This proposed NDA is another attempt by the administration to purge the civil service of nonpartisan career employees and replace them with loyalists who won’t speak out against waste, fraud, and abuse.
Two anonymous WhistleblowerAid.org clients have come forward with evidence that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has authorized – and even trained – ICE agents to forcibly enter homes without consent or a judicial warrant.
Media caught in Trump’s net
Karen Silkwood died in 1974 while trying to expose dangerous conditions in her workplace. Her death — and the smear campaign that followed — highlights how retaliation against whistleblowers deflects scrutiny from power by targeting the messenger.
There have been assurances that Assange does not face the death penalty, but no clear answer as to whether the US first amendment will apply to him; regardless, he should be released and returned to Australia.
Regulators cited Maersk for its “illegal policy” blocking employees from reporting safety concerns to the Coast Guard.
How the Espionage Act of 1917 is the most important yet least understood law threatening freedom of the press in modern American history.
Honoring Ellsberg requires not just recalling him as a historic figure, but carrying on his work and legacy to dismantle the machinery of war that has claimed far too many lives and end its accompanying regime of secrecy.
Fifty years after exposing US lies about the Vietnam war, Daniel Ellsberg said the culture of official secrecy had gotten worse. He urged whistleblowers: ‘Don’t wait years till the bombs are falling and people have been dying’
Daniel Hale provided his fellow citizens a service. We owe it to him—and people like him—to encourage and protect whistleblowers.
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