A firsthand examination of broken whistleblower safeguards, retaliation, failed oversight, and unchecked government power inside the Intelligence Community.
For anyone trying to understand how power actually operates inside the intelligence community . . . this book is essential and deeply unsettling reading.”
— The Book Revue
WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, September 3, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- As the 2026 midterm elections refocus national attention on congressional oversight and executive power, former CIA officer and Intelligence Community whistleblower Pedro Israel Orta is launching a renewed media campaign for The Broken Whistle: A Deep State Run Amok, a firsthand examination of what happens when government systems designed to expose wrongdoing, protect whistleblowers, and check abuses of executive power fail.
Drawing on eighteen years inside the Central Intelligence Agency - including service in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Middle East, CIA Headquarters, and the Office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community - Orta takes readers inside a world largely hidden from public view. His experience working on whistleblower issues, and later becoming a whistleblower himself, provides the foundation for an examination of government accountability, institutional power, retaliation, and congressional oversight.
The book examines the 2019 Ukraine whistleblower controversy that contributed to the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. Orta questions how that...
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