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Edward Snowden Travels The World

July 4, 2016 Andrew Rice, www.nymag.com , ,
By Andrew Rice for NY Magazine - Edward Snowden lay on his back in the rear of a Ford Escape, hidden from view and momentarily unconscious, as I drove him to the Whitney museum one recent morning to meet some friends from the art world. Along West Street, clotted with traffic near the memorial pools of the World Trade Center, a computerized voice from my iPhone issued directions via the GPS satellites above. Snowden’s lawyer, Ben Wizner of the American Civil Liberties Union, was sitting shotgun, chattily recapping his client’s recent activities. For a fugitive wanted by the FBI for revealing classified spying programs who lives in an undisclosed location in Russia

Whistleblower James Sterling Completes First Year Of Unjust Sentence

June 20, 2016 Cornel West and Holly Sterling, www.huffingtonpost.com
By Cornel West and Holly Sterling for The Huffington Post - Yesterday, June 16th, marked one year since Jeffrey Sterling began his 3.5 year prison sentence for divulging classified information to a New York Times journalist, a crime he did not commit. One year he was deprived of the freedom that so many of us take for granted every day; one year separated from his loving wife, his friends and his family, and one year of wasted talent as a licensed attorney, a former CIA case officer fluent in Farsi, and a successful investigator who uncovered over 32 million dollars in healthcare fraud.

EPA Official Covered Up Methane Leakage Problems

June 9, 2016 Jim Warren, www.fsm2016.org , , ,
By Jim Warren for NC Warn - Durham, NC – A watchdog group today charged that a high-ranking federal official connected to the fossil fuel industry committed scientific fraud and possibly criminal misconduct in a case with sweeping ramifications for global climate change and the safety of workers and neighbors of natural gas sites across much of the United States. The group called for an expedited investigation due to the urgent climate and safety implications of the EPA’s failure to curb widespread methane emissions.

FBI Whistleblowers Have No Legal Protection For Reporting Wrongdoing

June 8, 2016 Kevin Gosztola, www.shadowproof.com ,
By Kevin Gosztola for Shadow Proof - A Senate Judiciary Committee report concludes Federal Bureau of Investigation employees, including those in the intelligence community, “enjoy no legal protection for making reports of wrongdoing to supervisors or others in their chain of command.” It supports the passage of legislation to institute and expand whistleblower protections for FBI employees. In 2014, the Justice Department refused to adopt key reforms that would benefit FBI whistleblowers.

Gov Is Building Database To Predict Who Will Be Next Edward Snowden

June 6, 2016 Lauren C. Williams, www.thinkprogress.org ,
By Lauren C. Williams for Think Progress - While police departments flock to use technology that predicts crime, the U.S. military is building a database that goes a step further — predicting who is most likely to reveal state secrets. The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is developing a data system that collects information on government employees and contractors with security clearances in hopes of being able to pinpoint those with the potential to become whistleblowers, Defense One reported.

President Obama, Pardon Edward Snowden And Chelsea Manning

June 3, 2016 Trevor Timm, www.theguardian.com , , ,
By Trevor Timm for The Guardian - As he wraps up his presidency, it’s time for Barack Obama to seriously consider pardoning whistleblowers Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden. Last week, Manning marked her six-year anniversary of being behind bars. She’s now served more time than anyone who has leaked information to a reporter in history – and still has almost three decades to go on her sentence.

CIA ‘Accidentally’ Destroyed Torture Report?

May 27, 2016 Carey Wedler, www.theantimedia.org , , ,
By Carey Wedler for ANTIMEDIA - The world’s most famous whistleblower, Edward Snowden, took Twitter by storm when he created an account last year. Since, he has criticized everyone from the FBI to Google, so his latest post on the CIA should come as no surprise. Commenting on revelations the CIA “inadvertently” destroyed a copy of the 6,700-page torture report, Snowden questioned the agency’s official story.

How The Pentagon Punished NSA Whistleblowers

May 23, 2016 Mark Hertsgaard, www.theguardian.com , ,
By Mark Hertsgaard for The Guardian - By now, almost everyone knows what Edward Snowden did. He leaked top-secret documents revealing that the National Security Agency was spying on hundreds of millions of people across the world, collecting the phone calls and emails of virtually everyone on Earth who used a mobile phone or the internet. When this newspaper began publishing the NSA documents in June 2013, it ignited a fierce political debate that continues to this day – about government surveillance, but also about the morality, legality and civic value of whistleblowing.

Poitras Film: Julian Assange’s Bid To Escape Extradition

May 22, 2016 Henry Barnes, www.theguardian.com , , ,
By Henry Barnes for the Guardian. Poitras presents her insider’s account of the WikiLeaks saga in Risk, a documentary that premiered this week at the Cannes film festival. Shot before, during and after the Snowden revelations, it is a partial reveal of the reveal. It brings the viewer into the room with the team of journalists, activists and hackers who helped – based on the leaks by Chelsea Manning and with the assistance of the Guardian – to expose exactly how scrutinised we are by the state. “He has a pretty extraordinary ability to withstand stress,” says Poitras. “Not that many people could withstand the pressure that he’s living under. He has to be able to hold it together, and he manages to.”

Whistleblower Fired For Exposing Flint Mayor’s Plan To Take Water Donations

May 14, 2016 Llowell Williams, www.care2.com , , ,
By Llowell Williams for Care 2 - Every time the Flint, Mich., water crisis seems to have finally hit rock bottom, a new development tosses that assumption out the window. A lawsuit filed this week claims Flint city administrator Natasha Henderson was fired by Mayor Karen Weaver unjustly, but why? According to Henderson’s lawyer, her dismissal came after becoming aware of allegations that Mayor Weaver had been instructing her staff to redirect donor funds to the mayor’s PAC — not the actual campaign aimed at helping Flint families.

Ex-Intelligence Analyst: We Need More Snowdens

May 14, 2016 Dan R. Sendik, www.wtsp.com ,
By Dan R. Sendik for WTSP - I was an active duty United States Marine working in Signals Intelligence in 2013 when Edward Snowden exposed the mass surveillance programs of the National Security Agency. Snowden’s alleged espionage had a lasting effect both on my work and on my attitude toward it. As a cryptologic linguist and intelligence analyst, my day-to-day activities were directly compromised when I was suddenly unable to use certain methods and tools due to the leak.

Panama Papers Source Steps Forward

May 7, 2016 www.panamapapers.icij.org ,
By Staff of ICIJ - The anonymous whistleblower behind the Panama Papers has conditionally offered to make the documents available to government authorities. In a statement issued to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the so-called “John Doe” behind the biggest information leak in history cites the need for better whistleblower protection and has hinted at even more revelations to come.

Snowden: Whistleblowing Is Not Just Leaking; Act Of Resistance

May 4, 2016 Edward Snowden, www.theintercept.com , ,
By Edward Snowden for The Intercept - I’VE BEEN WAITING 40 years for someone like you.” Those were the first words Daniel Ellsberg spoke to me when we met last year. Dan and I felt an immediate kinship; we both knew what it meant to risk so much — and to be irrevocably changed — by revealing secret truths. One of the challenges of being a whistleblower is living with the knowledge that people continue to sit, just as you did, at those desks, in that unit, throughout the agency, who see what you saw and comply in silence, without resistance or complaint.

The Honorable History Of Whistleblowing

April 24, 2016 Sam Smith, www.prorevnews.com , , ,
By Sam Smith of Progressive Review. Your editor has just returned from a meeting of the Fund for Constitutional Government which helps to support the Government Accountability Project, a big friend of government whistleblowers, including Edward Snowden. I asked GAP's sainted Louis Clark how many whistleblowers they were handling these days and his estimate was 50, with another 50 being assisted in some way. The media, embedded as it is in the official version of Washington life, doesn't let the public know how important whistleblowing is to decent government, not infrequently implying that revealing the truth is some sort of dirty - or disloyal - trick. This list of whistleblowers over the years, compile by GAP, may help to counterbalance the Washington view.

Newsletter – Building Toward Political Revolution

April 9, 2016 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. Of course, we also know the Panama Papers leak is about just one tax evasion firm, and not a major one. This is a small tip of a massive tax evasion iceberg. Estimates are that $7.6 trillion in individual assets are in tax havens, about one-tenth of the global GPD. The use of tax havens has grown 25 percent from 2009 to 2015.  Gabriel Zucman, author of The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens and assistant professor at UC Berkeley estimates that US citizens have at least $1.2 trillion stashed offshore, costing $200 billion a year worldwide in lost tax revenue and US transnational corporations are underpaying their taxes worldwide by $130 billion. The Panama Papers will escalate demands for transformation of the economy as well as of government; continue to increase pressure on capitalism and result in the growth of the people powered movement for economic justice.
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