Rep. Darrell Issa — Who Says Investigating Wikileaks Is A Priority — Sets Up His Own Whistleblower Site

Politics

from the say-what-now? dept

There seems to be a bit of confusion among the new leadership in the House concerning just what Wikileaks does. Just over a week ago or so, we noted that Rep. Darrell Issa, who is heading the “oversight committee” had declared that investigating Wikileaks was a major priority for Congress, because if the US government didn’t attack back at Wikileaks, the world would “laugh” at how the US had become a “paper tiger.”

And yet… days later, Issa has announced his very own “whistleblower” site, in which he’s asking government officials and the public to blow the whistle on government fraud and abuse.

This is, apparently, not a joke.

So he’s attacking Wikileaks — which does the same thing, asking people to highlight fraud and abuse worldwide — and then sets up his own website to do the same thing. Maybe he just didn’t want the competition? Of course, some will point out that there are serious differences. Wikileaks releases certain things it receives publicly. It’s not at all clear what Issa will do with whatever he receives. Of course, that seems to make Wikileaks seem like a lot more effective solution if you’re really trying to expose government fraud and abuse.

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