[Peace-discuss] Rand Paul: "My question made no reference to any whistleblower…"

[Robert Naiman]

Is Rand Paul getting slimed? Did he ask an "illegal question"?

How can something be "top secret" and "common knowledge among reporters and
editors" at the same time?

"Top secret": a bunch of people are calling for Rand Paul to be arrested
for allegedly "violating the whistleblower law," so much so that "arrest
Rand Paul" trended on Twitter. [Experts in the whistleblower law say there
is no basis for this claim, that indeed Rand Paul is exercising his First
Amendment rights so long as he's using information available to any U.S.
citizen who looks for it, which there is no evidence that he is not doing.]

"Common knowledge among reporters and editors" - apparently the name that
Rand Paul used in his question is such common knowledge among reporters and
editors as a suspected identity of "the whistleblower" that they feel
comfortable *reporting *that Rand Paul tried to "out the whistleblower" by
asking a question that used this person's name, even though Rand Paul's
question made no reference to the claim that this person is "the
whistleblower."

How can both these things be true at the same time?

As Rand Paul referenced in his remarks at the c-span clip below, the people
screaming about the whistleblower law now are the same gang who took away
the passport of NSA whistleblower Ed Snowden and refuse to give it back.

Is Rand Paul getting slimed? Judge for yourself.

"We are all Spartacus."

https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1222985993772589057

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