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.
You’d probably end up shooting yourself twice in the back of the head after posting this if anything you knew was actually actionable.
Prep all the information, prerecord videos, prep a will and statement of sanity, psych eval and doctor note etc, anything to show you are of sane mind. Have a dead mans trigger to send/post copies of that stuff too.
Then send it certified mail to multiple news sources including any personal messages and notes, letting them know where else it’s being sent, especially send to ones not owned by far right interests. And post the videos on every video platform and social site.
https://www.politico.com/news-tips
I know Lemmy hates traditional media, but it’s still the best way to handle something like this. A book or video by a no name random person is easy to ignore. Real investigative journalists both know how to protect sources and create visibility.
Idk but it’d be pretty sick if you just posted it here lol
Keep up the good work, agent Fleur.
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.
Could also put it in the mail
A thumb drive in the mail, sure. Too many things can go wrong printing off the docs and mailing those.
SD card. Thumb drives are too easy to have malware. Nobody should plug in an unfamiliar thumb drive.
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.
Not true. A USB device can emulate a keyboard and execute almost anything with no user action, just plugging it in. A bare SD card can’t do that.
Most SD card readers are just USB adapters. Even inside of most computers, they are just attached to an internal USB header.
Yes. Thats a trusted device that you already have. The data on the card cant change the behavior of your card reader. However a new unfamiliar UBS device could contain malicious hardware.
Anyone with half a brain that receives an unknown data storage device is going to plug that in to an air gapped computer, preferably running a linux distro, and a base install with basic tools and AV software to look at a potentially damaging device and hopefully clean it. If it does contain malware that successfully wrecks the computer, just wipe and reinstall. Better yet if it has a CD drive so no malware can infect the reinstallation media/live install.
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
Turn it into a waveform and sing it to a pigeon?
My preference would be to upload to SecureDrop (thanks @quick_snail@feddit.nl I forgot the name of the service) and be done with it.
YouTube, tiktok, Instagram, facebook & twitter, maybe reddit cover like 90% of people’s attention. The news reposts the biggest things from those platforms; if you use all 6 (you would probably want to find friends that each use those as their primary channel & actually announce things/get engagement) you would be able to disseminate to very broad swathes of the country relatively quickly.
Secure Drop to all the news sites, international.
Sounds like a good way to get suicided. My feed as of writing this:
these days? hit up polymarket
I love that legal insider trading is basically what they’re promoting.
Don Jr is on the board of Polymarket, FYI. I’m sure it’s totally unrelated to all the 6 figure bets being placed mere minutes before every action in Iran.
He’s also on the board of kalshi.
is he on the board of my donut shop because i need one godsdamned vice
It’s probably family owned, you should be safe.
I changed my mind my vice is going to be kittens not donuts. Does he own the local kitten shop he better not own the local kitten shop. I think the sheriff owns it.
The sheriff in your town is MAGA and one of his best friends. Sorry.
Hit up Polymarket, move the proceeds to crypto, move yourself to a non-extradition country, then spill the beans. It’s much easier to be on the wrong side of the US military industrial complex when you don’t have to rely on working for income.
No other answer makes any sense.
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.
This doesn’t answer OP’s question, it’s just pure condescension. If he has nothing then let the journalists figure that out on their own. then OP can deal with the consequences.
Realism isn’t condescension. I know every one of us daydreams about taking the system down, but fleeing the country and uprooting your life for something that doesn’t get noticed isn’t exactly a win other than getting out of the country. Without knowing exactly what the info is, it’s more harmful to encourage someone to do something drastic and feed into the daydream.
How is it “realism” when all we have to go on is an intentionally vague post?
OP needs to go find a reliable journalist. If they have nothing then said journalist will have a laugh. and if OP is stupid about it they’ll also be going to prison.
OP needs practical advice if they’re serious about this. And they shouldn’t be sharing any details here, this is not a secure enough platform to get away with that
And people also need to tempur their expectations. OP isn’t taking down the administration, pretending they are is just blowing hot air up both your ass and theirs. It’s a disservice to them and anybody actually trying to move the needle. At MOST it could be a juicy tell-all that won’t get acted upon. Fleeing the country is quite excessive for that.
Edit: practical advice; touch grass and come back to reality. We can fix most of the problems but we need to do so realistically.
“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?
Maybe keep a little critical information on a dead man’s switch and let that be known when revealing the rest.
Idk if actually wise, but it seems like you might want to keep some leverage for self protection
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.
You’re all right, man. Thanks for imparting this information.
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.
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.
Edward Snowdon and Donald Trump show that the public doesn’t care.
At least not enough to change anything.The public cares, but are mostly powerless because it’s extremely difficult to coordinate efforts across so many states and distance.
Going by votes in the last election 25% of Americans care and 25% think what ever it is its cool.
Half didn’t even vote at all
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.
Lol wut? Snowden changed a ton of things. Http used to be default back then. Encryption had a huuuge roll out thanks to Snowden
