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You may be a whistleblower and not know it

The public image of a whistleblower is of an employee who witnesses wrongdoing and takes the information public.  Subsequently, the world comes crashing down on them as their employer retaliates....

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Colbert Report: “Ed Snowden has ruined the President’s surprise”

[Updated 8/18] The August 16 edition of the Colbert Report covered President Obama’s recent communications about NSA surveillance programs. Appearing August 6 on Jay Leno’s late-night television...

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Senator Feinstein Ignores 9/11 Findings in Rationalizing NSA’s Massive...

by Coleen Rowley.  More than a few bizarre aspects jumped out at me when I attended the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on October 2.  Instead of providing needed oversight of the Foreign...

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Does Idealism Have to Come with An Expiration Date?

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza By Sibel Edmonds “Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions and the mean ones truths?” –Edith Wharton [First published 10/23/2013 at BoilingFrogsPost.com. Republished...

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Edward Snowden gets a new job

Edward Snowden, 9 Oct 2013. [[Wikimedia, Creative Commons]Moscow newspapers reported today that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been hired to perform website maintenance for “an unidentified major...

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NSA whistleblowers vindicated; surveillance empire strikes back

The glass-and-copper cage of the National Security Agency (NSA) was rattled last week by the first seismic waves of surveillance reform. Leaked tidbits from a White House review group criticized the...

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Jesselyn Radack named one of 100 Leading Global Thinkers

This month, Foreign Policy Magazine named Jesselyn Radack, National Security and Human Rights Director at the Government Accountability Project, one its “100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2013” for her...

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FIlm Review: ‘Top Priority: The Terror Within’

“Top Priority: the Terror Within” tells the true story of whistleblower Julia Davis, a former DHS/ICE officer who conscientiously tries to prevent a bureaucratic SNAFU from turning into another 9/11....

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Rep. Pompeo calls for conference to disinvite Snowden

Congressman Mike Pompeo (R-KS) is in a tizzy that Edward Snowden has been invited to speak (remotely) at a technology conference in Austin.  In a letter to the conference organizers, SXSW, Pompeo...

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What Edward Snowden’s critics forget about Daniel Ellsberg

One year ago, The Guardian published the first disclosure of secret NSA surveillance activities by Edward Snowden. Four days later, the whistleblower revealed his identity to the world. Ever since,...

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Double standard for leaking endangers the nation

ShareGen. David Petraeus (ret.). From Wikiepedia. Reportedly, investigators have recommended indictment of disgraced former Central Intelligence Agency Director, David Petraeus on charges of leaking...

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Whistleblowers and the prosecution loophole

Share(Commentary) by Shanna Devine (Government Accountability Project) and Liz Hempowicz (Project on Government Oversight) Published in The HIll, March 12, 2015 When facing the prospect of criminal...

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A Christmas movie for whistleblowers

Share For the whistleblower in search of Christmas entertainment, look no further than the 1947 film classic, “Miracle on 34th Street.” The plot is a classic whistleblowing situation:  A principled...

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Brave whistleblowers still face overwhelming odds

“Alamo evening” by Steven Kennedy, Flickr CC. In a recent article, “Democrats on Capitol Hill ask White House not to gag federal employees“, the Washington Post quotes from a Congressional letter to...

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Does Idealism Have to Come with An Expiration Date?

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza By Sibel Edmonds “Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions and the mean ones truths?” –Edith Wharton [First published 10/23/2013 at BoilingFrogsPost.com. Republished...

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