Dear Congressman Souter,

OK, so the emotional plight of “Whistleblowers” does not strike a chord with you, that is fine. So what if a few people who have attempted to do the right thing have had their career’s cut short, suffered financially and emotionally with a dim employment future in front of them. It is your choice to ignore and denigrate these people, heartless, but certainly your choice.

What you are missing and what you should be most interested in is the fact that Congress, who is supposed to be protecting the United States citizenry, is being kept in the dark by a strong executive who is protecting incompetence and malfeasance through classification by hiding behind national security. You are a Republican with a Republican president and executive, but do you think that you will stay in power forever? The polls suggest that at least the Presidency will again fall to Democratic hands in 2008. How will you then feel when a Democratic controlled executive keeps Congress in the dark about such things as NSA eavesdropping? How will you then feel when the opposite party foists similar revelations upon Congress?

Congressman Souter, how do you think Congress is ever going to get any information if the choke point for knowledge is an executive that is hostile to any outside interference by our representatives in Congress? In the past the American people have been protected by an aggressive press who has published the revelations of whistleblowers like “deep throat”. If that is the way you wish to continue to be embarrassed by government failures, misconduct and illegal actions, then continue to make your uniformed statements about “whistleblowers”, continue to walk in lock step with your President and in so doing continue to push the Congress into irrelevancy! It is time for you and other members of Congress to step up and become a true third branch of government, not a vestigial tool.

Sincerely,

John Vincent

Retired FBI Agent of 28 years

NSWBC Member