Posted on 11/06/2019 6:11:49 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
While speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) reacted to calls to reveal the whistleblower’s identity by stating that whistleblowers, especially those speaking about government action, “should be allowed to remain confidential.”
Romney said, “My own view is that whistleblowers, particularly those that are blowing whistles on action within the government, should be allowed to remain confidential.”
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I wonder what he thinks about Espionage and Spies engaging in a Seditious Conspiracy to Overthrow the United States Government??
“Is Mitt speaking for Mitt, or for Pierre”?
Winner!
Remaining confidential is contrary to our Constitution.
The Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that “in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right…to be confronted with the witnesses against him.”
Hey Mitt, please go down to Mexico and join up with the break away Morman group down there.
Romney is in this up to his neck.
Evidently Mitt can not read and needs someone to read and explain the CONSTITUTION to him.
Pierre Delecto speaks!!!
It does not and never has protected the whistleblower's identity.
(8) take or fail to take, or threaten to take or fail to take, a personnel action with respect to any employee or applicant for employment because of-
(A) any disclosure of information by an employee or applicant which the employee or applicant reasonably believes evidences-
(i) a violation of any law, rule, or regulation, or(ii) gross mismanagement, a gross waste of funds, an abuse of authority, or a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety,
...
(9) take or fail to take, or threaten to take or fail to take, any personnel action against any employee or applicant for employment because of-
(A) the exercise of any appeal, complaint, or grievance right granted by any law, rule, or regulation;(B) testifying for or otherwise lawfully assisting any individual in the exercise of any right referred to in subparagraph (A);
(C) cooperating with or disclosing information to the Inspector General of an agency, or the Special Counsel, in accordance with applicable provisions of law; or
(D) for refusing to obey an order that would require the individual to violate a law;
Nowhere does it say that the identity of the employee must be withheld.
Not stupid -- opportunistic.
He's a regular Maverick John McCain. You know, backstabber.
It will be interesting to see if he gets re-elected. That will tell us a lot about his constituents.
Not sure exactly how it works in impeachments - but wouldn’t the right for Trump to confront his accuser embodied in the 6th Amendment come into play here? Or would that need to wait for the Senate phase.
Was Harry Reid a whistleblower when he claimed Romney didn’t pay taxes?
So many on FR leaped to Romney’s defense, calling dingy Harry a liar. But how do you know he was lying? Because Romney was the GOP nominee? That means we must defend him without knowing the facts?
Romney (DB-UT)
If Shannon O’Brien didn’t say “Would you like to see my tattoo?,” Romney could very well have been a losing footnote in politics.
Mitt Romney.
The phrase whi h comes to mind is F’N IDIOT!!
Thanks, Utah, for voting in this POS.
Not a whistleblower. He lost that status when he colluded with Schiff.
Seems the spineless republican wimp are scared stiff of outing the liar!! Just FREAKIN LEAK IT SOB’s!!! Play the rats game you linguine spine idiots! GOD IM SO SICK OF THEM!!
You can’t accuse someone and then say....but you can’t talk to me about it.
Mitt doesn’t know what he’s talking about! Eric Ciaramella is NOT a whistleblower! He is a spy for a deep state rogue agency.
Didn’t Don Jr. recently name Romney as his favorite Democrat?
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