At the 2015 Academy Awards ceremony, the Oscar for “Best Documentary” went to “Citizenfour,” Laura Poitras’ dramatic portrayal Edward Snowden’s disclosure of massive surveillance by the National Security Agency. Receiving the award were director Poitras, producer Dirk Wilutzky and editor Mathilde Bonnefoy.…
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Jailed for Speaking to the Press: Stephen Kim
On Democracy Now!, Peter Maass (The Intercept) described the Obama administration’s prosecution of Stephen Kim under the Espionage Act, treatment typically reserved for whistleblowers. Kim’s experiences are chronicled in a video documentary, “The Surrender,” by Steven Maing. From DemocracyNow.org, Wednesday,…
CIA whistleblower says Edward Snowden would not get fair trial in US
A week after his release from prison, CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou appeared on Democracy Now! and spoke with Amy Goodman about whistleblowing, CIA torture and US prisons. The CIA whistleblower spoke favorably of Edward Snowden, who blew the whistle on…
Double standard for leaking endangers the nation
Reportedly, investigators have recommended indictment of disgraced former Central Intelligence Agency Director, David Petraeus on charges of leaking classified information.
DOJ whistleblower discusses torture report with Larry King
Jesselyn Radack, a former Department of Justice ethics advisor and whistleblower, appeared on Politicking With Larry King to discuss the Senate report on CIA interrogations. As the National Security and Human Rights Director for the Government Accountability Project, she now represents other…
Internal whistleblowing failed to stop torture, notes Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden told attendees at an Paris conference that he was “deeply saddened and to a great extent angered” by what he read in the US Senate report on CIA interrogation of terrorism suspects. The conference, sponsored by Amnesty International,…
Senate report: CIA lied about torture of detainees
On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) released an unclassified summary of its classified report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program. In a forward, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the committee chair, writes, “it is my personal…
Serpico: Police violence is out of control
In an op-ed for Politico, “The Police Are Still Out of Control: And I should know,” Frank Serpico shares his insights on dealing with bad cops. Serpico, a retired police detective, famously exposed graft and corruption in the New York…
Remembering Rick Piltz, climate change whistleblower
Rick Piltz, a familiar face in the whistleblower community, died October 18 of cancer at a Washington, D.C., hospice. A policy analyst and climate change whistleblower, Piltz leaves behind a legacy of principled activism, a wife, Karen Metchis, and a daughter, Shayne Piltz. He…
MacLean garners impressive support in Supreme Court case
Last week, supporters filed eight more “friend of the court” (amicus curiae) briefs in support of Robert MacLean, the whistleblowing former air marshal whose case, DHS v. MacLean, is now before the US Supreme Court.