Bill Taylor seems like a sympathetic figure. But he also didn't sound the alarm or take any steps to alert the public to the president's efforts to corrupt foreign policy until the whistleblower forced everything out into the open. There's a lesson here.
Taylor could've exposed a bunch of misconduct months ago. But he was new on the job, cares about Ukraine, and suddenly finds himself standing athwart this terrible extortion plot, so he tries to stop it from within.
The national security adviser is on his side, it comes down to the wire, but he wins. Aid flows. No shakedown. Easy to imagine him thinking, ’OK, things got really dicey, but I got things back on the rails, and I better stick around to keep them there.”
If Taylor's silence is understandable, even sympathetic, think of all the well meaning people in key government jobs around the world trying hard to keep things on the rails who are sitting on secrets because they think they’ve prevailed to stop some hideous corruption.
There is a lot left to learn, and we can't just cross our fingers and hope that whistleblowers come forward to expose all of it.
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