Quando c’era Obama

Il contadino lo sa sì, non è mica carino di confrontare gli azioni di adesso dei politici con le parole e promesse fatte in campagna elettorale:

Protect Whistleblowers: Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance. Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government. Obama will ensure that federal agencies expedite the process for reviewing whistleblower claims and whistleblowers have full access to courts and due process.

[Protezioni agli informanti. Spesso la miglior informazione su sprechi, frodi e abuso nei governi vengono da impiegati che vogliono parlare… Atti di coraggio e patriotismo… vanno incoraggiati…. ]

Infatti, gli russi lo vogliono come premio Nobel.

PS a proposito dei Russi: loro sì che hanno capito che forse non è il massimo di riservatezza essere dipendenti di Mastercard, Visa e compagnia (americana) bella e fanno un circuito di pagamento nazionale:

Implying that Russian security services were behind this decision, Vishnyakov said, “There is some secret (government) order that no one has seen, but everyone has to abide by it.” As described reftel, credit card company and bank representatives have told us that GOR officials apparently assume that US payment systems routinely share data associated with payment transactions by Russian cardholders with intelligence services in the US and elsewhere.