I spent time having video calls with LEOs, intelligence agents and military folks over the course of the past 6-9 months. I saw how broken and disjointed and tribal power has become within the world of American authority.

I now know things about how the US government and military work that I feel the public should know.

I could write a book or make a YouTube video. But both of those are to inflexible and risky. I want to spill the beans in a much more permanent and effective way. I would like to help the public understand what is really going on behind the scenes, as best as I have seen.

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    i have media friends. radio and newspaper people mostly, but a few tv folk too. if the knowledge was actionable, i’d go to them. ask them what to do.

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    Get a list and contact them all at once with all the information. AP and Reuters are good too, telegraph, then your big US papers, 404media, etx.

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    Snowden gave the information to reporters and then tried to make his way to a non-extradition country. The U.S. canceled his passport, he got stuck in Russia. My advice, get to your destination first, and then say something. Many media outlets have a way to upload documents anonymously to protect sources.

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          SD card. Thumb drives are too easy to have malware. Nobody should plug in an unfamiliar thumb drive.

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            There’s zero functional difference between an SD card and a USB stick as far as malware. Don’t plug in any unfamiliar data storage device.

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            Generally news orgs and the like who have a real reason to receive a thumbdrive with important docs from random people will have a method of mitigating the risk. For example, a former client who was a tax preparer had a dedicated laptop which was firewalled off from the network and could only access a document web portal to upload files from the flash drive as their mitigation strategy

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    Large News orgs like the NY Times and kind of indie news like The Intercept have official encrypted channels for sending tips. I would send to 2-3 large news orgs, maybe a half dozen small ones. Tell all of them the whole thing will be dumped on Twitter in some time period so they should rush to get ahead of it.

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    I don’t mean to offend, but you probably don’t have anything actionable or even surprising to anybody that’s been there. “The system is fucked!” Isn’t news to anybody. You’d have to have something with concrete proof that an individual or org has done something specific. And talking to individuals and getting their stories would be more worthy of a book than a whistle blower situation. Maybe you have that, I don’t know. But you need files, pictures, or something that proves that it was a known policy or intentional wrongdoing, or you’ll get nowhere. And odds are it’s too broad if you’re getting this from that many seperate pillars of authority.

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      “The system is fucked!” Isn’t news to anybody

      the amount the pentagon fails its audit by every year is staggering. but given that a lot of it is bribes that they don’t want to put on the books, meh?

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    I’ve had to help similar whistleblowers and people in the Epstein saga and had to write this up already:

    https://transparency_files.codeberg.page/whistleblower.html

    Respond here if you have any questions or need help.

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    Contacting a journalist from some relatively non-US-Flavor aid-drinking media outlet? Find some that allow contact through encrypted media, work meticulously to not give any obvious identity clues. This being said, I feel “they’re a bunch of crazy, corrupt dumbfucks” might not work as news, per se.

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      Lol wut? Snowden changed a ton of things. Http used to be default back then. Encryption had a huuuge roll out thanks to Snowden

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      We’ve had the largest protests in American history twice over Trump. People do care, it’s just nearly impossible to get things done as they are now. It doesn’t mean people aren’t doing anything.

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      The public cares, but are mostly powerless because it’s extremely difficult to coordinate efforts across so many states and distance.

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    I’d suggest looking into what news outlets are still willing to ‘break the story’ to the public these days. Perhaps a search for ‘whistle blower story’ might help you find these that are willing to still be proper reporters.

    If you feel you’re life might be endanger in anyway, but reaching out to someone to share your story, consider looking into concealing yourself with any device you decide to use. I’m sure there are resources out there that can help you navigate this. If what you say is true, do what you believe to be the moral thing to do.