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Punishing birdwatching songwriter ensures ‘Harperman’ a place in Canadian folk canon
The spitefulness of the Harper regime, in one anecdote: suspending a folksinger who tracks birds for a living at Environment Canada. Time for us all to lift our voices. By J. Baglow.
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Whistleblower Investigator Fired From Own Agency
A federal whistleblower investigator who put his career on the line to expose what he calls bureaucratic dysfunction has been fired, NBC Bay Area has learned. Darrell Whitman, a former San Francisco-based investigator for the Whistleblower Protection Program administered by OSHA, claimed the agency failed to defend workers who faced retaliation for reporting illegal activity and public safety concerns.
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A Second Snowden Has Leaked a Mother Lode of Drone Docs
The Intercept's focus on adversial journalism and anonymous whistleblower security is paying off.
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European Union Calls For Edward Snowden Criminal Charges To Be Dropped: Will Whistleblower Find Asylum in Europe?
The European Union's Parliament voted 285 to 281 Thursday to drop charges against former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who exposed the agency's widespread spying activities. The Parliament said that not enough has been done to protect the rights of EU citizens from mass surveillance. In a release, the Parliament urged countries to "drop any criminal charges against Edward Snowden, grant him protection and consequently...
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Top Pennsylvania prosecutor keeps releasing raunchy emails
Facing criminal charges, relieved of her law license and threatened with removal by the Legislature, Pennsylvania's attorney general seems to have decided that if she has to go, she's going to take others down with her.
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Obama’s drone war a ‘recruitment tool’ for Isis, say US air force whistleblowers
Four former service members – including three sensor operators – issue plea to rethink current airstrike strategy that has ‘fueled feelings of hatred’ toward US. By Ed Pilkingto and Ewen MacAskill.
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HSBC whistleblower given five years’ jail over biggest leak in banking history
The whistleblower who exposed wrongdoing at HSBC’s Swiss private bank has been sentenced to five years in prison by a Swiss court. Hervé Falciani, a former IT worker, was convicted in his absence for the biggest leak in banking history. He is currently living in France, where he sought refuge from Swiss justice, and did not attend the trial. The leak of secret bank account details formed the basis of revelations – by the Guardian, the BBC, Le Monde and other media outlets...
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This scientist uncovered problems with pesticides. Then the government started to make his life miserable
He was a golden boy at the USDA. Not anymore. By Tom Philpott.
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Britain’s Nuclear Arsenal Is a Hazardous Mess
Safety mishaps plague Trident program. By Tom Barlow Brown.
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Everyone Loves Marineland
“Marineland denies the allegations made in this podcast...” By Jesse Brown.
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The Black Chamber
The man who made Edward Snowden inevitable.
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The Untold Casualties of the Drone War
Former members of the U.S. drone program expose the hidden price of remote control combat. By Vegas Tenold.
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On whistleblowers and secrecy
What author Barry Eisler said to a room of ex-intelligence officers.
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Chelsea Manning: government anti-leak program a ‘blank check for surveillance’
‘Insider Threat’ program, based largely on Manning’s WikiLeaks disclosures, targets government employees using a variety of subjective labels. By Ed Pilkington.
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To Stop Whistleblowing, US Intelligence Instructing Staff to Spy on Colleagues
Intelligence agencies have long treated perceived threats in their own ranks in a manner befitting a Kafka story. Now, in the era of Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, they are ramping up this treatment to root out whistleblowers. By James Bamford.
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How Habitat for Humanity Went to Brooklyn and Poor Families Lost Their Homes
The charity paid millions in federal stimulus funds to developers shortly after longtime tenants were pushed out. “We are spending federal money to throw low-income New Yorkers out of buildings,” wrote a Habitat whistleblower. By Marcelo Rochabrun.
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FBI Whistleblower Wrongfully Fired For Reporting Sex Trips
A federal appeals court ruled that an FBI whistleblower, who reported fraud and sexual misconduct involving prostitutes, was wrongfully terminated in 2010. By Kevin Gosztola.
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What Should We Do About Big Data Leaks?
What is transparency in the age of massive database drops? What would happen if the things released in the interest of transparency were released in actual transparent formats?
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The Panama Papers: what’s been revealed so far?
The unprecedented leak of 11.5m files is causing upheaval across the globe. Here is what has been revealed by the Guardian.
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The Panama Papers and the Monster Stories of the Future
The story of the moment lacks a lead actor from the top rank of the journalism establishment. Is that a sign of things to come? By Nicholas Lemann.
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