patrick eddington, thank you for shedding light on what you and your wife went through.0 years married? what you said? >> it will be 29 this october, yes. assume she didn't kill me between now and then. >> happy anniversary and thank you for coming on. >> thank you. >>> just in to us here at cnn, rudy giuliani has lawyered up hiring a former watergate prosecutor as his attorney. stand by. behr presents: tough as walls. that's some great paint. ♪ that's some great paint. behr ultra, ranked #1 in customer satisfaction with interior paints. great paint, new low price. starting at $29.98. exclusively at the home depot. that's why xfinity mobile lets you design your own data. you can share 1, 3, or 10 gigs of data between lines, mix in lines of unlimited, and switch it up at any time. all with millions of secure wifi hotspots and the best lte everywhere else. it's a different kind of wireless network, designed to save you money. switch and save up to $400 a year on your wireless bill. plus, get $250 back when you buy an eligible phone. that's simple. easy. awesome. call, clic

i was in a very open mood and i there's only one patrick eddington living in this community. now an assistant don't take a source i'm going to march up to bill and start talking to people. that change the dynamic at that moment. >> host: when did you become aic whistleblower? >> guest: by april of 1995 i had gone through a through a sf what i will call dog and pony show in total briefings at cia with differing levels of managers and folks where it was really clear that despite my ability even take material out of the cia library that showed potential health effects from either low-level exposure to chemical agents, they were simply not going to go and review all the available data this issue and a serious way. due to be when john deutsch ws nominated to be the next director of central intelligence, i smuggled 100 classified documents and took them up to the senate intelligence committee and i laid all this stuff out on the table. it was a bipartisan meeting with staff, probably a little bit different than what we are seeing with the ukrainegate episode today. i had taken post

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host: patrick eddington at our table, gulf war whistleblower and currently a research fellow institute. thank you for being here, let's talk about your story. why did you become a whistleblower? guest: those of us who have been through this experience, when you look at whistleblower cases, a lot of commonalities come out and there is a new book, crisis of conscience: whistleblowing in an age of fraud. he takes you through these cases . what you find with most whistleblowers is they tend to be very inter-directed. you tend to have a loyalty essentially to a higher purpose or calling. i have spent 26 years in government either full or part-time service between the national guard, the cia, 10 plus .ears on capitol hill and so on i take it deadly seriously, i will until the day i die and that is what drove me in that circumstance because it was very clear during the war there was an amount of intelligence flowing out of the theater in the early days of the conflict potentialated chemical agent attacks had taken place or alarms had been going off. i was working at the equivalent imagery hea

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research fellow patrick eddington a former cia analyst when 1996 blew the whistle on them a u.s. military for exposig our troops to chemical agents during the gulf war. welcome to the show. >> the cure much. you have been through this process in a much more interesting perspective. we are gesturing to cobble together facts. what do you have to say the president wanting to know of the whistleblower. he feels like he is been wrongly accused and want some version of due process, can those things happen while keeping the whistle blur and ominous? >> they can and quite frankly the first whistleblower identity is the least of this presidents problems. you are talking about rudy having all these issues, people around him indicted and potentially going to jail, there's a lot of other things that this president ought to be concerned about rather than the particular individual. there's no doubt in my mind that for adam schiff, by the way in 18 years in congress, and oversaw the slightest interest of helping whistleblowers until the ukraine exploded. there is no doubt that schiff wants to n

. >> and joining us now is former cia analyst and whistleblower himself patrick eddington.owers are typically protected from replies al. but donald trump wants this whistleblower exposed and by extension some say targeted.al. but donald trump wants this whistleblower exposed and by extension some say targeted. >> thanks for having me on. and let me just say that i think i would take some issue with the idea that the law you serves as any kind of meaningful protection. yesterday i hosted a panel in which i had the government accountability project on stage to talk about some of these very issues. and g.a.p. hams whistleblowers -- ham handles whistleblowers case by case basis. and they are usually willing to run the risk of retaliating somebody against. when i worked for a congressman, we developed legislation that would have made it a felony for folks in the government to engage in that kind of behavior that would have carried a mandatory minimum ten year sentence and $100,000 fine. now, that would certainly be great if we had something like that today to help protect whistl

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joining me right now is patrick eddington. he's a former cnn analyst who became a whistleblower.angerous agents in the gulf war. thank you for joining me. when you hear the president's comments there, what do you think? >> kate, it's great to be with you, and what i think is the president looked and sounded like a cornered animal. that's really what he looked and sounded like, quite frankly. at this point i'll just repeat what i've said in other forae. we need to have complete facts, we need to have a full investigation. that means documents from cia, fbi and the state, and you need to have witnesses who have any kind of knowledge of any goings-on with the president and foreign officials. i hope that mr. trump, who hasn't taken whistleblower calls seriously in the past, that he takes this seriously. i haven't seen anyone make an accusation like this against the president of the united states. >> you can also say that anyone making an accusation has not faced the withered criticalization by the president. people say don't take his words seriously, and people don't in certain circu

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host: patrick eddington at our table, gulf war whistleblower and currently a research fellow institute. thank you for being here, let's talk about your story. why did you become a whistleblower? guest: those of us who have been through this experience, when you look at whistleblower cases, a lot of commonalities come out aner