Publius Tacitus — Was this a Soft Coup?

Mr. Nunes received information earlier this week from a whistleblower, but not you typical whistleblower. The "normal" whistleblower takes information, usually classified, to a member of the press in order to bring attention to wrong doing or lies by the government. He or she goes outside of channels. In this regard the Nunes' whistleblower is different. This person passed classified material to a person cleared for the classified material, i.e. Nunes [as chair of the House Intelligence Committee].…

… there will be more information coming out today that will buttress the claims Nunes made earlier this week. This could be the start of the worm turning and former member of the Obama intelligence community and White House staff could find themselves facing legal peril.….

Who is lawyering up?

Sic Semper Tyrannis 

Was this a Soft Coup?

Publius Tacitus

Free Thought Project — BREAKING: RT’s Bank Accounts Frozen, Assange’s Internet Cut In Apparent Move to Silence West’s Critics

Desperation takes hold. The sunshine is too much.

Free Thought Project
BREAKING: RT’s Bank Accounts Frozen, Assange’s Internet Cut In Apparent Move to Silence West’s Critics

The "state actor" that cut off Assange's internet access was apparently Ecuador. Speculation is that the US pressured President Correa. Ecuador uses the USD and is a currency user in the dollar zone.

Zero Hedge
Wikileaks Provides An Update On The Assange Internet Outage

Yves Smith — “John Doe’s Manifesto”: Panama Papers Source Blasts Lack of Media Interest, Calls for Prosecutions, Whistleblower Protection

Martha r flagged a new story at Suddeusche Zeitung from “John Doe,” the source for the Mossack Fonseca revelations, on what he intended to accomplish and what he feels needs to be done. I’m posting on his manifesto to encourage you to read it in full and circulate it.
The whistleblower, John Doe, states his underlying objective was to tackle “massive, pervasive corruption” that promotes and perpetuates income inequality. He is encouraged by the debate so far but stresses that the underlying behavior was criminal and needs to be treated as such:

Looks like the perps are just going to get another pass.

“John Doe’s Manifesto”: Panama Papers Source Blasts Lack of Media Interest, Calls for Prosecutions, Whistleblower Protection
Yves Smith

Norman Solomon — Assange and Democracy’s Future

Democracy rests on citizens getting real facts and applying rational analysis. The ability of governments, including the U.S. government, to suppress facts and thus manage perceptions represents the opposite, a power over the people that WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange threatened, says Norman Solomon.

Why Assange, Snowden, Manning and other investigative journalists and government whistleblowers like them are patriotic heroes rather than the traitors and criminals the US government makes them out to be. It was people like this that dared to confront the King of England and his army in declaring independence

Consortium News
Assange and Democracy’s FutureNorman Solomon, executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy