Whistleblowers? We Don't Need No Steenkin' Whistleblowers!

One of history's main whistleblowers, Daniel(Pentagon Papers) Ellsberg has stated, "All the crimes Nixon committed against me are now legal."

Nixon's dirty tricks teams burglarized the office of Ellsburg's psychiatrist looking for material with which to discredit him. They also installed unauthorized wire-taps, utilized the CIA to act against an American citizen and authorized a hit squad to incapacitate Ellsburg on the steps of the Capitol building on May 3, 1971.
"But under George W. Bush and Barack Obama, with the PATRIOT Act, the FISA Amendment Act, and (for the hit squad) President Obama's executive orders. (These acts) have all become legal."


Ellsburg, a former military analyst who worked as a civilian for the Pentagon, noted that Obama has tried to use the Espionage Act to silence whistleblowers -- as did Nixon.