At the beginning of the hearing, it wasn’t clear what exactly the Zatko, who was fired by Twitter inc in January of this year, was trying to accomplish.
Then, he opined that the FTC and SEC did not have the necessary capacity to oversee Big Tech.
To your humble correspondent, this translates as a call to staff up Big Government regulatory bodies. That portion of the testimony, coupled with his team’s targeted leaks to the likes of CNN and The Washington Post, coupled with the strange reality of a “whistleblower” being celebrated by a bipartisan congress, is certainly a cause for suspicion.
Whistleblower Aid provided both counsel and media relations work to an anonymous intelligence community employee (who has been identified by Congress as Central Intelligence Agency official Eric Ciaramella), who alleged that President Trump pressured the Ukrainian government to accept a “quid pro quo” and launch an investigation of Joe and Hunter Biden.
If you’re a news junkie, surely you know the ins and outs of this story. But if you don’t, here’s a short summary:
Much of the alleged “quid pro quo” scandal was based on hearsay, sourced to a phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky. No evidence surfaced of any monetary payment or governmental policy that supported the allegations. The transcript of the phone call between Trump and Zelensky was
eventually released, and it did not show anything particularly scandalous or abnormal. Zero evidence ever emerged to back the claims sourced to Ciaramella, but despite these shortcomings, Congress found the votes to impeach Trump over the manufactured scandal.
