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Court Rejects Perdue’s Effort To Dismantle Whistleblower Review

March 25, 2026 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. , , ,
A United States court rejected an effort by poultry manufacturer Perdue Farms to eliminate the Labor Department’s process for reviewing whistleblower claims.  Whistleblowers Rudy Howell and Craig Watts, who had contracts with Perdue, alleged that the corporation retaliated against them when they raised concerns about animal welfare and other health and safety hazards.  On June 27, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and its regulatory authority to penalize securities fraud. The court held that the SEC’s in-house tribunal violated the Seventh Amendment “right to a trial by jury.”  

New Rule Moves US Government Closer To Creating A Trump State

February 17, 2026 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. , , ,
On February 6, President Donald Trump's administration took a major step toward transforming the merit system for civil service employees so that it functions more like a “patronage spoils system.” If successful, the administration would effectively establish a Trump state that could influence or undermine government well beyond Trump's current term. It would also effectively complete a project that President Richard Nixon failed to accomplish because of Watergate. Trump’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) finalized its “Schedule Policy/Career” (Schedule P/C) rule so that the administration may reclassify tens of thousands of jobs as "policy-influencing positions" and fire those employees at will if they are not politically or personally loyal to the administration. 

Committee To Protect Journalists Scrapped ‘Impunity Index’

February 16, 2026 Press TV, Orinoco Tribune. , , , , ,
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a US nonprofit organization based in New York City, has discontinued its annual Global Impunity Index, a decision that current and former staff members say was motivated by a desire to avoid highlighting Israel’s leading role in unpunished killings of journalists amid its genocidal war against the people of Gaza. According to whistleblowers speaking to The Electronic Intifada, CPJ CEO Jodie Ginsberg canceled the index last August in a calculated move to prevent Israel from topping the list. The Impunity Index, published since 2008, ranks countries by the rate of unsolved murders of journalists relative to population over a 10-year rolling period

Department Of Homeland Security Calls Leaks A Threat

February 14, 2026 Caitlyn Vogus, Freedom of the Press Foundation. , , ,
The Department of Homeland Security secretary calls leakers a threat to national security and wants to prosecute them. But much of what the public knows about DHS, which includes its agencies Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, is thanks to whistleblowers and leakers who have exposed the government’s increasingly unlawful conduct as it aggressively enforces immigration law across the country. In recent months, a series of major investigations into DHS, ICE, and CBP have relied on insiders who provided documents and information to journalists. Journalists, in turn, published what the public would otherwise never see.

Gaza Aid Whistleblower Arrested For Interrupting Senate Hearing

September 7, 2025 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. , , , , , , ,
Two United States military veterans, including a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) whistleblower, were arrested for interrupting a Senate Foreign Affairs Committee hearing. They said “the U.S. government is complicit” in the Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza and were quickly removed by U.S. Capitol police. GHF whistleblower Anthony Aguilar stood up. “You have an obligation to the Constitution of the United States.” Former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Josephine Guilbeau also spoke up. “Israel is ethnically cleansing Gaza. They’re building a concentration camp!” Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman James Risch declared, “Off to jail,” and when he hear Guilbeau, “Someone else is anxious to go to jail.”

Judges Weigh Appeal By Whistleblower Who Exposed Cover-Up Of War Crimes

March 30, 2025 Joe Lauria, Consortium News. , , , , ,
A three-judge panel in the Australian capital is weighing an appeal by whistleblower David McBride that could determine if a soldier’s duty is to serve the public or only his superior officers even if it means covering up evidence of his nation’s war crimes. The judges are also considering the question of whether Australian soldiers owe their allegiance to the British crown or to the people of Australia. The three Court of Appeal judges have been deliberating for four weeks to determine if the trial judge erred in not permitting McBride a public interest defense.

An Unpardonable Process

March 3, 2025 John Kiriakou, Consortium News. , , , , ,
To the surprise of likely nobody who knows me, I asked former President Joe Biden for a presidential pardon before he left office. And to the surprise of likely nobody who knows Joe Biden, I was ignored. I always knew that my chances of a pardon were very poor. But I thought that I at least had a shot for a number of reasons. First, as background, I was convicted in 2012 of violating the obscure Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982. I was only the second person ever charged with violating this law. The other person confessed to spying against the U.S. for Ghana.

Biden’s Legacy: Fundamentally Changing Nothing For Whistleblowers

January 15, 2025 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. , , , ,
When Joe Biden was vice president under President Barack Obama, he was part of an administration that waged an unprecedented war on leaks. President Biden may not have been as zealous as Obama, however, he periodically harnessed the very machinery that Obama and President Donald Trump wielded to enforce secrecy and silence whistleblowers. With the Espionage Act, the Obama Justice Department prosecuted more United States government employees and contractors who disclosed information to the press than all previous presidents combined.

Whistleblower Demands Governor Fix ‘Completely Unregulated’ Fracking Wastewater Network

December 23, 2024 Justin Nobel, DeSmog. , , , , , ,
A whistleblowing Pennsylvania oil and gas worker, together with the state’s former lead environmental regulator, are ringing the alarm bell on an unregulated and shadowy network of pipelines at least hundreds, and perhaps even thousands of miles long. The pipeline system was constructed over the past decade by oil and gas operators in Pennsylvania to transport toxic and radioactive fracking wastewater. “There is no oversight,” says Robert Green, who works in southwestern Pennsylvania as a hydrostatic tester, a niche job in the industry that involves assuring pipelines can appropriately handle the complex and often hazardous fuels and waste streams they contain.

Whistleblower Daniel Hale’s First Interview

December 11, 2024 Lee Camp, Popular Resistance. , , , ,
Welcome to Dangerous Ideas. Today, I'm excited to talk to whistleblower Daniel Hale. This is his first live interview since being released from prison and you may recall that he was the one who revealed the information that ultimately became the Drone Papers and gave so much information to the American people that we needed to know about our government and about the behavior of our government and our military. For that he received one of the harshest punishments that we've seen for a whistleblower in this country. The stat that sticks with me is that 90% of those killed by drone attacks are unintended targets, meaning innocent people.

Soldier Who Self-Immolated Wins Sam Adams Award

November 4, 2024 Consortium News. , , , , , ,
The Sam Adams Associates are pleased to announce United States Air Force Senior Airman Aaron Bushnell as the recipient of the 2024 Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence. Bushnell was a cyber defense operations specialist with the 531st Intelligence Squadron at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. He was assigned to the 70th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing at Fort Meade in Maryland. Senior Airman (SRA) Bushnell martyred himself when he walked up to the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 25, 2024, while streaming himself as he approached, and then self-immolated in protest of what Israel is doing to Palestinians, the most extreme form of protest.

FBI Sued For Withholding Files On Assange And WikiLeaks

September 13, 2024 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. , , ,
The civil liberties organization Defending Rights and Dissent sued the FBI and United States Justice Department for withholding records on WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange. “For nearly a decade and a half, we’ve been trying to get at the truth about the U.S. government’s war on WikiLeaks,” declared Chip Gibbons, the policy director for Defending Rights and Dissent. Gibbons added, “With the legal persecution of Julian Assange finally over, the FBI must come clean to the American people.” On June 25, 2024, U.S. government attorneys submitted a plea agreement [PDF] in the U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands after Assange agreed to plead guilty to one conspiracy charge under the U.S. Espionage Act.

Perdue Seeks To Dismantle Tribunals For Whistleblower Complaints

September 2, 2024 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. , , ,
Poultry manufacturer Perdue Farms Inc. sued the United States Labor Department and whistleblower Craig Watts, who has pursued litigation through the department’s administrative process for nearly a decade. The corporation now maintains that this administrative process is unconstitutional. “Their suit could demolish whistleblower protections across issues [including] food safety, railroad and aviation safety, shareholder fraud, and environmental protection,” warned the Government Accountability Project (GAP), which represents Watts, a former Perdue chicken grower. Administrative proceedings in Watts’ case were previously scheduled to begin on April 14, 2025.

Experts Warn Julian Assange Plea Deal Could Set Dangerous Precedent

June 26, 2024 Alexandra Topping, The Guardian. , , ,
The next UK government must push the US for reassurance it will not pursue journalists for publishing classified information, human rights organisations and experts have argued after the release of Julian Assange. Experts have warned that the plea deal struck between the WikiLeaks founder and the US authorities – which will see him plead guilty to one charge under the Espionage Act, but avoid serving any additional time in custody – could set a dangerous precedent. Assange, who has battled his extradition to the US since WikiLeaks published more than 250,000 leaked classified military and diplomatic documents in 2010, was facing up to 175 years in prison on 18 counts.

Red Hill Whistleblower Details How Her Warnings Were Ignored

June 25, 2024 Christina Jedra, Honolulu Civil Beat. , , , , , ,
As the new director for the U.S. military’s largest fuel depot in May 2020, she realized almost immediately that something was wrong. The fire suppression system for the massive Honolulu storage system, which was holding 100 million gallons of fuel, was essentially turned off. Firefighting foam necessary to put out a potential fuel fire had been removed by officials who feared a leak could contaminate the drinking water aquifer below, she said. As a result, those working in the facility’s underground tunnels, and those residing in surrounding neighborhoods, were at risk of facing an out-of-control blaze, she said. So Bencs did what the Navy itself had trained her to do: She said something.
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