tino nui: Kaua e hurahia nga mea ngaro "haumarutanga motu" e ahua kino ana te kawanatanga o Amerika, he kino, he kino, he kino ranei. Kaua rawa e whakaaro.
Na te nui o te raru, te petihana hou "Ko te Whakatangihia te Whistle on Government Recknessness is a Public Service, Not a Crime" neke atu i te 30,000 nga hainatanga i roto i nga wiki tata nei, me te akiaki i te kawanatanga kia whakakorea nga whakapae katoa mo Sterling. Ko nga kaitautoko tuatahi ko te ExposeFacts, ko te Freedom of the Press Foundation, ko te Kaupapa Kaute a te Kawanatanga, Ko te Nation, Ko te Haere tonu / Center for Media and Democracy, Reporters Without Borders and RootsAction.org. (He Whakakahoretanga: Kei te mahi ahau mo ExposeFacts me RootsAction.)
Kua whakarāpopotohia e te kaiwhiuwhiu a te Pentagon Papers a Daniel Ellsberg te horopaki o nga mahi a te kawanatanga i roto i te whakawakanga Sterling. "Ko te raru o Sterling i ahu mai i tetahi rautaki hei whakawehi i nga kaikorero korero, ahakoa ko ia te putake o tenei rii, kaore ranei," ko ta Ellsberg i korero i roto i te uiui mo tetahi tuhinga Ko taua kairīpoata a Marcy Wheeler me māua i tuhi mā Ko te Nation. “Ko te whainga ko te whiu i te hunga whakararu ki te whakatoi, whakatumatuma, whakapae, tau i roto i te kooti me te whareherehere pea — ahakoa kua haere noa ratou ma nga huarahi whai mana ki te rehita whakapae mo o ratou rangatira me o raatau umanga. Arā, he whakatūpato whai kiko ki te hunga e hiahia ana ki te whai i nga ture. Engari ahakoa he aha, ko wai te tino puna korero ki te panui korero mo nga takahi hara o te Whakatikatika Tuawha, i roto i te keehi NSA, i te koretake ranei, i roto i te keehi CIA, he mahi nui ta raatau mahi.
E tika ana kia whakanuia, kia tautoko kaha hoki taua mahi nui mo te iwi.
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Ko Norman Solomon te kaiwhakahaere matua o te Institute for Public Accuracy and the author of "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spining Us to Death." Ko ia te kaiwhakarewa o RootsAction.org.
