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A Call to Patriotic Whistleblowing, Signed by 11 Former Government Employees About the Truth-Telling Project The Truth-Telling Project encourages whistleblowing in the national interest. It urges current and recently retired government officials to reveal the truth to Congress and the public about governmental wrongdoing. lies and cover-up. It aims to change the norms and practices that sustain the cult of secrecy, and to de-legitimize silence that costs lives. It is becoming increasingly clear that a dominant theme of the US administration is cover-up on urgent matters of life and death. Cover-up of the real motives for war and of the foreseeable costs and problems. Illegitimate silence about these matters has cost American lives, and threatens many more. It is time for truth-telling. Such cover-ups are both a necessity for this Administration given its past lies and errors and a vulnerability. They conceal facts that cry out urgently for policy change, and for regime change in Washington. They rely on a secrecy system supposedly intended to protect national security, but which actually operates to undermine both our democracy and security, by concealing embarrassing or incriminating information from Congress and the electorate. The latest dramatic example is the classification of investigative reports and photographs on torture at Abu Ghraib prison, which would still be unknown to the public were it not for their unauthorized disclosure Thanks to the First Amendment, our nation does not have a broad Official Secrets Act criminalizing all leaks, including unauthorized disclosures of governmental deception, corruption, crime, cover-up, incompetence, and disregard for the Constitution and for American lives. The Project recognizes and respects the secrecy laws now in place to protect narrow areas of highly sensitive information about weapons design, communications intelligence and the identity of intelligence agents. We oppose leaks – which, incomprehensibly, Bush administration officials have made repeatedly in the past year – that violate these criminal laws. The Truth-Telling Project aims to reach insiders, as well
as journalists, lawyers, lawmakers and the American public with a message
transcending party or administration, that few of them have heard before:
truth-telling to Congress and the public is not disloyal in America. It is
an expression of a higher loyalty, to Congress, to fellow citizens, to the
Constitution, and to the rule of law.
The Trump family’s growing involvement in cryptocurrency has become one of the most controversial financial stories in modern American politics, with critics arguing that the administration’s pro-crypto policies helped legitimize the industry while simultaneously increasing the family’s wealth through a range of crypto ventures and token projects. Supporters view the strategy as an effort to position the United States as a global leader in digital assets, while opponents point to potential conflicts of interest tied to deregulation, reduced enforcement actions, and the rapid expansion of Trump-linked crypto businesses such as World Liberty Financial and various branded digital tokens. As cryptocurrency markets gained renewed mainstream acceptance and investor enthusiasm, the Trump family’s holdings and partnerships reportedly grew substantially in value, fueling an ongoing debate over the intersection of political power, financial policy, and private business interests in the emerging digital asset economy.
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