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…
Senator Grassley asks Obama to clarify whistleblower protections
Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has written President Obama to inquire about the impacts of a recent court ruling on the civil service. The ruling in Kaplan v. Conyers and Northover removed from MSPB review the claims of employees deemed to hold…
Thought for the day, Sept. 3
Henry David Thoreau said, “It takes two to speak the truth–one to speak and the other to hear.” Today, it takes three to tell the truth: One to speak, one to hear, and one to defend the first two in…
Snowden awarded 2013 Whistleblower Prize in Germany
[Update 8/31/13] Yesterday, at a ceremony in Berlin, German scientists, lawyers and activists awarded Edward Snowden with the 2013 Whistleblower Prize in recognition of his “bold efforts to expose the massive and unsuspecting monitoring and storage of communication data, which cannot…
Appeals court rules in favor of whistleblower Robert MacLean
[Updated 8/30/13] The Federal Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals issued a notice today that it has denied the government’s request for a rehearing of a previous ruling in favor of Robert MacLean, a former Transportation Security Agency air…
Attorney says Snowden would have been crazy to trust US judicial system
“No American citizen in their right mind would trust the honesty and the objectivity of the American judicial system at this time in American history” Those are the words of attorney Daniel Sheehan, a graduate of Harvard Law School with…