{"id":14677,"date":"2019-10-08T19:59:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T19:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fair.org\/?p=9009870"},"modified":"2019-10-08T19:59:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T19:59:05","slug":"political-interference-in-the-whistleblower-disclosure-process-is-horrifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2019\/10\/08\/political-interference-in-the-whistleblower-disclosure-process-is-horrifying\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Political Interference in the Whistleblower Disclosure Process Is Horrifying\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\"It really becomes all about trying to focus on the messenger and not the message, to discredit, to deflect attention. It also, certainly, creates a chilling effect on others who might think about speaking, supporting the whistleblowers\u2019 disclosures, or coming forward on other issues.\"\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/political-interference-in-the-whistleblower-disclosure-process-is-horrifying\/\">CounterSpin<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It really becomes all about trying to focus on the messenger and not the message, to discredit, to deflect attention. It also, certainly, creates a chilling effect on others who might think about speaking, supporting the whistleblowers\u2019 disclosures, o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727832,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14677\/revisions\/727832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}