Story by Tom Nugent and Laura Silverman Published in the September 2016 issue of At Buffalo (SUNY at Buffalo). Re-published with permission When civil engineer Marc Edwards (BS ’86) warned Michigan state officials and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that lead-contaminated drinking water…
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The law NSA used to justify bulk collection of phone records has expired; now what?
Glenn Greenwald: As Bulk NSA Spying Expires, Scare Tactics Can’t Stop “Sea Change” on Surveillance Published by Democracy Now!, Republished under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
A tendency to follow the herd rather than whistleblow may be part of our evolutionary past
By Paul Rauwolf, University of Bath and Dominic Mitchell, University of Bath Published 23 Jan 2015 in The Conversation Whistleblowing performs a public service that is celebrated in the media, condoned by the public, and increasingly protected by the…
GAP Praises Settlement of Marine Corps Whistleblower Case
By Sarah Damian. Published September 25 by the Government Accountability Project. Reposted with permission. Today, U.S. Marine Corps whistleblower Franz Gayl and his attorneys since 2007 at the Government Accountability Project (GAP) praised the Marine Corps and the U.S. Office…
Medicare fraud and how to stop it
By David E. Haynes Millions of Americans rely upon the federal Medicare and Medicaid programs for their health care services. In order to fund these critical services, the federal government spends billions each year. In 2013, the federal government spent…
Senator Feinstein Ignores 9/11 Findings in Rationalizing NSA’s Massive Surveillance
by Coleen Rowley. More than a few bizarre aspects jumped out at me when I attended the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on October 2. Instead of providing needed oversight of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in light of shocking…
The Price of Blowing the Whistle
by Julia Davis Edward Snowden set the world ablaze with revelations of overreaching surveillance, conducted by the American government against its own citizens. The excuse of “national security” often allows powers-that-be to avoid public scrutiny, effectively ending the discussion. However,…