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Ellsberg ciriticizes Obama for prosecution of whistleblowers
Speigel Online is today releasing an interview with Daniel Ellsberg in which Ellsberg criticizes the Obama administration for increasing the use of criminal prosecutions against whistleblowers. Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers to reveal how numerous previous administrations had resorted to...
US government arrests another whistleblower
The U.S. government has arrested another whistleblower. Wired.com reports that the government is holding Specialist Bradley Manning in detention in Kuwait pending charges that he supplied a classified video to WikiLeaks.org. I reported here in April that this video depicts...
WikiLeaks provokes DoD threat against whistleblowers
A front page story in today's Washington Post looks at the growth and effects of the popular anonymous whistleblower website, WikiLeaks. Daniel Schmitt, a WikiLeaks director, told Post writer Joby Warrrick that, "The message of WikiLeaks to the controllers of...
MSPB Fails to Protect Robert MacLean
An administrative judge at the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) upheld the illegal termination of former federal air marshal Robert MacLean. Mr. MacLean blew the whistle on the Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Agency's (TSA) plan to improperly remove...
OSHA to PATH: no retaliation against injured employee
One of the outcomes of the 9/11 Commission was that Congress passed two whistleblower protection laws for railroad and public transit employees in 2008. These are the Federal Rail Safety Act (FRSA), 49 U.S.C. § 20109, and the National Transit...
Rhode Island council member blew whistle on bribery scheme
WPRI is reporting on its web page that a recent federal indictment of three members of the North Providence town council arose from another council member blowing the whistle on them. Last Thursday, Town Council President Joseph Burchfield, Councilman Raymond...
Feds prosecute another whistleblower
The U.S. Justice Department is prosecuting another whistleblower. According to an indictment by a Baltimore grand jury (reported here by the New York Times), Thomas A. Drake released classified emails showing that the National Security Administration (NSA) wasted billions of...
Obama still has no Special Counsel
GovernmentExecutive.com reports that President Barack Obama still has not appointed anyone to lead the Office of Special Counsel (OSC). The article quotes leaders of a federal employee union, Danielle Brian of the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) and former OSC...
WikiLeaks.org releases 2007 video of US troops killing 2 Reuters journalists
WikiLeaks.org has released an 18 minute video that shows United States armed forces in Iraq attacking a group that included two journalists from Reuters. The journalists, and about ten other civilians, were fatally injured in the 2007 attack. National Public...
ACLU of Ohio calls on University of Akron to keep whistleblowing professor
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio issued a press release today calling on the University of Akron to retain Professor Matt Williams. Prof. Williams resigned his adjunct position last October to protest the university's policy of collecting a...
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