Whistleblowers

Whistleblowers Claim Popular Asthma Drug Was Marketed Illegally

March 14, 2016 Martha Rosenberg, www.alternet.org Educate! Big Pharma, health, Whistleblowers

By Martha Rosenberg for AlterNet - Asthma is big business for Big Pharma. Advair was the third best selling drug in the world in 2013 and the asthma drugs Singulair and Symbicort were also blockbusters. So it is no surprise the prospect of a high-tech injectable drug that stops an allergic response by binding to Immunoglobulin E (IgE) made Big Pharma sit up and take notice. Xolair (omalizumab), developed from humanized rodent cells (yes, you read that right), is part of Big Pharma's new wave of bio-engineered liquid drugs...

Journalists Should Stand Up For Whistleblowers

February 29, 2016 Timothy Karr, www.otherwords.org Organize! Journalism, Whistleblowers

By Timothy Karr for Other Words - The Obama administration’s ongoing crusade against government whistleblowers — which culminated last year in the imprisonment of former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling — has reignited a debate over the role journalists should play in defending their profession and the sources and networks on which it depends. Sterling’s serving a three-and-half-year prison term for a conviction built primarily on circumstantial evidence — a heavy sentence, though less than the draconian 24 years the government originally sought.

Subprime Mortgage Whistleblowers Warn Bigger Crash On Its Way

February 22, 2016 Jessica Desvarieux, www.therealnews.com Educate! Mortgage Fraud, Whistleblowers

By Jessica Desvarieux for The Real News - Whistleblowers Richard Bowen and Michael Winston, along with UMKC's Bill Black, discuss the rampant fraud at Countrywide and Citigroup and how today's high foreclosure rates in states like Nevada could be a sign of what's to come

Pardon Jeffrey Sterling, CIA Whistleblower

February 18, 2016 Reporters Without Borders, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! CIA, Jeffrey Sterling, John Kiriakou, Whistleblowers

By Reporters WIthout Borders. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) delivered yesterday with the wife of CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling a petition for his pardon to the White House. The petition has now gathered over 150,000 signatures. Sterling, a former C.I.A. operative and the latest victim in the Obama administration’s war on whistleblowers, was convicted in January 2015 of divulging classified information to New York Times journalist James Risen. Jeffrey Sterling was convicted under the Espionage Act for merely communicating with New York Times journalist James Risen. He’s now serving a 3.5-year prison sentence in a federal correctional facility in Colorado.

A Grandma Drone Resister’s Letter From Prison

February 16, 2016 Mary Anne Grady Flores, www.alternet.org Resist! Drones, Political Prisoner, Whistleblowers

By Mary Anne Grady Flores for AlterNet - Joy swept through our cell block, Jamesville County Jail, Pod 4, Thursday, January 28. That evening some of the 59 women in our pod rushed up and knocked on my cell door. They reported the six o’clock news had shown 12 drone resisters handcuffed, sitting on a roadside curb, waiting to be taken into custody. I just started my six-month sentence on January 19, for photographing protesters of the drone warfare directed out of Hancock Air Base in nearby Syracuse, New York. These eight protestors, many of whom are Catholic Workers, were later acquitted.

Flint Whistleblowers Who Exposed Their Poisoned Water

February 9, 2016 Larry Gabriel, www.yesmagazine.org Resist! Flint, Lead Poisoning, Water, Whistleblowers

By Larry Gabriel for Yes Magazine - The actions of a small group of dedicated activists in the Coalition for Clean Water led to the revelation that Flint, Michigan, residents were being poisoned by lead-contaminated water. The activists had been living with the yellow, brown, and red water flowing from their taps even as government officials denied it and the same poisoned water flowed from the taps at government buildings. The activists, whose different organizations came together to form the coalition, organized, strategized, did water research and testing to expose the government’s lies.

Announcing Bank Whistleblowers’ Group’s Initial Proposals

January 30, 2016 William K. Black, www.neweconomicperspectives.org Resist! Banking and Finance, Banks, Whistleblowers

By William K. Black for New Economic Perspectives - I am writing to announce the formation of a new group and a policy initiative that we hope many of our readers will support and help publicize. Gary Aguirre, Bill Black, Richard Bowen, and Michael Winston are the founding members of the Bank Whistleblowers’ Group. We are all from the general field of finance and we are all whistleblowers who are unemployable in finance and financial regulation because we spoke truth to power and committed the one unforgivable sin of being repeatedly proved correct.

Bar Goes After Whistleblower, Exposed Warrantless Wiretapping

January 30, 2016 Kevin Gosztola, www.shadowproof.com Resist! DC, DOJ, Whistleblowers

By Kevin Gosztola for Shadow Proof - When the Justice Department ended its investigation into Thomas Tamm in 2011, the Justice Department whistleblower who revealed warrantless wiretapping said it was a relief that a “long ordeal” was now over. But it turns out the “ordeal” has entered a new chapter. He now faces ethics violations for blowing the whistle on illegal surveillance. The District of Columbia Bar, a body with the power to discipline lawyers who violate ethical standards and rules of professional conduct, initiated disciplinary proceedings for Tamm for revealing “secrets” or “confidences” of his “client” to New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau.

Stratfor In Hiding Due To Protests?

January 15, 2016 Kit O'Connell, www.mintpressnews.com Resist! Jeremy Hammond, Privacy, spying, Stratfor, Whistleblowers

By Kit O'Connell for Mint Press News - AUSTIN, Texas — In what’s become an annual tradition, activists gathered in downtown Austin on Friday to celebrate the birthday of a political prisoner and hacktivist nearly forgotten and ignored by the mainstream media: Jeremy Hammond. In 2012, Hammond, along with other members of the Anonymous-associated group Lulzsec, hacked millions of emails from the servers of the Strategic Forecasting, also known as Stratfor, a private intelligence corporation located in the city, and leaked them to WikiLeaks, where they became known as the “Global Intelligence Files.”

War On Whistleblowers Paves Way For Global Press Crackdown

January 1, 2016 Chip Gibbons, www.bordc.org Educate! Media, Whistleblowers

By Chip Gibbons for BORDC - On December 28, 2015 the British newspaper The Guardian published an op-ed by Turkish journalist Can Dündar. Dündar has become a rallying cry for the global movement for press freedoms as he faces two life sentences for treason and espionage. His crime? The newspaper Dündar is editor-in-chief-of, Cumhuriyet Daily, obtained video evidence that he claims confirms what has long been suspected: that Turkish intelligence services are illegally carrying weapons into war-torn Syria. The condemnation of the Turkish state for criminalizing journalism as “espionage” and “treason” drew widespread criticisms from international human rights groups, global press freedom watchdogs, and foreign governments.

Killer Drone News Blackout, Media Ignore Whistleblowers

December 7, 2015 John Hanrahan, www.exposefacts.org Educate! Drones, United States, Whistleblowers

By John Hanrahan for Expose Facts - The polls show it and commentators of all political stripes often cite the figures: Killer drone attacks by the U.S. military and the CIA in the Greater Middle East and Africa have strong U.S. public support. According to the Pew Research Center’s most recent poll in May, 58 percent — up slightly from 56 percent in February 2013 — approve of “missile strikes from drones to target extremists in such countries as Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.” The numbers of Americans disapproving of drone attacks actually increased from 26 percent to 35 percent over that two-year period — a hopeful sign, but still very much a minority view.

Take Action For Drone Whistleblowers Under Attack

December 1, 2015 ToBlome, www.popularresistance.org Petitions and Online Actions Accountability, Drones, Wars and Militarism, Whistleblowers

From Toby Blome of CODEPINK. Code Pink Women for Peace support the very courageous actions of four former US drone operators, Michael Haas, Brandon Bryant, Cian Westmoreland, and Stephan Lewis, who have come under increasing attack for disclosing information about “widespread corruption and institutionalized indifference to civilian casualties that characterize the drone program.” As truth tellers, they stated in a public letter to President Obama that the killing of innocent civilians has been one of the most “devastating driving forces for terrorism and destabilization around the world.”* These public disclosures come only after repeated attempts to work privately within official channels failed. Despite the fact that none of the four has been charged with criminal activity, all had their bank accounts and credit cards frozen. This retaliatory response by our government is consistent with the extrajudicial nature of US drone strikes.

HSBC Whistleblower Sentenced To 5 Years In Prison

November 29, 2015 Andrew Emett, www.nationofchange.org Resist! Banking, Finance and the Economy, Whistleblowers

By Andrew Emett for Nation of Change. A former HSBC employee was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for aggravated industrial espionage. Although HSBC claims the whistleblower initially stole the information for his own personal financial gain, his revelations exposed international fraud, tax evasion, and money-laundering scams involving thousands of corrupt businessmen and arms dealers. While developing a client management database for HSBC’s Swiss private bank in 2004, Hervé Falciani was handed access to extremely sensitive and incriminating data. According to the private bank accounts, HSBC was allowing criminal organizations to launder their blood money while turning a blind eye to affluent clients committing tax evasion. Instead of ignoring the data, Falciani brought his laptop into work and downloaded the details of approximately 130,000 HSBC accounts. On December 11, 2014, the Swiss government indicted Falciani for violating the country’s bank secrecy laws and committing industrial espionage. Instead of extraditing Falciani or filing charges against him, the French government opened a criminal investigation into HSBC. Refusing to appear in Swiss court, Falciani dismissed the legal proceedings against him as a “parody of justice.” Convicted in absentia, Falciani was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for committing the largest leak in banking history.

Drone Pilots’ Bank Accounts And Credit Cards Frozen By Feds

November 28, 2015 William N. Grigg, www.thefreethoughtproject.com Resist! Whistleblowers

By William N. Grigg for The Free Thought Project - The U.S. Government failed to deter them through threats of criminal prosecution, and clumsy attempts to intimidate their families. Now four former Air Force drone operators-turned-whistleblowers have had their credit cards and bank accounts frozen, according to human rights attorney Jesselyn Radack. “My drone operators went public this week and now their credit cards and bank accounts are frozen,” Radack lamented on her Twitter feed (the spelling of her post has been conventionalized). This was done despite the fact that none of them has been charged with a criminal offense – but this is a trivial formality in the increasingly Sovietesque American National Security State.

Despite US Pressure, EU Parliament Clears Path For Snowden Asylum

October 30, 2015 Kevin Gosztola, www.shadowproof.com Educate! Edward Snowden, Whistleblowers

By Kevin Gosztola for Shadow Proof - In the face of global pressure from the United States, the European Parliament passed a resolution which may pave the way for a European Union country to grant asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. By a vote of 285 to 281, members of Parliament called on EU member states to “drop any criminal charges against Edward Snowden, grant him protection and consequently prevent extradition or rendition by third parties, in recognition of his status as whistle-blower and international human rights defender.” Snowden described the development as a “game-changer” and added, “This is not a blow against the U.S. government, but an open hand extended by friends. It is a chance to move forward.”

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