“[T]he reality is that if you’re a whistleblower, at a very high level you saw a group of well-respected, conscientious whistleblowers go to the FBI only after they were unable to convince their boss that he was engaging in transgressions and the response of all this is that their names get dragged through the mud, they get fired.  The lesson they’re going to draw from it is, ‘Why bother?’”

From the Texas Tribune article on how the acquittal of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton could have a “chilling effect on state employees who witness what they believe to be wrongdoing and corruption.”

Read In Their Own Words. . . .Rice University Political Science Professor Mark Jones at constantinecannon.com