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Judge Raises Red Flag on State Secrets Abuse
On Tuesday, a District Court judge in Washington criticized the federal government for invoking the state secrets privilege in a case in which a DEA agent claimed to have been illegally wiretapped by the CIA. The "state secrets" defense restricts...
Judge approves $3 million settlement of CIA deception case
I previously wrote here about the extraordinary findings of U.S. District Court Chief Judge Royce Lamberth in Horn v. Huddle. Judge Lamberth found that officials of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), including Director George Tenet and an agency attorney, made...
Stephen M. Kohn breaks down S. 372 on Boiling Frogs Post
Last week, Stephen M. Kohn was invited by Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post to debate Norman L. Eisen, Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform on the controversial "Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act" (S. 372). In Mr. Eisen's...
Fred Whitehurst converses on his legacy at the FBI lab
Fred Whitehurst is the whistleblower who revealed that the crime lab at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) failed to live up to its reputation for scientific integrity, and sometimes even resorted to falsifying results. Today Jeff Stein of the...
Blowing the Whistle on FBI Crime Lab Abuses
The Washington Post and Associated Press are reporting that the Department of Justice failed to properly review more than 100 criminal cases that were prosecuted in the District of Columbia and which were suspected of being tainted by false forensic...
Truthout reports WPEA being “hotlined”
The independent journalism website, truthout.org, is reporting that the Senate is set to "hotline" the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA), S. 372. Hotlining is a procedure in which the Senate leaders agree that a bill is uncontroversial and they put...
Jane Turner speaks out about the WPEA, S. 372
Jane Turner had worked as a Special Agent for the FBI for twenty years. She led efforts to force the FBI to provide protection for child sex crime victims on the North Dakota Indian Reservations. She also reported theft of...
Fred Whitehurst and Bill Bransford speak to Federal News Radio about WPEA
FBI whistleblower Fred Whitehurst and an attorney for federal managers, Bill Bransford, spoke with Federal News Radio yesterday. They presented different sides of the argument about the Senate version of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA), S. 372. Whitehurst decried...
Stephen Kohn speaks with CorbettReport.com on S. 372
Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC), spoke today with James Corbett of CorbettReport.com. Kohn spoke about the problems with the current Senate version of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA), S. 372. CorbettReport.com provide Open...
FBI Whistleblowers Speak Out Against S. 372
FBI whistleblower Dr. Frederic Whitehurst issued a letter today strongly opposing the repeal of FBI whistleblower rights contained in the current Senate version of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (S. 372). This bill is currently being "hotlined" in the Senate,...
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