Above Photo: Timothy Krause. “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” — George Bernard Shaw. Adam Schiff’s new book, “Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could,” makes a strong case for the importance of whistleblowing, particularly in these fractured times. Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, argues that his committee is “uniquely dependent on whistleblowers” because of the “classified nature” of its work. Without whistleblowers, the congressional intelligence committees would be “almost completely […]
Whistleblowers
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Above Photo: “Fly my monkeys, fly.” Art by Mr. Fish. John Kiriakou joins Robert Scheer to discuss the plight of the whistleblower, sentenced to 45 months in prison for revealing how often drone strikes kill civilians. Struggling with the moral injury of taking part in America’s expanding drone wars, Daniel Hale took it as his civic duty to tell his fellow Americans the truth about what was being done in their name. In 2014, the former Air Force member and National Security Agency intelligence analyst leaked 17 documents to The Intercept that provided the basis for a series of articles detailing the full […]
Above Photo: Mark Klein, former AT&T technician who blew the whistle on NSA warrantless wiretapping. insunlight. Mark Klein worked for over twenty years as a technician for the AT&T Corporation. He blew the whistle on the AT&T’s collaboration with the National Security Agency, which allowed for warrantless wiretapping of phone and internet communications. In 2006, Klein came to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) with documents of AT&T’s involvement in the United States’ domestic spying program. His whistleblowing became the basis of the organization’s lawsuit against the NSA. According to Kevin Bankston [PDF], who was an EFF staff attorney, Klein described the […]
Above photo: Ann Wright addresses the crowd outside Rockefeller Center. WNV/Eric Stoner. Now is the time for accountability for the U.S. assassin drone program. For decades the U.S. has been murdering innocent civilians, including U.S. citizens, in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Mali and who knows where else. Not one person in the military has been held accountable for these criminal acts. Instead, drone whistleblower Daniel Hale is sitting in prison with a 45 month sentence. The August 29, 2021 deaths of ten innocent civilians, including seven children, in a family compound in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan by a hellfire missile fired from […]
Clinton Foundation whistleblowers Lawrence W. Doyle and John F. Moynihan have scored their first victory in the litigation against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel has explained what consequences it will have for the powerful political dynasty and its associates. On 8 October, US Tax Court Judge David Gustafson issued an opinion ruling that the IRS’s Whistleblower Office (WBO) had “abused its discretion” in trying to dismiss “specific credible documentation” put forward by Doyle and Moynihan thus allowing the case against the Clintons’ charities to go on. Investigators Doyle and Moynihan Raised the Red Flag Although the […]
New Hotline For Postal Service Whistleblowers By Project on Government Oversight. September 15, 2020 New Hotline For Postal Service Whistleblowers2020-09-152020-09-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/postal-service-e1600169848689.jpg200px200px Above photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP. Postal Service Workers: POGO Seeks Insider Information. The United States Postal Service provides safe, timely communication for all Americans. Increasingly, that includes supporting U.S. elections by handling mail-in ballots, a function of vital importance during the COVID-19 pandemic. But unprecedented turmoil has shaken the institution in recent months. Concerns are mounting that administrative changes could undermine the agency’s basic mission: to deliver all Americans’ mail safely and on time. POGO USPS Hotline Help us investigate and advocate […]
𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁 Surrounded by suburban white women, the President today pardoned Susan B. Anthony, the white woman who led voting rights campaign for women. Blacks, intelligent people will recall, received voting rights at the behest of the Republican Party and against the violent opposition of racist segregationist Democrats. We pray that the President will soon pardon Native American and Black Panther leaders still in prison (or dead in prison) who defended their communities against US military, CIA, and FBI predation. As an afterthought, throw in Edward Snowden and Julian Assange. 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸: Randy Short: Promotions and Pardons Healing of […]
US President Donald Trump on Saturday said he would consider pardoning Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency (NSA) employee who faced criminal charges after leaking classified information about government surveillance. Pardoning Snowden would be one good decision to come out of Trump’s presidency, Mnar Muhawesh, MintPress News founder, CEO and editor-in-chief, told Radio Sputnik’s Political Misfits. During a news conference at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Saturday, Trump said of Snowden: “There are many, many people – it seems to be a split decision – many people think that he should be somehow be treated differently and […]
The British Labour Party has admitted it defamed Jewish whistleblowers who spoke to the BBC Panorama program about anti-Semitism in the party under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn. The program featured a number of Jewish whistleblowers who condemned the party’s practices on anti-Semitic complaints under the direction of Corbyn, claiming that several high ranking officers in the party interfered with investigations into alleged perpetrators who were members of the party. Labour responded at the time by accusing those who participated in the program of just being “disaffected former staff” who harbored “personal and political axes to grind” and made malicious and […]
A memorial for Li Wenliang, who called attention to the coronavirus in Wuhan, China, sits on UCLA’s campus earlier this year in Westwood, Calif. The doctor’s widow, Fu Xuejie, announced the birth of their baby boy on Friday. Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images A memorial for Li Wenliang, who called attention to the coronavirus in Wuhan, China, sits on UCLA’s campus earlier this year in Westwood, Calif. The doctor’s widow, Fu Xuejie, announced the birth of their baby boy on Friday. Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images When Dr. Li Wenliang died of […]
Longtime Amazon VP Explains Why He Quit Over Treatment Of Amazon Whistleblowers May 6, 2020 Longtime Amazon VP Explains Why He Quit Over Treatment Of Amazon Whistleblowers2020-05-062020-05-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/timbray-e1588809071718.jpg200px200px Above photo: Tim Bray. May 1st was my last day as a VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services, after five years and five months of rewarding fun. I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19. What with big-tech salaries and share vestings, this will probably cost me over a million (pre-tax) dollars, not to mention the best job I’ve ever had, working with […]