With ukraine what is a whistleblower and what about ukraine lets call in rally a retired f. B. I. Special agent and former Minneapolis DivisionLegal Counsel she was a whistleblower about the f. B. I. s preening 11 failures testifying to the joint Intelligence Committee inquiry the Senate Judiciary committee and the Inspector General staff of the department of justice she was named along with 2 other corporate whistleblowers as time magazines 2002 persons of the year colleen how uncomfortable did it get for you when you have followed your conscience by speaking out about 911 failures where yes shunned. Well actually in my case it took 4 senators. Grassley lazy and our 2 minnesota senators to. Begged the attorney general and the f. B. I. Director not to fire me and so i did i was able to hang on to retirement and a pension but thats about what it takes it takes a lot because when youre standing alone revealing fraud waste and abuse the classic case of. Telling truth to power the classic case its very uncomfortable very difficult in often times people go to jail for trying to get the truth out while the person who was at one point the most senior in bassett or in the entire state department was testifying on friday at the impeachment hearings President Trump was trashing her on twitter in real time is that what you call witness intimidation. Well in the case of that ukraine gate whistle blow worse it is not the classic speaking truth to power for starters theres more than one theres several ambassador Taylor Curran all then men and they are all standing together or frankly i kind of see it the opposite way as if trump is actually the whistleblower because he has criticized the Intelligence Community its well known from even the start that theyve been against him and he has you know criticized in some cases rightly so so you can see this from different angles and its not at all the classic case of the tipster who got it started is not even relevant because he did not know the facts and now all of these new people that are testifying as cooperate in witnesses are more like the whistleblower that you would you would talk about because theyre the ones revealing the information back at that helsinki summit President Trump stood alongside president putin and said he takes his putins word regarding Russian Election meddling over the assessment of United States intelligence professionals and in the opening round of impeachment hearings on the wednesday we began with republican devon noon yesterday meaning members of the Foreign Service you served your country a long time colleen how durable is more raul among career Civil Servants. That this president and his lockstep Congressional Republicans followers put down as the deep state. Well i think morale had to have suffered long before trump you know when the cia was engaged in torture our own military members now are speaking about against the endless wars so you do have a number of people in government and i think it started long maybe tromp is kind of a combination of lower morale i know in the f. B. I. Right now youre seeing investigations of the highest levels of call me and mccabe and some people were fired and so obviously morale is pretty low because your pride of being a part of that entity suffers when these but very bad things happen and what a lot of americans might not understand about career Civil Servants is that they transcend that they span administrations they dont tend to be partisan correct. Well thats kind of changed if you saw those tweets and tax between straka and page in the f. B. I. They were very partisan in my day before i retired in 2004 we couldnt even utter a word about a party or a candidate because the at the i was under the strongest form of the hatch act but it looks like some of that has changed now and i think the whole country is so polarized and this has obviously spread into Government Service well im glad you mentioned that because there are laws and President Trump has disparaged the oficial ian name Government Employees we call the whistleblower as unpatriotic at one point he said it disgraced some on the right have all heard the name they suspect is the whistle blower arguably risking the safety of his or her life and family colleen for that reason isnt naming names illegal. Actually retaliation against a whistleblower is illegal most of the people testifying now who actually have information sometimes 2nd and 3rd hand but sometimes even 1st hand information they are not that original whistleblower the original whistleblower or we would call a tipster and he he merely got the ball rolling it turns out that his information wasnt even it wasnt firsthand and a lot of it was not even valid so in court a tipsters identity legally can remain secret because youre not important the cooperating witnesses that are testifying venom and tail are void of all these other ones then their identity is known and so as i said from the start this is not at all im all for protection of whistle wars we have a law i have a lot of friends who who went through hell to tell the truth sometimes even went to jail and im very much in favor of protecting corporate and government was a wars but this current case is not at all on par with the classic case of telling truth to power take us inside the life of a Civil Servant see im going to work every day on metro on the subway here working for uncle sam who are these people flush them out. I think the majority are good decent people and just as with the military they join government in order to make a difference to serve the public going back to whistleblowing this is why if you ever spot an instance of fraud waste and abuse by a superior the normal good decent Government Employee does not want to work in that situation they dont want to be a part of it and thats why whistleblower protection is necessary in government theyve had a difficult difficult time for 4 decades and trying to actually effect that we had f. B. I. Laboratory whistleblower who practically had a nervous breakdown because he was trying to say that the f. B. I. Lab while he was right he was absolutely right the f. B. I. Lab was not even accredited and yet he was. Shunned and forced out except so the good employee wants to keep improving Public Service unfortunately theres a lot of people in power that have different agendas and in some cases they actually are engaging in fraud waste abuse illegal actions lets just take the case of the cia torture what would you do if you were a good cia or an f. B. I. Employee we actually had some like that who were witnessing their government commit the most egregious terrible acts of torture what can you do i mean youre really in a very bad place this ukraine gate situation is not at all the same because you have for starters you have all of your Intelligence Community on the side of the whistleblowers theyve signed petitions are 100 or more of them have signed brennan clapper all of these very powerful intelligence people have signed petitions supporting the whistleblower thats very very unusual thats that already should cause people to start thinking about this its not at all classic case sure going to speak volumes thank you Coleen Rowley appreciate your perspective on this. Important and developing story coming up after President Trumps awkward oval office encounter with turkish president air to one where does our relationship stand and thanksgiving came early for cord cutters this is the big picture on our t. America. Illo. 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Its as though hes saying someone signed your name to this crazy letter im getting that i just wanted you to see it authenticated but contrary to popular rumor which i attributed to fake news it was not balled up and thrown into the trash is that a reprint of another or reprint of the meeting reportedly took a turn when air to one surprise trump by whipping out its i pad to show them a video depicting kurds as terrorists whereupon senator Lindsey Graham got hot reportedly asking the turkish president well you want me to go get the kurds to make won about what youve done after which oddly graham then blocked Senate Consideration of a House Resolution blaming turkey for the Armenian Genocide michel that was 1915 why now and what is this accomplish what an annual thing virtually in the congress and every every individual who created who criticizes turkey for the one 915. 00 atrocity in armenia claims that they would vote for genocide but once they get in office like Biden Clinton and others they they dont vote for it and i dont think its going to come the house has voted on it i dont think the senate will but if it happens its a nonbinding resolution. Psychologically for the turks if that passes it will send shutters and i wouldnt doubt that in rip reprisal. Area one would shut down air insular care base a very critical piece for us ouch also president senator ted cruz who released a statement saying turkeys assault against our kurdish allies who have a long history of standing with america against our enemies is absolutely on its up to paul i also made it clear to president won that so long as turkey continues to a procure or deploy the s 400 air Defense System from russia the u. S. Will not sell f. 35 fighter jets to turkey and unpack that well its its its pretty stupid because its a standoff at this point but you and what trump has done this basically kick the can technically sanctions could be imposed right now because turkey has acquired the system what trump has basically said is only if you deploy will we cut you off now he has not resume he suspended f. 35. 00 cooperation which has prompted a lot of putin of russia to offer. Additional s. 400 and and joint production of the s 500 as well as sukhoi 30 fives in response to the f. 35 however i think and you say youll see air to one now plane both in both both ends against the middle no kid oh yeah hes playing them both off and the reason for that is that hes trying to buy time why is he trying to buy time hes trying to buy time because hes concerned about the state of his own economy at this point his economy is almost in the toilet well he ran saying he was going to pump it up when he was Prime Minister number of times and then as president he promised to raise the economy and trump has threatened to destroy the economy if with sanctions so hes hes walk. In the thin line at the same time hes also holding out for Something Else and because of the economy hes hes working with china very closely with the b r i the bit belt Road Initiative and hes the linking now whats called the middle Corridor Initiative which is a whole series of highways and railways between china and europe and theyre all going through anatolia and that is turkey and so hell make lots of money off of that itll help the economy but in terms of Foreign Investment direct investment its gone down markedly from the United States even in europe but its beginning to rise from china and so hes holding out and trying to do better on the economy and thats thats thats where i think hes playing this balancing act but hes walking a tight rope very much whole economic corridor there is not denominated in u. S. Dollars so its not legit keeping us up to speed on this Michael Maloof thank you for stepping into the big picture thank you always appreciate your perspective its beginning to look a lot like christmas everywhere you go and again this year tech gifts will be under the tree in its annual holiday tech spending forecast the Consumer Technology association is forecasting 97100000000. 00 in murcia and if your center is stumped youll want to hear their survey data on gifts we hope to receive this year we will tell all one else on our black friday show and this week a sneak peek at one item that is new to the gift list something that will be much appreciated and requires no gadget savvy to shop for 4 in 10 adults surveyed plan to give subscriptions to streaming Video Services and every thinking netflix youre only scratching the surface there is an all out war going on and Major Players like a t. And t. Comcast and disney are weighing in with a dizzying array of options here to help us sort it out is invested in. Journalist ben swan ben 30 percent of netflix subscribers surveyed by the wall street journal say theyre likely to cancel in the next 3 months to make way for new services so the incumbents are bracing for the challengers thumbnail the Major Players for us yet so this is really interesting because when you say streaming everyone thinks netflix right thats the one that youre going to like scotch tape absolutely it almost becomes a name brand but when you look at all the others that are emerging now of course the biggest being disney plus just coming along apple plus is now releasing their new form of apple t. V. Which really is pretty content poor at this point as opposed to disney which is so much content they have so much stuff they dont even know what to do with it all in d. C. Universe will be releasing theirs within the next few years and as part of that theyre taking the office from netflix and theyre put into the into their own streaming service the number one show by the way on netflix is the office so its a pretty significant deal there there are a lot of different choices here and thats just for original content streaming were not even talking about all the sports options that are also a part of the streaming process like e. S. P. N. Plus fox sports everybodys got their own now the problem that youre running into is when you talk about cable right remember the whole issue with cable i have 200 or 500 channels and nothing on t. V. Right problem well were kind of getting to that point with streaming youve got so many options and you have people say well i may have 10000 titles on netflix but lets see what there is on h. B. O. Now which also by the way is about to release a whole new streaming platform called h. B. O. Max and then of course they are not near as large in terms of the content library but its premium content i mean amazon prime and the return on the investment is worth it just for the Free Shipping but i open up their video menu and it is as intimidating as netflix i end up retreating back to directv because i just cant decide if there is an abundance of choice to lemon out there and theyre there really is and whats really interesting about amazon because amazon prime probably has. Some of the least best content now theyve had a few hits you know jack ryan is one of the shows has done very well however what amazon also has these