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Theranos Whistleblower Shook the Company—And His Family
After working at Theranos Inc. for eight months, Tyler Shultz decided he had seen enough. On April 11, 2014, he emailed company founder Elizabeth Holmes to complain that Theranos had doctored research and ignored failed quality-control checks. The reply was withering. Ms. Holmes forwarded the email to Theranos President Sunny Balwani, who belittled Mr. Shultz’s grasp of basic mathematics and his knowledge of laboratory science, and...
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Chelsea Manning’s Statement for the Fourth Annual Aaron Swartz Day and International Hackathon
As read to the crowd at Aaron Swartz Day, at the Internet Archive, San Francisco, November 5, 2016.
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Chelsea Manning Tried Committing Suicide a Second Time in October
Ms. Manning says she tried to commit suicide at the start of a week of solitary confinement she was serving as punishment for a previous attempt to end her own life. By Charlie Savage.
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Jury awards $7.3 million to Penn State whistleblower in Sandusky scandal
A jury in Pennsylvania on Thursday awarded more than $7 million in damages to a former Penn State University assistant football coach who said the school retaliated by firing him after he implicated Jerry Sandusky as a molester of young boys. The $7.3 million in compensatory and punitive damages Penn State was ordered to pay Michael McQueary was confirmed to Reuters by Kendra Miknis, chief administrator of the Centre County Court of Common Pleas in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.
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Clinton Is Not the Tech Privacy Candidate. Not Your Privacy Anyway
Podesta leak acknowledges her ‘instincts’ are to accept law enforcement’s claims on encryption access and surveillance. By Scott Shackford. (Oct. 13, 2016)
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Don’t just pardon Edward Snowden; give the man a medal
As Barack Obama’s second term comes to an end, an increasingly loud chorus of voices are calling for a dramatic final presidential act: the pardoning of..
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'Edward Snowden did this country a great service. Let him come home'
Bernie Sanders leads a chorus of prominent public figures calling for clemency, a plea agreement or, in several cases, a full pardon for the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. Writing in the Guardian, the runner-up in the race to become Democratic presidential candidate argues that Snowden helped to educate the American public about how the NSA violated the constitutional rights of citizens with its mass surveillance program.
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Edward Snowden attacks Russia over human rights and hacking
The US whistleblower Edward Snowden has attacked his Russian protectors by criticising the Kremlin’s human rights record and suggesting that its officials have been involved in hacks on US security networks.
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Fiji whistleblower left for dead
A Fiji businessman was left for dead after being attacked in his home on Tuesday, allegedly by security forces. Rajneel Singh had earlier blown the whistle on what appeared to be an assassination plot against senior members of the Fiji government. Mr Singh's lawyer, Aman Ravindra-Singh, confirmed Mr Singh was attacked in his home on Tuesday afternoon.
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10 Orwellian Moments Found in the Newly Leaked Private NSA Newsletters
“Quite frankly, most of it is boring. But it’s an inside look at the human clockwork of one of the most mysterious agencies in the U.S. government. And every so often there is a gem…” By Jake Anderson. (Aug. 17, 2016)
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Commentary: Evidence points to another Snowden at the NSA
In the summer of 1972, state-of-the-art campaign spying consisted of amateur burglars, armed with duct tape and microphones, penetrating the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. Today, amateur burglars have been replaced by cyberspies, who penetrated the DNC armed with computers and sophisticated hacking tools.
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Chelsea Manning faces charges, solitary confinement after suicide attempt
Serving 35 years for leaking secrets to WikiLeaks, she was being investigated for resisting guards, prohibited property and threatening conduct charges. By Nicky Woolf.
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Piles of Dirty Secrets Behind a Model ‘Clean Coal’ Project
A Mississippi project, a centerpiece of President Obama’s climate plan, has been plagued by problems that managers tried to conceal, and by cost overruns and questions of who will pay. By Ian Urbina.
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If Hillary Clinton Gets a Pass on Espionage From President Obama, so Should Whistleblowers
Either the country has a policy of filing felony charges against people who reveal classified information, or it doesn’t. We all should be prosecuted, or none of us should be. By John Kiriakou. (June 6, 2016)
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Former US drone technicians speak out against programme in Brussels
Whistleblowers Cian Westmoreland and Lisa Ling join campaigners ahead of European parliament hearing on the use of armed drones. By Alice Ross.
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Edward Snowden’s Strangely Free Life
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.
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OSC set to launch paid whistleblower program in July led by senior regulator
The Ontario Securities Commission will officially launch a rewards-backed whistleblower program July 14, and has named longtime regulator Kelly Gorman as the first Chief of the Office of the Whistleblower. “The OSC’s Office of the Whistleblower will be the first paid whistleblower program [operated] by a securities regulator in Canada,” said Maureen Jensen, chair and chief executive of the OSC.
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3 Years Later, the Snowden Leaks Have Changed How the World Sees NSA Surveillance
Three years ago today, the world got powerful confirmation that the NSA was spying on the digital lives of hundreds of millions of innocent people. It started with a secret order written by the FISA court authorizing the mass surveillance of Verizon Business telephone records—an order that members of Congress quickly confirmed was similar to orders that had been issued every 3 months for years. Over the next year, we saw a steady drumbeat of damning evidence, creating a detailed, horrifying picture of an intelligence agency unrestrained by Congress and shielded from public oversight by a broken classification system.
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Exclusive: Snowden Tried to Tell NSA About Surveillance Concerns, Documents Reveal
On the morning of May 29, 2014, an overcast Thursday in Washington, DC, the general counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Robert Litt, wrote an email to high-level officials at the National Security Agency and the White House. Snowden's leaks had first come to light the previous June, when the Guardian's Glenn Greenwald and the Washington Post's Barton Gellman published stories based on highly classified documents provided to them by the former NSA contractor. Now Snowden, who had been demonized by the NSA and the Obama administration for the past year...
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President Obama, pardon Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning
When it comes to civil liberties, Obama has made grievous mistakes. To salvage his reputation, he should exonerate the two greatest whistleblowers of our age. 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.
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