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clearances. The idea backed by Vice President Al Gore was to reduce the size of the Federal government
ton Administration in 1996 had privatized background checks for government employees requiring security clearances. The idea backed by Vice President Al Gore was to reduce the size of the Federal government by outsourcing investigating the backgrounds of millions of government applicants for jobs. The task
om spies. In many cases, whistle-blowers have accomplices that help them carry out their mission. For example, in 1969, the celebrated whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst at the RAND Corporation, had an accomplice, Anthony Russo, who also had worked at RAND. (Both were indicted by the government.) A
private, but continues to laud him for the media. Gore Vidal has no such restraint. On a television prog
rom an ACLU official to a Peabody Award- winning journalist to members of the intelligence community who knew that sort of thing actually does go on. Daniel Ellsberg said, “Maybe it was just because | wanted to believe it so badly.” One caller claimed that he could determine, by feeding the article into a compute
Bystander_#4 JAN 17.indd
: Where to begin? Personally, for me, it goes back to when George Bush won the presidency in 2000. That was due to the electoral college, even though Al Gore had won the popular vote. That same time, Hillary Clinton was elected Senator. She announced, publicly, the first thing she was going to do was get
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023638 →was due to the electoral college, even though Al Gore had won the popular vote. That same time, Hillar
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023638 →piece, there were people who claimed to remember a pho- tograph! (laughs) People who said they believed the article, if only for a moment, included Daniel Ellsberg, who released The Pen- 2“Trump’s Presidency is Doomed,” The Washington Post, January 16, 2017. tagon Papers. He said the reason he be- lieved it, w
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023642 →Entities connected to both Al Gore and Daniel Ellsberg

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