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Convicted CIA Leaker John Kiriakou’s Got Some Opinions About WikiLeaks and Trump
How does the Vault 7 leak look to a famous CIA whistleblower? It’s complicated. By Emma Grey Ellis.
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Government accused of 'full-frontal attack' on whistleblowers
Outcry follows plans to radically increase prison terms for revealing state secrets and prosecute journalists. The government’s legal advisers have been accused of launching a “full-frontal attack” on whistleblowers over proposals to radically increase prison sentences for revealing state secrets and prosecute journalists. Downing Street believes a major overhaul of existing secrecy legislation is necessary because it has become outdated in a digital age when government employees can easily disclose vast amounts of sensitive information.
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Russia eyes sending Snowden to U.S. as 'gift' to Trump, official says
U.S. intelligence has collected information that Russia is considering turning over Edward Snowden as a "gift" to President Donald Trump — who has called the NSA leaker a "spy" and a "traitor" who deserves to be executed.
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Whistleblower reveals passport fraud
The stunning postcard-perfect vista surrounding Misael Lopez in this town about one hour from Madrid belies his constant anxiety, even fear. That's because the former legal adviser to the Venezuelan Embassy in Iraq is revealing secrets he says his government doesn't want disclosed. "I'm concerned about my safety and my family's safety everywhere I go," Lopez said as he walked the cobble-stoned streets of Toledo.
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This Whistleblower Faced Death Threats for Exposing the Atrocities Committed on American Show Horses
The show industry looks the other way when trainers intentionally harm horses’ feet to make them step higher. By Josh Balk.
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A ‘rogue’ group of staffers is tweeting secrets from the White House
There’s no question about it, technology is playing a bigger and bigger role in all aspects of our lives, especially when it comes to the way we consume news. Social media — and especially Twitter… By Chris Smith.
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Chelsea Manning’s Existential Threat to American Innocence
Now, after nearly seven years of confinement, Chelsea Manning is as free as Don Rumsfeld, free as Dick Cheney. By Chase Madar.
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Julian Assange says Chelsea Manning was pardoned 'to make life difficult' for him
Julian Assange has claimed that Barack Obama only granted clemency to Chelsea Manning to "make life hard for him". One of Mr Obama's last acts as president was to commute Ms Manning's sentence, allowing her to be released in a matter of months rather than decades. The act was widely seen as a gesture of goodwill on the basis that Ms Manning was jailed for being a whistleblower.
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UN Independent Expert On Promotion Of Democracy Calls On Governments To Stop Persecuting Whistleblowers
Alfred de Zayas, who is the UN's "Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and international order" has put out quite a statement in support of President Obama's decision to commute Chelsea Manning's sentence. But de Zayas didn't stop there. He went on to point out that the US government and other governments have been persecuting many other whistleblowers around the world, including Ed Snowden and Julian Assange, and that should stop...
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Ten journalists battle efforts to make them testify in a San Bernardino county corruption case
Ten Southern California journalists are fighting an effort by prosecutors to compel them to testify in the San Bernardino County corruption trials of a developer, a former supervisor and other former county officials. By Paloma Esquivel.
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If Donald Trump Targets Journalists, Thank Obama
Obama has laid all the groundwork Trump needs for a crackdown on reporters. By James Risen.
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Edward Snowden in His Own Words
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US Intel Vets Dispute Russia Hacking Claims
As the hysteria about Russia’s alleged interference in the U.S. election grows, a key mystery is why U.S. intelligence would rely on “circumstantial evidence” when it has the capability for hard evidence, say U.S. intelligence veterans.
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Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, and the Modern Whistle-Blower
In the summer of 1967, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara commissioned a group of thirty-six scholars to write a secret history of the Vietnam War. The project took a year and a half, ran to seven thousand pages, and filled forty-seven volumes. Only a handful of copies were made, and most were kept under lock and key in and around the Beltway. One set, however, ended up at the rand Corporation, in Santa Monica, where it was read, from start to finish, by a young analyst there named Daniel Ellsberg.
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WikiLeaks releases 2,000 files from German inquiry into NSA spying scandal
Owners of the Sequim Bee Farm are looking for answers after they say vandals poisoned 20 of their hives, killing upward of 300,000 honey bees, The Peninsula Daily News reported Wednesday. “We knew a bear wouldn’t just stop pushing over with all the honey in the hive,” Sequim Bee Farm co-owner Buddy Depew told the newspaper. “I got to looking, and the rest of the hives, the bees, were all gone.”
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Why I told the Senate that Jeff Sessions thought civil rights groups were ‘un-American’
My job was threatened if I said what I knew about Sessions, but I did it anyway. Now he’s poised to lead the Justice Department. By J. Gerald Hebert.
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Edward Snowden loses Norway safe passage case
Edward Snowden's bid to guarantee that he would not be extradited to the US if he visited Norway has been rejected by the Norwegian supreme court. The former National Security Agency contractor filed the lawsuit in April, attempting to secure safe passage to Norway to pick up a free speech award. It had already been rejected by Oslo District court and an appeals court. Mr Snowden is a former NSA analyst who leaked secret US surveillance details three years ago.
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President Obama Claims He Cannot Pardon Snowden; He's Wrong
In a big interview with the German media outlet Der Spiegel, President Obama was asked about his interest in pardoning Ed Snowden in response to the big campaign to get him pardoned. Obama's response was that he could not, since Snowden has not been convicted yet...
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President Obama Claims He Cannot Pardon Snowden; He’s [Lying]
In a big interview with the German media outlet Der Spiegel, President Obama was asked about his interest in pardoning Ed Snowden in response to the big campaign to get him pardoned… By Mike Masnick.
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Why the World Needs WikiLeaks
We keep the powerful accountable — and that will be even more important in the coming years. By Sarah Harrison.
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