Appearing on 60 Minutes last Sunday, Dr. Rick Bright repeated claims that top administration officials ignored warnings that the US medical supply chain was inadequate to meet the demands of the looming pandemic.
Category: whistleblower
Clinton administration whistleblower, Linda Tripp, dies
Linda Tripp, who blew the whistle on a sex scandal that led to President Bill Clinton’s impeachment, died on Wednesday, April 8.
Whistleblower complaint targets Trump, stirs national debate
On August 12, an anonymous individual field a whistleblower complaint with Michael Atkinson, the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community. In a letter, addressed to House and Senate intelligence committee chairs, the whistleblower described a situation of “urgent” importance. In…
Presidential candidate would pardon Snowden, Assange
Chelsea Manning released from jail, subpoenaed again
Chelsea Manning was freed on Thursday after two months in an Alexandria, Virginia jail for refusing to testify to a grand jury. That grand jury’s term expired but prosecutors immediately convened a new grand jury and sent a new subpoena…
Julian Assange has been forcibly removed from Ecuador’s embassy
At 9:15 this morning, London’s Metropolitan Police entered the Ecuador embassy where they arrested, handcuffed and forcibly removed WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange at the invitation of Ecuador’s president, Lenin Moreno. Police transported Assange to a London court where District judge Michael…
Chelsea Manning jailed “in defense of a free press”
Chelsea Manning, the Army whistleblower, is again in jail less than two years after her release from prison on a grant of clemency from President Obama. US District Court judge Claude Hilton ordered Manning to be taken into custody for after she…
Switzerland’s highest court acquits banking whistleblower
Switzerland’s Federal High Court today confirmed a lower court ruling, finding that Rudolf Elmer did not violate Swiss banking secrecy laws when he revealed information about offshore banking tax avoidance schemes. Breaking bank secrecy is a criminal matter in Switzerland that…
Whistleblowers, Moral Injury, and Endless War Was Chelsea Manning Motivated By Moral Injury?
By Peter Van Buren “My guilt will never go away,” former Marine Matthew Hoh explained to me. “There is a significant portion of me that doesn’t believe it should be allowed to go away, that this pain is fair.” If…
Chelsea Manning freed from prison
Chelsea Manning left Ft. Leavenworth prison today at 2 a.m. Central Time. She had served seven years of an extreme 35-year sentence for whistleblowing, a sentence President Obama commuted just before leaving office. In prison, the Army private, formerly known as Bradley Manning,…