Whistleblowers

Whistleblowers In Canada Could Receive Awards Exceeding $1 Million

October 29, 2015 Roisin Davis, www.truthdig.com Resist! Canada, Whistleblowers

By Roisin Davis for Truth Dig - Whistleblowers in Canada could receive awards in excess of $1 million for exposing corporate wrongdoing as part of a formal policy being unveiled Wednesday by the Ontario Securities Commission. Tom Atkinson, the commission’s director of enforcement, announced Monday that the awards could be larger in some cases, especially if more than $10 million in Canadian dollars was collected under the scheme. Canada’s Financial Post reports: [Atkinson] said he could not elaborate until the formal policy is unveiled, but suggested that qualifying for the higher amount would likely be tied to the collection of sanctions or settlement payments, rather than simply the assessment of money due.

Edward Snowden Weighs In On CISA: “It’s A Surveillance Bill.”

October 28, 2015 Staff, www.tumblr.fightforthefuture.org Educate! Edward Snowden, Rights, Surveillance, Whistleblowers

By Staff of Fight For The Future - WASHINGTON - Last night, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden joined Fight for the Future’s Q&A session on reddit to weigh in on the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA,) the controversial “cybersecurity” bill that is expected to see a vote on the Senate floor this afternoon. “CISA isn't a cybersecurity bill,” Snowden wrote in the reddit “IAmA” thread, “It's not going to stop any attacks. It's not going to make us any safer. It's a surveillance bill. What it allows is for the companies you interact with every day -- visibly, like Facebook, or invisibly, like AT&T -- to indiscriminately share private records about your interactions and activities with the government.”

UN Calls For Greater Protection Of Whistleblowers

October 24, 2015 Staff, www.ohchr.org Resist! United Nations, Whistleblowers

By Staff of OHCHR - The Special Rapporteur’s report to the UN General Assembly in 2015 is now online. This report, the latest among several produced by the mandate over the past twenty years to consider rights of access to information, focuses on the protection of sources and whistleblowers around the world. It reviews national and international laws and practices and provides recommendations to improve available protections. As part of the preparations for this report, the Special Rapporteur issued calls for submissions from Governments and Civil Society. The Special Rapporteur is pleased to acknowledge the many States and NGOs that responded to this call, which may be found below.

Newsletter – A People United Will Never Be Defeated

October 18, 2015 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Afghanistan, Climate Justice, Drones, Exxon, Food and Agriculture, Indigenous Peoples, Israel-Palestine, Kunduz, Mass Incarceration, Palestinians, Racism, TPP, War crimes, Wars and Militarism, Whistleblowers

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. This week, hundreds of thousands rallied in Washington, DC for the Million Man March, more information became available regarding US war crimes, we celebrated the second annual People's Climate March and World Food Day and we are preparing a mass mobilization to protest the TransPacific Partnership. Popular Resistance is collaborating with a growing number of organizations and people to protest the TransPacific Partnership and other international treaties that will prevent us from achieving success in our struggles for racial, economic and environmental justice. We are planning a mass mobilization in Washington, DC this November to show the large and diverse opposition to agreements that force us to sacrifice the health and safety of our communities for corporate profits. There will be two days of action preparation followed by three full days of creative events. You are invited to participate in any way that you can.

The Sad Fate Of America’s Whistleblowers

October 18, 2015 John Kiriakou, www.otherwords.org Resist! Whistleblowers

By John Kiriakou for Otherwords - What is it about whistleblowers that the powers that be can’t stand? When I blew the whistle on the CIA’s illegal torture program, I was derided in many quarters as a traitor. My detractors in the government attacked me for violating my secrecy agreement, even as they ignored the oath we’d all taken to protect and defend the Constitution. It’s not just government employees either. Whistleblowers first brought attention to wrongdoing at Enron, Lehman Brothers, Stanford International Bank, and elsewhere. And what’s their reward? Across the board, whistleblowers are investigated, harassed, fired, and in some cases prosecuted. That’s the conclusion of author Eyal Press, whose book Beautiful Souls: The Courage and Conscience of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times documents the struggles of whistleblowers throughout history. Press’s whistleblowers never recover financially or professionally from their actions. History seems to smile on them, but during their lifetimes they remain outcasts.

Snowden & Ellsberg Hail New Drone Whistleblower

October 18, 2015 Tom McCarthy , www.theguardian.com Resist! Daniel Ellsberg, Drones, Edward Snowden, Wars and Militarism, Whistleblowers

By Tom McCarthy for the Guardian - American whistleblowers hailed the release on Thursday of a collection of classified documents about US drone warfare as a blow on behalf of transparency and human rights. “It’s wonderful,” Ellsberg said. “I waited 40 years to see somebody, for Chelsea Manning, to put out a comprehensive, sufficiently voluminous number of long-held secrets, enough to make the case clear. “I waited 40 years for Chelsea. Three more for Snowden. And so it’s wonderful that somebody is telling the truth about this series of crimes. I’m very glad to see it.” Edward Snowden, the former government contractor who in 2013 leaked classified documents about surveillance programs to journalist Glenn Greenwald – then at the Guardian, now at the Intercept – hailed the new leak on Twitter. Ellsberg said of the source: “I hope they stay anonymous. Nothing at all would be gained by their suffering the fate of exile like Snowden [who now lives in Russia], or isolation or imprisonment like Chelsea [who was given a 35-year jail term]. Or the life sentences that I faced, or that others have faced. “It comes down to this. Hundreds could have done what I did, literally. And should have. Hundreds of people could and should have done what Edward Snowden did. And hundreds of people could and should have done what Chelsea Manning did."

Whistleblower Fired From Whistleblower Protection Program

October 18, 2015 Carey Wedler, www.theantimedia.org Resist! Whistleblowers

By Carey Wedler for The Anti-Media - A former employee of the Whistleblower Protection Program claims he was fired for blowing the whistle on misconduct within the agency. The accusations highlight the government’s past and present attitudes towards those who inform the public of corruption within the system. Darrell Whitman worked for five years as an investigator for “Region 9” of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which administers the Whistleblower Protection Program. Region 9 encompasses California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii, and Guam, a U.S. territory. Whitman says he attempted to expose “bureaucratic dysfunction” within the agency that led to a failure to “defend workers who faced retaliation for reporting illegal activity and public safety concerns.” After being fired in May, he now claims he was terminated for his attempts to address these issues.

Whistleblow Wall Street: Platform To Expose Corruption

October 11, 2015 Staff, www.whistleblowwallstreet.com Resist! Corruption, Finance and the Economy, Wall Street, Whistleblowers

By Staff of Whistleblow Wallstreet - Whistleblow Wall Street provides a platform for banking and financial sector employees to blow the whistle on unfair practices and corruption. From call center workers that aren’t allowed to go to the bathroom, to bank tellers forced to sell predatory products because of unreasonable sales goals, to high level executives that are pressured and rewarded for engaging in illegal practices, Whistleblow Wall Street aims to help financial sector employees root out the worst practices in the financial industry. As we all now know, Wall Street banks wrecked the economy and brought the world to the brink of financial collapse. Meanwhile federal regulators were nowhere to be found, media organizations had already dismantled their investigative units, corporate compliance departments did not dare to question the profit centers, and the creators of highly leveraged securities stole billions of dollars. At WhistleblowWallStreet we are saying, “Never again!”

The Revolutionary Act Of Telling The Truth

October 4, 2015 John Pilger, www.johnpilger.com Educate! Julian Assange, Sarah Harrison, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks

By John PIlger - Real dissent has become exotic; yet those who dissent have never been more important. The book I am launching tonight, 'The WikiLeaks Files', is an antidote to a fascism that never speaks its name. It's a revolutionary book, just as WikiLeaks itself is revolutionary - exactly as Orwell meant in the quote I used at the beginning. For it says that we need not accept these the daily lies. We need not remain silent. Or as Bob Marley once sang: "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery." In the introduction, Julian Assange explains that it is never enough to publish the secret messages of great power: that making sense of them is crucial, as well as placing them in the context of today and historical memory. Never has such truth-telling been so urgently needed. With honourable exceptions, those in the media paid ostensibly to keep the record straight are now absorbed into a system of propaganda that is no longer journalism, but anti-journalism. This is true of the liberal and respectable as it is of Murdoch. Unless you are prepared to monitor and deconstruct every specious assertion, so-called news has become unwatchable and unreadable. Reading The WikiLeaks Files, I remembered the words of the late Howard Zinn, who often referred to "a power that governments can't suppress". That describes WikiLeaks, and it describes true whistleblowers who share their courage.

Blow The Whistle On Agribusiness, Ag-Gag Law Unconstitutional

August 7, 2015 Staff, www.centerforfoodsafety.org Resist! Agribusiness, Food and Agriculture, Whistleblowers

By Staff for the Center for Food Safety - Idaho’s Ag-Gag law is unconstitutional, the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho ruled today, overturning the law. In a landmark victory for a broad-based public interest coalition of national nonprofits, including Center for Food Safety (CFS), the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Idaho, the court held that the Ag-Gag law, Idaho Code sec. 18-7042, violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Today’s decision marks the first time a court has declared an Ag-Gag statute unconstitutional. “This is a huge victory for free speech, animal welfare, and food safety. Without the ability to witness and expose the illegal and unethical behavior that goes on in one of the nation’s most powerful industries, we are all vulnerable. This latest ruling affirms our right to report abuse in order to protect animals and our health,” said Paige Tomaselli, senior attorney for Center for Food Safety.

Chelsea Manning Legal Defense: First Look Media Matching Funds

July 16, 2015 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Chelsea Manning, Glenn Greenwald, Whistleblowers

By Staff for Popular Resistance - First Look Media’s Press Freedom Litigation Fund and the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) are announcing the launch of a matching fund campaign to support the legal defense of U.S. Army intelligence analyst turned whistleblower Chelsea Manning. First Look Media’s Press Freedom Litigation Fund will match $50,000 in donations to the campaign along with Glenn Greenwald, Intercept co-founder and journalist, who will personally match $10,000 for the initiative. Said Chelsea Manning: “Being in prison while trying to figure out how I will pay for my legal appeal has been a great source of stress and anxiety. I’m so honored that a new campaign is supporting me in my effort to vindicate my legal rights, and I am truly grateful to anyone who is helping.”

Judge Probes Claim Of Evidence Destruction In NSA Leak Prosecution

July 5, 2015 Marisa Taylor, www.newsobserver.com Resist! Courts, Criminal Justice, Thomas Drake, Whistleblowers

By Marisa Taylor for McClatchy News. A federal judge is investigating allegations that the government may have improperly destroyed documents during the high-profile media leak investigation of National Security Agency whistleblower Thomas Drake. U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephanie Gallagher’s inquiry was launched after Drake’s lawyers in April accused the Pentagon inspector general’s office of destroying possible evidence during Drake’s criminal prosecution, which ended almost four years ago, McClatchy has learned. In a May 13 letter, Gallagher told Justice Department lawyers that the judge who had presided over the case asked her to evaluate the allegations from Drake’s lawyers “for further investigation and to make recommendations as to whether any action by the court is warranted or appropriate.” The allegations raise new questions about a prosecution that had been excoriated by the presiding judge after the Justice Department’s case against Drake unraveled and resulted in the former senior NSA official pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge.

What Did NSA Leaks Change About Public Opinion?

June 13, 2015 David Sirota, www.ibtimes.com Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA, Public Opinion, Whistleblowers

By David Sirota in IB Times - Two years ago this month, a 29-year-old government contractor named Edward Snowden became the Daniel Ellsberg of his generation, delivering to journalists a tranche of secret documents shedding light on the government’s national security apparatus. But while Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers detailing one specific military conflict in Southeast Asia, Snowden released details of the U.S. government’s sprawling surveillance machine that operates around the globe. In the years since Snowden’s historic act of civil disobedience, the politics of surveillance have evolved. For much of the early 2000s, politicians of both parties competed to show who could be a bigger booster of the National Security Agency’s operations, fearing that any focus on civil liberties might make them look soft on terrorism.

Two Years Ago Today, Snowden Was In Hong Kong

June 5, 2015 Edward Snowden, www.ACLU.org Educate! Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, NSA, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks

By Edward Snowden for ACLU Action. Two years ago today, in a Hong Kong hotel room, three journalists and I waited nervously to see how the world would react to the revelation that the National Security Agency had been collecting records of nearly every phone call in the United States. Though we have come a long way, the right to privacy remains under attack. Last month, the NSA’s invasive call-tracking program was declared unlawful by a federal appeals court in ACLU v. Clapper, and it was disowned by Congress. And, after a White House investigation found that the program never stopped a single terrorist attack, even President Obama ordered it terminated. This is because of you. This is the power of an informed public.

Sweden’s Top Court Will Hear Assange Appeal Over Arrest Warrant

April 29, 2015 Al Jazeera, www.america.aljazeera.com Resist! Julian Assange, Sweden, Whistleblowers

Sweden's Supreme Court said Tuesday it would hear an appeal by WikiLeaks founder Julian to lift the arrest warrant against him issued by prosecutors who want to question him over allegations of sexual assault. Assange, 43, an Australian citizen, has been staying in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over allegations of sexual assault against two women in 2010. He denies the accusations. Prosecutors first insisted he go to Sweden for questioning but in a U-turn in March agreed to conduct the interview in London. Assange has said he fears that if Britain extradites him to Sweden, he could then be extradited to the United States, where he would be tried for one of the largest leaks of classified information in U.S. history.

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