Ben Weingarten:Did the ‘Deep State’ Deep Six Pentagon’s Lovinger Over Discovery of Shady Defense Department Contracts to FBI Trump Informant Stefan Halper?
For this week’s Big Ideas with Ben Weingarten podcast, I had Sean Bigley, a national security attorney who prosecutes intelligence community whistleblower retaliation cases — and is representing Pentagon whistleblower Adam Lovinger in his chilling case that has garnered national attention amazingly involving both a Clinton confidante and Stefan Halper — on the podcast to discuss among other things:
- The historical politicization and weaponization of national security clearances
- How the politicization and weaponization of national security clearances by holdovers meant to block President Trump’s nominees and appointees from coming into the administration is an entirely new pernicious tactic
- The remarkable story of how the highly rated 12-plus year Pentagon analyst Adam Lovinger has had his career destroyed after blowing the whistle on malfeasance within the Department of Defense’s in-house think-tank, the Office of Net Assessment (ONA), including:
- The issues Lovinger blew the whistle on to his superior, ONA Director James Baker, a holdover from the Obama administration, which touched on improper contracts being doled out to among others a close friend of Chelsea Clinton and Stefan Halper, the informant the U.S. government sicced on the Trump campaign to make contact with officials vis-a-vis Russia
- The subsequent allegedly rigged investigations into Lovinger contemporaneous with his being detailed to a prestigious role within the Trump National Security Council
- Why Lovinger’s attorney believes the charges raised against Lovinger were “a total farce,” “trial balloon charges” leaked in an attempt to “figure out what would stick”
- How the adjudication process may result in Lovinger having to make his case to a “panel of unaccountable bureaucrats who report directly to the same woman who has been leading the charge against him from Day One.”
- Why Lovinger’s attorney believes there is a political motivation behind the pursuit of Lovinger, based in no small part on his raising issues with contracts again doled out to a close confidante of the Clintons — for whom Hillary Clinton allegedly lobbied — and the informant into the Trump campaign Stefan Halper
- Lovinger’s message to President Trump
- What reforms Lovinger’s attorney would recommend in order to protect whistleblowers in the face of an intransigent administrative state
You can find the episode on iTunes, everywhere else podcasts are found, and download the episode directly here.
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