'BradCast 6/12/2017: (Guest: Whistleblower Stephen Heller on whistleblower Reality Winner)
The week is not starting off well for Donald Trump in the courts. A second U.S. Court of Appeals has now confirmed lower court rulings blocking Trump's Muslim 'travel ban' Executive Order and the Attorneys General of D.C. and Maryland have filed suit against Trump's alleged violation of the U.S. Constitution's emoluments clauses prohibiting payments from foreign and state governments. But he may have won one in Georgia where, late last week, a judge dismissed a complaint demanding paper ballots in next week's much-watched (and most expensive ever) U.S. House special election, rather than the 100% unverifiable Diebold touch-screen systems voters are still forced to use at the polling place. Then -- speaking of elections and Diebold's unverifiable touch-screen systems -- we're joined by whistleblower Stephen Heller who, while working at a law firm in 2004, discovered Diebold and its attorneys were lying to the state of California about having installed uncertified hardware and software into its unverifiable systems that were, back then, allowed for use in the state. Those touch-screens were decertified following Heller's disclosures, but he paid a stiff price for sharing attorney-client privileged documents with the press. He joins us today with his unique perspective on another election-related leaker/whistleblower, 25-year old NSA contractor Reality Leigh Winner. She was charged under the 1917 Espionage Act last week for leaking a 'Top Secret' NSA analysis to the press, which asserted that, prior to last year's election, Russian intelligence had used spear-phishing attacks to try to gain access to the computers of election officials around the country. Heller offers his insight into the difficult decision he believes Winner faced when deciding to leak the documents, and explains why whistleblowers like him are often forced to decide to do the wrong things for the right reasons. Finally, a major energy utility company in Virginia tries to help choose the winner of the state's Democratic gubernatorial primary on Tuesday, and an otherwise Trump-loving Fox 'News' anchor says Trump's problem isn't fake news or the media, it's Donald Trump...