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A Real Swamp

Recently while in the Boston area, my daughter and I were walking my daughter’s dog. We happened upon a pond that was covered in green slime. Yuck! I thought, “How can something which was designed to be so perfect be so ugly?” As I pointed to it my daughter said, “We do not let anyone or anything go anywhere near that swamp; No dogs; No children. Everyone knows that it is far from what it should be, but nobody is incentivized to do anything. It just goes on, year after year. What a mess! Those in the town government refer to it as a pond, but we know that it is closer to a swamp! I wish that those in power would actually get a closer look at this. If someone in the town government was honest and objective, he would call it what it really is . . . a swamp! Then perhaps, it could be remedied . . . perhaps they would do what needs to be done . . . to drain the swamp.”

When we had finished our walk, I sat down and began to read about the latest out of Washington. A whistleblower complaint against President Trump alleges that Trump broke the law during a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky but apparently the person making the complaint was “not a direct witness” to the wrongdoing that he claimed Trump had committed. Wow! This sounded simplistically similar to that game of “telephone” that the young children play. It appeared worse than the “he said, she said game” that the Democrats recently have insisted on playing. This version is “he said that she said that he apparently said.” How could this nonsense pass for anything close to credible in D.C.? 

News flash! Apparently the intelligence community between May 2018 and August 2019 secretly eliminated a requirement that whistleblowers provide direct first-hand knowledge of alleged wrongdoings. A new whistleblower complaint form now does not require potential whistleblowers who wish to have their concerns expedited to Congress to have direct, first-hand knowledge of the alleged wrongdoing they are reporting. A previous version of the whistleblower complaint form declared that any complaint must contain only first-hand knowledge of alleged wrongdoing and that complaints that provide only hearsay, rumor, or gossip would be rejected. The new version of the whistleblower complaint form allows employees to file complaints even if they have zero direct knowledge of underlying evidence and only “heard about” wrongdoing from others. 

Does this sound suspicious to anybody other than me? The intelligence community recently changes the rules concerning whistleblowers, and then, “out of the blue,” President Trump is accused of something by someone that supposedly who had no direct knowledge of what was actually said. Hmmm! To me this looks like another swamp that should be drained! The difference however is that this one is the real swamp . . . and it stinks!

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