Pedro Israel Orta’s “The Broken Whistle”—both book and film—is a thunderous wake-up call, ripping the veil off a "Deep State" run amok, trampling the constitutional republic America’s Founding Fathers fought to forge.
This isn’t just a story; it’s a battle cry, exposing the unvarnished truth through Orta’s gut-wrenching firsthand account as an Intelligence Community (IC) whistleblower. He dared to report waste, fraud, and abuse, following every legal step mandated by the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act and Presidential Policy Directive 19 (PPD-19).
His reward? A rogue bureaucracy unleashed hellbent on his destruction—breaking laws, smearing his name, stripping his rights, and shattering his life, all while cackling at his ruin. Congress? Silent. IC leadership? Absent—washing their hands like Pontius Pilate as Orta, with 18 years of spotless service and sacrifices in Iraq, Afghanistan, and beyond, was crucified for doing right.
This isn’t a glitch; it’s a brutal, failed system that punishes the brave and shields the corrupt. Edward Snowden was told to "report internally" because protections existed—Orta’s surgical dissection of this lie proves otherwise. Whistleblowers who follow the rules don’t get shields; they get swords—reprisals designed to silence and annihilate. The whistle isn’t just broken; it’s been smashed by a Deep State drunk on power.
For every American, “The Broken Whistle” is a blazing red alert: liberty hangs by a thread, and you’re next if we don’t act. Orta channels Martin Niemöller’s haunting words—“First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out…”—to slam home a truth: silence is complicity. This isn’t a spectator sport; it’s your fight. The Deep State’s retaliation, unchecked power, and shredded protections aren’t just Orta’s nightmare—they’re a preview of what awaits anyone who dares challenge the machine. Rise up, or regret it when they come for you.
Orta’s defiance against tyranny—despite a career torched, a family imperiled, and commendations twisted into condemnation—is a blazing testament to courage. He asks, “Who will speak for me when my turn comes?” That’s not rhetoric; it’s your mirror. The Deep State’s overreach isn’t an abstract bogeyman—it’s a clear and present danger to every freedom you hold dear. Orta’s scars make it real, urgent, and personal.
This book doesn’t just expose—it empowers. Orta tears open the "national security spoils system," as legal expert Tom Devine calls it, revealing a secretive world where due process is a myth for IC employees. Knowledge is your weapon; wield it to demand transparency and accountability. “We the People” aren’t pawns—we’re the power. Orta’s rallying cry—“rise, speak up, and act”—ignites a fire: collective change starts with your resolve.
“The Broken Whistle” storms into the fight over power, security, and democracy, slamming a bureaucratic state spiraling out of control. Orta’s takedown of the Deep State echoes historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.’s warnings of unchecked executive rot. Amid polarized distrust and whistleblower stories like Snowden’s, this book cuts through the noise with raw, systemic truth that unites us beyond party lines.
The culprit? Congress—cowardly, self-promoting, and addicted to political theater and grandstanding rather than controlling executive excess with its constitutional authority. Orta demonstrates that legislative cowardice fuels Deep State abuses, which serves as a powerful indictment while debates continue regarding intelligence oversight, funding, and whistleblower laws that lie in ruins. His demands—pardon Snowden and restore the tormented whistleblowers ruined by the Deep State—challenge us: reform now or witness the truth perish under the weight of secrecy.
This is bigger than Orta. It’s about America’s soul. “The Broken Whistle” warns that an unchecked Deep State could morph us into a dictatorial bureaucracy or a vile oligarchy—scholarly fears of democratic decay made flesh. Anchored in the Constitution’s supremacy and backed by Marbury v. Madison, Orta’s fight is our fight to reclaim the republic.
Enough with the hand-wringing. “The Broken Whistle” isn’t just a book—it’s a figurative Molotov cocktail hurled at a rogue Deep State system. Please read it. Feel it. Act on it. The whistle is broken—let’s forge a new one together.
This isn’t just a story; it’s a battle cry, exposing the unvarnished truth through Orta’s gut-wrenching firsthand account as an Intelligence Community (IC) whistleblower. He dared to report waste, fraud, and abuse, following every legal step mandated by the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act and Presidential Policy Directive 19 (PPD-19).
His reward? A rogue bureaucracy unleashed hellbent on his destruction—breaking laws, smearing his name, stripping his rights, and shattering his life, all while cackling at his ruin. Congress? Silent. IC leadership? Absent—washing their hands like Pontius Pilate as Orta, with 18 years of spotless service and sacrifices in Iraq, Afghanistan, and beyond, was crucified for doing right.
This isn’t a glitch; it’s a brutal, failed system that punishes the brave and shields the corrupt. Edward Snowden was told to "report internally" because protections existed—Orta’s surgical dissection of this lie proves otherwise. Whistleblowers who follow the rules don’t get shields; they get swords—reprisals designed to silence and annihilate. The whistle isn’t just broken; it’s been smashed by a Deep State drunk on power.
For every American, “The Broken Whistle” is a blazing red alert: liberty hangs by a thread, and you’re next if we don’t act. Orta channels Martin Niemöller’s haunting words—“First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out…”—to slam home a truth: silence is complicity. This isn’t a spectator sport; it’s your fight. The Deep State’s retaliation, unchecked power, and shredded protections aren’t just Orta’s nightmare—they’re a preview of what awaits anyone who dares challenge the machine. Rise up, or regret it when they come for you.
Orta’s defiance against tyranny—despite a career torched, a family imperiled, and commendations twisted into condemnation—is a blazing testament to courage. He asks, “Who will speak for me when my turn comes?” That’s not rhetoric; it’s your mirror. The Deep State’s overreach isn’t an abstract bogeyman—it’s a clear and present danger to every freedom you hold dear. Orta’s scars make it real, urgent, and personal.
This book doesn’t just expose—it empowers. Orta tears open the "national security spoils system," as legal expert Tom Devine calls it, revealing a secretive world where due process is a myth for IC employees. Knowledge is your weapon; wield it to demand transparency and accountability. “We the People” aren’t pawns—we’re the power. Orta’s rallying cry—“rise, speak up, and act”—ignites a fire: collective change starts with your resolve.
“The Broken Whistle” storms into the fight over power, security, and democracy, slamming a bureaucratic state spiraling out of control. Orta’s takedown of the Deep State echoes historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.’s warnings of unchecked executive rot. Amid polarized distrust and whistleblower stories like Snowden’s, this book cuts through the noise with raw, systemic truth that unites us beyond party lines.
The culprit? Congress—cowardly, self-promoting, and addicted to political theater and grandstanding rather than controlling executive excess with its constitutional authority. Orta demonstrates that legislative cowardice fuels Deep State abuses, which serves as a powerful indictment while debates continue regarding intelligence oversight, funding, and whistleblower laws that lie in ruins. His demands—pardon Snowden and restore the tormented whistleblowers ruined by the Deep State—challenge us: reform now or witness the truth perish under the weight of secrecy.
This is bigger than Orta. It’s about America’s soul. “The Broken Whistle” warns that an unchecked Deep State could morph us into a dictatorial bureaucracy or a vile oligarchy—scholarly fears of democratic decay made flesh. Anchored in the Constitution’s supremacy and backed by Marbury v. Madison, Orta’s fight is our fight to reclaim the republic.
Enough with the hand-wringing. “The Broken Whistle” isn’t just a book—it’s a figurative Molotov cocktail hurled at a rogue Deep State system. Please read it. Feel it. Act on it. The whistle is broken—let’s forge a new one together.
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2 days ago | Comment by: Philip
Lawfare was constraining and suppressing the activities of many otherwise participating conservatives until recently. And the left had weaponized the courts into destroying healthy public discourse. This is a big problem. I’ve compiled a list of said conspirators if anyone would like to add to it. This list might need updating since I last updated it on 03-22-2025: This is a list of some (but not all - the list grows) of the co-conspirators involved in destroying America’s faith (what’s left of it) in our election freedoms: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton (and staff including Robert E. 'Robby' Mook), Ray Hulser (former chief of the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section, and currently on Jack Smith’s team prosecuting former President Trump; known to have declined prosecution of the Clinton Foundation in 2016 – see John Durham’s report; also see “Clinton Cash” by Peter Schweizer), Jim Clapper, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Laura Dehmlow, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Loretta Lynch, John Brennan, Michael J. Morell, Joe Biden, Merrick Garland (in his role as Attorney General of the United States), Biden’s White House Counsel Dana Remus and Jonathan Su (case known as "Arctic Frost" opened 4/13/2022 by anti-Trump former FBI agent Timothy Thibault), Biden’s Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, Biden’s former National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, anti-Trumper Andrew Weissman, Special Counsel Robert Mueller in his role as an MSNBC contributor, lawyer Mark Zaid, who represented Eric Ciaramella - the CIA analyst identified as the whistleblower in Trump’s impeachment in 2019, Norm Eisen - special counsel to the Democrat-led House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment, Leon E. Panetta (one of the 50 signers), Michael E. Horowitz (IG), Ian Sams (a spokesman for the White House Counsel’s Office), Politico's Heidi Przybyla, CNN's Manu Raju, Jay Bratt, Katherine Reiley, Melanie Joy, Caroline Saba, Bradley Weinsheimer (associate deputy AG) for his role as a conduit for Hunter Biden’s legal team, Fatima Gross Graves (wife of U.S. Attorney for D.C. Matthew Graves, appointed by President Biden, and a vocal liberal activist), NY Attorney Gen. Letitia James (an elected democrat who campaigned on a platform of going after Trump), PR firm Berlin Rosen, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (an elected democrat (who campaigned on a platform of going after Trump), NYC judge Arthur Engoron, judge Juan Merchan (made 3 political contributions to Joe Biden, the Progressive Turnout Project, and a group called Stop Republicans in 2020), Lesley Wolf, (assistant U.S. attorney in Delaware and a top prosecutor on the Hunter Biden firearms charges investigation), Nina Jankowicz (former head of a newly created bureaucracy called ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ under the Department of Homeland Security), (continued) (resumption) … Sid Blumenthal, Rachel Cohen (spokeswoman for Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va.), Michael Sussman (Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer at Perkins Coie and the operative who perpetrated a massive Russia-collusion fraud on the American public which not only manipulated the 2016 election process but also froze the Trump presidency and nearly paralyzed the nation politically for 4 years), Adam Schiff, Mitt Romney, Emmet Sullivan, Christopher Steele, Igor Danchenko, Brian Auten, Adam Kinzinger, Richard and Liz Cheney, Joseph Cofer Black, Glenn Simpson, Christopher Wray, Laura Dehmlow, Susan Rice, Rod Rosenstein, Thomas Catan, Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr, Neil King Jr., Shailagh Murray, Mary Jacoby, Peter Fritsch, Edward Baumgartner, Rinat Akhmetshin, Samantha Power, Stephen Somma, Stefan Halper, John Podesta, Cody Shearer, Marc Elias, Thomas Williams, Colin Kahl, Kevin Clinesmith, Kathleen Kavalec, Lewis Lukens, Gregory Craig, Jonathan Winer, Victoria Nuland, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, Tashina Gauhar, John Carlin, Sally Yates, Rodney Joffe, Fani Willis (an elected democrat), the cybersecurity firm Neustar, the Perkins Coie law firm, Georgia Technology Executive 1, James Baker, FBI special agent Elvis Chan, John McCain (deceased), Allison Gill, former Twitter head of legal/policy/&trust (aka chief censor) Vijaya Gaddle, former Twitter head of trust & safety Yoel Roth, the Election Integrity Project at Stanford University, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, NBC, CBS, ABC, Facebook/Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, Reid Garrett Hoffman (LinkedIn), almost every democrat politician, …