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Whistleblowers fear prosecution under new European Trade Secrets law
The European Parliament is debating a bill on Thursday critics say threatens to turn whistleblowers into criminals. The aim of the Trade Secrets Protection Act is to protect European companies from corporate spying by their rivals in other parts of the world. But critics say journalists and whistleblowers could be criminalised if they publish information that companies deem to be secret. More than half a million people have...
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U.S. Ranks 41st In Press Freedom Index Thanks To 'War On Whistleblowers'
The U.S. is ranked 41 out of 180 countries in Reporters Without Borders' World Press Freedom Index, which measures the "level of freedom of information in 180 countries." According to the organization, the U.S. moved from 49 in 2015 to 41 this year, though it warned that the "relative improvement by comparison hides overall negative trends." Citing the U.S. government's "war on whistleblowers who leak information about its surveillance activities, spying and foreign operations...
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‘Catastrophic’ event at Hanford prompts emergency response
A leak in a massive nuclear waste storage tank at the Hanford Site has expanded significantly, KING 5 learned this [before last] weekend. Crews at Hanford lowered a camera into the two-foot-wide space between the tank’s inner and outer walls on Sunday and discovered 8.4 inches of radioactive and chemically toxic waste. (Apr. 18) [Autoplay video]
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Panama Papers source breaks silence over 'scale of injustices'
The whistleblower behind the Panama Papers broke their silence on Friday to explain in detail how the injustices of offshore tax havens drove them to the biggest data leak in history. The source, whose identity and gender remain a secret, denied being a spy. “For the record, I do not work for any government or intelligence agency, directly or as a contractor, and I never have. My viewpoint is entirely my own.”
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Panama Papers Source Wants Whistleblower Immunity to Aid Law Enforcement
The anonymous source responsible for leaking the vast document trove known as the Panama Papers said in a manifesto published on Friday that she or he “would be willing to cooperate with law enforcement” to ensure the prosecution of wrongdoing revealed by the paper trail — but only once “governments codify legal protections for whistleblowers into law.”
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Snowden calls for whistleblower shield after claims by new Pentagon source
Edward Snowden has called for a complete overhaul of US whistleblower protections after a new source from deep inside the Pentagon came forward with a startling account of how the system became a “trap” for those seeking to expose wrongdoing. The account of John Crane, a former senior Pentagon investigator, appears to undermine Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other major establishment figures who argue that there were established routes for Snowden other than leaking to the media.
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Interview with Bill Binney
“Ron Wyden has never watched one pornography movie in his life, because if he had, the NSA would know about it.” By Kade Crockford. (Feb.)
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'Hypocrite' Holder Says Snowden Performed Important 'Public Service'
Though he acknowledged that Edward Snowden did indeed perform a "public service" by starting a national conversation about government surveillance, former Attorney General Eric Holder still insists that the NSA whistleblower should be prosecuted for supposedly "harming American interests."
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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