The Broken Whistle: Exposing a Deep State Run Amok
The Deep State: US Government executive branch bureaucrats, both political appointees and civil servants, who violate the law through their efforts to implement their own will, ways, and desires above their sworn duties to uphold the US Constitution. Aided and abetted by the failure of the United States Congress to use their oversight powers to uphold the rule of law.
On 23 February and 26 May 2022, I was interviewed about my whistleblower stories. A long story that begins with the CIA taking reprisals against me and denying me due process to adjudicate EEO and PPD-19 reprisals for reporting wrongdoings. The 26 May link is in this text, and discusses mostly the CIA reprisals. My disclosures include revealing the weaponization of the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act (ICWPA) against President Donald J. Trump, to incite the impeachment charges. Yes, Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) Michael Atkinson did weaponize the process to target President Trump. The 23 February interview link is provided in this text, and it discusses what follows.
I served as an Intelligence Community (IC) employee for 19 years, according to my official Office of Personnel Management SF-50 form. My time as an IC employee led to my firsthand witnessing of significant violations of laws and abuses of power that US Federal laws required that I report these allegations to authorized officials through authorized channels. I did and it included several rounds of using the ICWPA process to report my allegations to Congress. My efforts to use the ICWPA process repeatedly failed with the ICIG failing on three separate occasions in 2017, 2018, and 2019, to report my firsthand allegations to Congress. After personally calling and writing to IG Atkinson in July 2018, the ICIG provided me a copy of ICIG ICWPA Form 401 dated 24 May 2018, which required “urgent concerns” to be about an “intelligence activity,” and to be “reliable first-hand knowledge,” and not be “second-hand knowledge.” The form explicitly stated that “second hand” allegations would not be processed. I called IG Atkinson’s personal work line and left a detailed message about filing ICWPAs and whistleblower reprisal complaints. I sent two faxes to IG Atkinson in addition to the emails. I also sent the faxes, emails, and a hard copy of my allegations to Department of Justice Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz in his capacity as Chairman of the “Council of the Inspectors General of Integrity and Efficiency” (CIGIE). I dropped off the materials at CIGIE and saw them receive it.
In early 2019, I resubmitted to IG Atkinson and IG Horowitz, four separate ICWPAs using Form 401 dated 24 May 2018. The IC IG refused to process my claims because they alleged I was no longer an employee. Ironically, when I was an employee, they failed to process my ICWPAs. Multiple times they failed to process my firsthand credible allegations. Essentially, the ICIG had no interest to process firsthand ICWPAs by an IC employee that alleged serious violations in the IC. By US Federal laws, the IG was compelled to process my ICWPAs.
However, in late September 2019 news broke out that IG Atkinson pushed forward a “second-hand” hearsay complaint from a non-IC employee about a non-IC activity. An allegation affecting President Donald J. Trump. The “so-called Ukraine whistleblower.” This was a serious violation of US Federal laws, not by President Trump, but by IG Atkinson. I was outraged. My own ICWPAs and allegations of reprisals never adjudicated as required by the law, but now a hit job against President Trump was underway. Therefore, I went public with a detailed Twitter thread:
My Twitter thread received significant attention from Twitter users @climateaudit and @seanmdav. The latter being Mr. Sean Davis, the co-founder of “The Federalist.” I communicated with Mr. Davis and provided a copy of Form 401 dated 24 May 2018 by forwarding the email I had received from the ICIG. I made it very clear to Mr.Davis that IG Atkinson violated the law. Highlighting to him the Department Of Justice Office of Legal Counsel Memorandum concluding that the “so-called Ukraine whistleblower” had no ICWPA standing and its claims were not about an activity under the jurisdiction of the Director of National Intelligence or the ICIG. On 27 September 2019, “The Federalist” published a news article written by Mr. Davis with the following title: “Intel Community Secretly Gutted Requirement Of First-Hand Whistleblower Knowledge,” and accessible in the hyperlinked text.
My revelation of the changes in the policies, procedures, and the form caused a serious uproar. Political operatives and surrogates on the left went nuts and claimed that form and changes were insignificant issues. They claimed that complaint had standing and should be immediately processed. Political operatives on the right demanded answers on why the ICIG had changed the process and used the process to target President Trump. Meanwhile, I sought answers on why the “so-called Ukraine whistleblower” received standing and assistance while all my claims never received the attention required by US Federal laws. IG Horowitz as the chair of CIGIE and his 70 plus IGs in CIGIE, immediately defended IG Atkinson calling his actions “by the book.” Well, if these IGs go by the book, they would fire themselves for their cover-up of reprisals against IC whistleblowers and their failure to uphold the rule of law and due processes whistleblowers like myself are entitled to. Consequently, when President Trump fired IG Atkinson, I once again went public defending his actions in a very detailed Twitter thread:
Ladies and gentlemen, read the facts. We do have a “Deep State Run Amok.” An army of civil servants and political appointees in the executive branch of the US Government who act as if they are above the law. Weaponizing the law against political opponents. Making up law violations against political opponents. Failing to equally apply the law. Failing to uphold their oath to “faithfully execute” their duties as executive branch employees to the best of their ability, and to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. My whistleblower complaints, to this day, remain almost entirely not investigated. One allegation was improperly investigated not adhering to the standards, policies, and procedures to adjudicate such allegations. There are violations of Constitutional Due Processes. Some of my allegations are “Civil Rights” protected disclosures which the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) willfully sought to obstruct and crush. Some details of my case can be found in an article by PJ Media, “EXCLUSIVE: Ex-IG 'Weaponized' Whistleblower Law to Impeach Trump, CIA Agent-Turned-Whistleblower Says.”
And I am not the only one with numerous press reports of other CIA and IC whistleblowers suffering the same fate. These include Daniel P. Meyer, John Reidy, Andrew Bakaj, Jonathan Kaplan, John Crane, Thomas Drake, William Binney, and others. One who significantly stands out is John Kiriakou. Wrongly prosecuted and imprisoned for reporting what we found to be serious violations of US and international laws. Former Director of CIA (D/CIA) John Brennan, reportedly ordered Mr. Kiriakou to be prosecuted. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) report on CIA’s detention and interrogation program confirms and exonerates Mr. Kiriakou. It should had been DCIA Brennan who should had been prosecuted, and not Mr. Kiriakou. Moreover, the severe resistance and bullying that I encountered in 2015 to destroy my reprisal claims and whistleblower disclosures, strongly suggest that D/CIA Brennan or his designee at a very high level, had their fingers in my case.
Despite all these outstanding and unresolved IC whistleblower issues, through the years, Republicans In Name Only (RINOs), have done absolutely nothing to correct these egregious violations of US laws. Seventeen different efforts to get the Republican chair of SSCI, Senator Richard Burr, to assist me went unanswered. A leading Republican senator in the SSCI, Senator Marco Rubio, failed to assist me despite I being a constituent. My current Senator James Lankford, also failed to assist. “The Whistle is Broken.” There are no IC whistleblower reprisal protections and no interest by US Congress to fix these problems. Edward Snowden was correct in his assessment to go public instead of subject himself to bureaucratic and legal torture by a system designed to punish those who speak up. The US Congress needs to immediately go back and correct all these alleged reprisals and wrongful prosecutions; and provide robust independent reprisal protections for IC employees and contractors. Failure to do so will continue to put US national security at risk.
Those who claim that talk of a “Deep State” is conspiratorial nonsense are devoid of knowledge and ignorant of facts. Study the issue. There are two good books written on this topic. One by former US Congressman Jason Chaffetz, “The Deep State: How an Army of Bureaucrats Protected Barack Obama and Is Working to Destroy the Trump Agenda.” And another by former Congressional staffer Mike Lofgren, “The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government.” And you can study my own case with many details uploaded in my LinkedIn profile in the employment section or pinned posts. This is the truth!
Disclaimer: This an article was created by Pedro Israel Orta Productions, LLC. A media enterprise for the sole purpose of “Speaking Truth to Power” by exposing lies through the revelation of the truth.
