This excellent article by Peter Mass in The Intercept spells out how Stephen Kim was sacrificed on the altar of secrecy and the intention of ending whistleblowing, using the Espionage Act.
Rosen also had a good relationship with Herzberg. Public affairs officials tend to keep their views to themselves, but Herzberg had donated to the Bush-Cheney campaign, and had signed a letter of support for John Bolton, the neoconservative who became ambassador to the U.N. during the Bush administration. Over just a few months in 2009, Herzberg and Rosen exchanged more than 100 emails.
Herzberg was one of the State Department’s designated traffic cops for organizing (or quashing) meetings between officials and journalists, so his involvement gave an official blessing to Kim’s relationship with Rosen. This would later make the FBI’s pursuit of Kim seem a bit odd — one arm of the government was prosecuting an official for speaking with a reporter whom another arm had arranged for him to meet. Herzberg had also decided that the introductory meeting with Rosen would take place outside the State Department — the type of encounter that the FBI later portrayed as suspicious.
Let’s not allow the facts to interfere with the prosecution of a good scapegoat. Besides, Stephen Kim is Korean, so he’s probably more expendable in the United States.
Has anyone spotted the police state that’s in full flight in the US?
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