Whistleblowing was the buzzword of 2013 and 2014. Snowden and Assange are the big names splashed around headlines, but they’re not the only ones going to great lengths to preserve the Fourth Estate and, in doing so, saving democracy. By Frederick Reese MintPressNews.com December 22, 2014 Barrett Brown Photo: Nikki Loehr Occasionally, there are situations More
Too Big to Jail? Why Kidnapping, Torture, Assassination, and Perjury Are No Longer Crimes in Washington By Tom Engelhardt April 20, 2014 TomDispatch.com How the mighty have fallen. Once known as “Obama’s favorite general,” James Cartwright will soon don a prison uniform and, thanks to a plea deal, spend 13 months behind bars. Involved in setting up More
Blowing the whistle on powerful factions is not a fun thing to do, but it is the last avenue for truth, balanced debate and democracy By Thomas Drake, Daniel Ellsberg, Katharine Gun, Peter Kofod, Ray McGovern, Jesselyn Radack and Coleen Rowley, Guardian UK 14 December 13 ReaderSupportedNews.org t least since the aftermath of September More
A video informally titled "the care and feeding of a young imperial bureaucrat" viscerally conveys the rot that is Washington Glenn Greenwald guardian.co.uk, Sunday 2 June 2013 11.05 EDT (updated below) The combination of extensive travel and being quite consumed with a story I'm working on has prevented me from writing for the last couple of days. More
A video informally titled "the care and feeding of a young imperial bureaucrat" viscerally conveys the rot that is Washington Glenn Greenwald guardian.co.uk, Sunday 2 June 2013 11.05 EDT (updated below) The combination of extensive travel and being quite consumed with a story I'm working on has prevented me from writing for the last couple of days. More
Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, In Washington, Fear the Silence, Not the Noise Posted by Peter Van Buren February 09, 2012 One thing is obvious. No one ever joins the government in order to be a whistleblower or leaker. Whistleblowers are created, not born. To offer an example, as Peter Van Buren is happy to More
Justice Department Charges Kiriakou With Dislcosing Classified Information Get the Whistleblowers By ANDREW ROSENTHAL January 26, 2012 The Loyal Opposition, NYTimes.com There was an article on the front page of the Times on Wednesday that stopped me cold. It reported that the Justice Department has charged a former Central Intelligence Agency officer, John More
Rules of American justice: a tale of three cases BY GLENN GREENWALD TUESDAY, JAN 24, 2012 Salon.com John Kiriakou and Jose Padilla (Credit: ABC/AP) Developments in three legal cases, just from the last 24 hours, potently illuminate the Rules of American Justice. First, the Justice Department yesterday charged a former CIA agent, John Kiriakou, with four felony More
