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Rep. Byron Donalds: Possible leak of UFO whistleblower’s medical records is ‘concerning’ | CUOMO - NewsNation
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Representative Tim Burchett Responds
Trying to discredit a decorated veteran like David Grusch shows the desperation of the group trying to hide the truth. They will fail.
Representative Jared Moskowitz Responds
In a way this only adds to David’s credibility. Why leak something if this is all made up. You do this because he might be on to something.
This is quite distasteful and could potentially constitute a HIPAA violation. I suspect this could backfire.
Man, if there’s one thing I’ve learned from working in a hospital, it’s that you DO NOT fuck with HIPAA. It takes months for HR to respond to your email about exposed wiring affecting patient safety but if you accidentally take a sticker home with a patient’s birthday on it you’ll be escorted off the campus tomorrow morning. Maybe the stakes are different in this scenario, but I wouldn’t be surprised if someone high up gets in serious trouble here.
I have to take yearly HIPAA certification courses, so I completely understand.
I think it’s important to note, though, that his medical data didn’t get leaked. It turned out the reporter got a tip from inside the Intelligence community or Department of Defense and told him what and where to FOIA. What was released was a police report. I don’t believe any laws were broken in this case. It was just a smear job to try to bring up dirt on a vet who was suffering from PTSD at the time.
Who do the leakers think their audience are, exclusively repressed people from the 50’s that think PTSD is shameful?
Now he’s certainly humanised in a way a government hearing could never do.
This also happened in 1971 on Daniel Ellsberg by the Nixon administration, and it backfired spectacularly on the intelligence agencies at that time. It appears that history is not a preferred subject within the intelligence community.
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Ptsd treatment includes cognitive processing therapy, something that helped me see the world more clearly than I ever had prior.
I’m glad that you were able to get the help you needed and are in a better place.
You know, if there wasn’t a coverup, there’s no logical reason why that information was leaked.
It appears to me that if the intention was to make this issue disappear, this action might have been one of the most counterproductive approaches to take.
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Personally, I believe this might anger and further motivate other potential whistleblowers to come forward, if they indeed exist.
huh. I actually want to respect The Intercept. I wonder how the article will really frame things. If it’s framed as a way to dismiss him, and not just in passing as part of a larger comprehensive profile on Grusch… that’s quite rude.
I also don’t understand why struggling with these issues would make someone unfit to be a whistleblower. And why that is assumed to be why it is included in a profile of Grusch. That’s not how things should work.
And I also recognize it’s not cool to touch on this sort of stuff in a profile on someone if it’s not otherwise public info.
Something is weird here.
Edit: The Intercept says
The records were not confidential, medical, nor leaked. They are publicly available law enforcement records obtained under a routine Virginia FOIA request to the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office and provided by the office’s FOIA coordinator. Copies of The Intercept’s correspondence with the sheriff’s office are being published with this story.
I think it’s important to note that his PTSD diagnosis and treatment occurred prior to his latest positions, which means even the intelligence community found him fit to perform his job.
