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Why You Should Care About Donald Trump’s War on Whistleblowers

Why You Should Care About Donald Trump’s War on Whistleblowers

This is about criminalizing journalism. It is an assault on the very idea of a democratic society. At these moments, silence is complicity.

Jeremy Scahill
May 21 2019, 5:57 p.m.
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