Whistleblowers

Happy 29th Birthday, Chelsea Manning

December 17, 2016 Chase Strangio, www.medium.com" Resist! Barack Obama, Chelsea Manning, Pardons, Transgender, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks

By Chase Strangio for Medium. Our greatest wish for Chelsea Manning on her birthday and every day is that she is pardoned and released from prison. Join us in wishing her a happy birthday by urging President Obama to pardon her. Chelsea has shown herself to be an amazing person who sees injustice and works to change it. In her time since her arrest she has evolved and grown. Now she has become a leading voice for the trans movement. There is so much progress in that area and some of the credit for ameliorating discrimination against trans people goes to Chelsea who has stood up for her rights, and by doing so, the rights of others, under very difficult circumstances. We are confident that Chelsea will continue to evolve and grow; and continue to show leadership in her coming years. Happy birthday to Chelsea.

NSA Watchdog Removed For Whistleblower Retaliation

December 16, 2016 Adam Zagorin, www.pogo.org Educate! NSA, Whistleblowers

By Adam Zagorin for POGO - Until just a few months ago, George Ellard occupied a position of trust as top watchdog of the National Security Agency, America’s principal collector of signals intelligence. Ellard was not only NSA’s Inspector General, but an outspoken critic of Edward Snowden, the former contract employee who leaked hundreds of thousands of classified emails to publicly expose the agency’s domestic surveillance program. Snowden claimed, among other things, that his concerns about NSA’s domestic eavesdropping were ignored by the agency, and that he feared retaliation. Ellard publicly argued in 2014 that Snowden could have safely reported the allegations of NSA’s domestic surveillance directly to him.

‘He Will Fight To The Last Breath’: Julian Assange’s Mother Speaks Out

December 10, 2016 Kerrie Armstrong, www.sbs.com.au Educate! Julian Assange, Whistleblowers

By Kerrie Armstrong for SBS - Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's mother Christine has told SBS News she feels "angry" but she's still fighting six years after her son was arrested in relation to sexual assault allegations. Assange handed himself in to police in London on December 2010 and was released on bail. However, in June 2012 he broke his bail and sought asylum in the Ecuadorean embassy in London over fears he would be extradited to the US to face possible espionage charges. Since then police have kept the embassy surrounded, preventing him from leaving to Ecuador.

Chelsea Manning Makes Appeal For Release Before Trump Takes Office

November 16, 2016 Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com Create! Chelsea Manning, Commutations, political prisoners, Whistleblowers

By Ed Pilkington for The Guardian - Former US soldier serving 35 years in prison for leaking state secrets asks Barack Obama to commute her sentence to time served. Chelsea Manning has made a last-ditch appeal to Barack Obama to commute her sentence for leaking state secrets to time served, calling on him to release her from military prison so that she can have her “first chance to live a real, meaningful life”.

US Insiders – Not Russia – Leaked Clinton Emails

November 4, 2016 Staff, www.informationclearinghouse.info Educate! Hillary Clinton, Leak, Whistleblowers

By Staff of WashingtonsBlog - Today, the NSA executive who created the agency’s mass surveillance program for digital information, who served as the senior technical director within the agency, who managed six thousand NSA employees, the 36-year NSA veteran widely regarded as a “legend” within the agency and the NSA’s best-ever analyst and code-breaker, who mapped out the Soviet command-and-control structure before anyone else knew how, and so predicted Soviet invasions before they happened

Jeremy Hammond: Reflections From The SHU

October 19, 2016 Jeremy Hammond, www.freejeremy.net Resist! political prisoners, Prisons, Whistleblowers

By Jeremy Hammond for Free Jeremy - “When are you going to start doing your time right?” one of the prison administrators tell me on their weekly rounds of the Special Housing Unit. I’m back in SHU again, this time for making hooch. I explain one or two disciplinary shots a year is really what you should expect out of a medium-security prisoner. Seems like all of my comrades behind bars are in solitary these days.

WikiLeaks Should Be Applauded For Removing Mask Of U.S. Power

October 17, 2016 Eric Ortiz, www.truthdig.com Resist! Whistleblowers, Wikileaks

By Eric Ortiz for Truth Dig - The latest chapter of WikiLeaks’ courage is exposing the cowardice of the United States political system. Julian Assange should be praised for having the guts to stand up to power and reveal how the sausage gets made in Washington, D.C. His journalism—and that is what WikiLeaks is doing—is a public service. Instead, the Podesta emails have reconfirmed a sad truth: There are more characters on Mahogany Row than character. Right about now, many of them are looking for the real-life Winston Wolf.

The Government Science Of Preventing Whistleblowers From Speaking Out

October 16, 2016 Lucas Dare, www.wakingtimes.com Educate! Whistleblowers

By Lucas Dare for Waking Times. John F. Kennedy was outspoken against the secret government growing behind the curtains of American democracy. In his address to American publishers and the media in 1961, two years prior to his public assassination, he remarked about the nature of secrecy and the dangers of allowing our government to operate without our consent and beyond our knowledge, warning the press to consider the importance of their role in protecting American liberty from the emergence of the Deep State. In essence, JFK was the first major American whistleblower. “The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings.” ~John F. Kennedy Today, as the world hangs on every Wikileaks release coming from Edward Snowden, it is clear that the role of whistleblower in our society is critical to the survival of freedom, and also clear the public demands the truth. There is a definitive science to preventing and destroying whistleblowers which includes a continuum of intimidation tactics that are very effective at keeping government employees from going public with information.

Snowden 2.0: NSA Contractor Arrested For Stealing Malware

October 6, 2016 Staff, www.rt.com Resist! Edward Snowden, NSA, Whistleblowers

By Staff of RT - The FBI "secretly arrested” a National Security Agency contractor on suspicion of stealing and revealing malware the NSA used to hack foreign governments, according to The Justice Department. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden confirmed the existence of the malware, which was leaked in August. Portions of the classified computer codes used by the NSA were posted online, with hacking group “ShadowBrokers” offering the full program up for sale. US officials have blamed the hack on Russia

CIA Whistleblower Kiriakou Honored For Integrity

October 5, 2016 Ray McGovern, www.consortiumnews.com Resist! CIA, Whistleblowers

By Ray McGovern for Consortium News - The U.S. government gives free passes to officials who commit war crimes but imprisons whistleblowers who tell the truth, a fate that befell CIA’s John Kiriakou for disclosing torture. But he was honored by some ex-intelligence officers, reports Ray McGovern. Former CIA official John Kiriakou, who spent two years in prison for revealing the truth about White House-sanctioned torture, became the 15th recipient of the Sam Adams Award for Integrity at a ceremony at America University.

Europe’s Top Human Rights Court Considers Legality Of Actions By Edward Snowden

October 4, 2016 Ryan Gallagher, www.theintercept.com Educate! Courts, Edward Snowden, Europe, Whistleblowers

By Ryan Gallagher for The Intercept - HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS have launched a major new legal challenge over mass surveillance programs revealed by the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. Ten organizations — including Privacy International, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Amnesty International — are taking up the landmark case against the U.K. government in the European Court of Human Rights (pictured above).

Obama Should Pardon All Leakers And Whistleblowers

October 3, 2016 Peter Maass, www.theintercept.com Create! Barack Obama, Pardons, Whistleblowers

By Peter Maass for The Intercept - But this story is not about the excellent reasons for thanking rather than locking up the two most famous whistleblowers of the post-9/11 era. Plenty of people are already calling for that in powerful ways. A new petition on Snowden’s behalf has been signed by Twitter’s Jack Dorsey as well as Steve Wozniak, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Aragorn (also known as Viggo Mortensen).

Justice For Chelsea Manning And Edward Snowden

September 21, 2016 Scott Tucker, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Barack Obama, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Pardons, Socialism, Whistleblowers

By Scott Tucker for Popular Resistance.org. Manning’s situation in prison is indeed urgent, we can expect the corporate state and career politicians to respond to such cases with miserly pardons and small portions of charity. In the last days of his presidency, Obama has been pardoning some deserving people, and he could easily include both Manning and Snowden (among other honorable whistleblowers like John Kiriakou) with the stroke of a pen. But this president only finds his “courage” on a dwindling timeline, and is stingy as a banker in spending political capital. Why would this Nobel Peace Prize winner pardon citizens who have already paid a heavy price in exile and prison for their own sacrifices on behalf of peace and democracy? To ask the question is to answer it. Under Obama’s “progressive” administration, we have witnessed a vast expansion of state surveillance and of bombing by drones. Of course, we should still support any public campaign urging holders of high offices to show more courage. But let’s also be honest. We are talking about the kind of courage that could end careers in the capitalist parties. A fraction of the ruling class does become class conscious, and sometimes will take just such risks. The exceptions prove the rule. The drive toward war and empire is bipartisan and corporate.

Whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling Appears To Have Suffered A Heart Attack in Prison

September 20, 2016 John Kiriakou, www.readersupportednews.org Resist! Prison, Prisoner rights, Whistleblowers

By John Kiriakou for Reader Supported News - I’ve written a couple of articles recently, here and here, about CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling and his battle to get adequate medical care while incarcerated in the Federal Correctional Institution at Englewood, Colorado. Jeffrey has a history of atrial fibrillation. He has had several medical “episodes” in prison related to his heart, and prison officials have refused to allow him to see an outside cardiologist or to go to a hospital for tests.

Whistleblower: NATO’s Leading Ally Is Arming And Funding ISIS

September 19, 2016 Nafeez Ahmed, www.informationclearinghouse.info Educate! Funding, ISIS, NATO, Whistleblowers

By Nafeez Ahmed for Information Clearing House - September 18, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - "Medium" - A former senior counter-terrorism official in Turkey has blown the whistle on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s deliberate sponsorship of the Islamic State (ISIS) as a geopolitical tool to expand Turkey’s regional influence and sideline his political opponents at home. Ahmet Sait Yayla was Chief of the Counter-Terrorism and Operations Division of Turkish National Police between 2010 and 2012, before becoming Chief of the Public Order and Crime Prevention Division until 2014.

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