Thread by @kurteichenwald

1. It remains amazing to me that the Trump Administration - through the lawbreaking of @ODNIgov Joseph Maguire - has blown up the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act, and so few in the media seem to understand the significance of this. Whatever Trump or some....

@ODNIgov 2..other click-y name did is far less important than the fact that Maguire - through arrogance, stupidity or criminality - has singlehandedly destroyed the protection hammered out over decades to allow for wrongdoing in the intelligence world to be communicated to oversight...

@ODNIgov 3...if some president orders the CIA to assassinate, say, a top french government official, there is NOTHING in place now that will protect a whistleblower from disclosing this to anyone. If Congress is not told, and the political appointees sign off on it, any abuse of the...

@ODNIgov 4...intelligence community - exercised through the complete knowledge that there is little chance of being reported unless someone wants to risk everything - can be undertaken so long as the politicians in power support it.

Maguire should go down in history as the man who...

@ODNIgov 5...simply to curry favor with the current occupant of the White House, undermined the oversight of the intelligence agencies forever. If he can so easily break the law - refusing to turn over to Congress a report deemed urgent by the IG, handing it instead to the White House....

@ODNIgov 6...and political appointees, who then launch attacks on a whistleblower WHEN THEY DONT EVEN KNOW WHO IT IS YET, everything has been undermined. And, to be honest, I have a feeling they DO know who it is, since Maguire has shown himself willing to break the law, Im sure if...

@ODNIgov 7...asked, the @ODNIgov, in his flatulent stupidity that will go down in history as one of the most cowardly acts to undermine government, has likely bowed his head saying "yes sir, yes sir, three bags full. Here is the name of the person who filed this report anonymously."...

@ODNIgov 8...there is no one in this rogues gallery that deserves more contempt or public shunning than @ODNIgov Maguire. Intelligence officers put their lives on the line for us. Maguire wouldn't even risk making Trump mad. The people who serve, Maguire, deserve a better leader than you.