The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform wants an explanation from the Transportation Security Agency for its treatment of Robert MacLean, whose disclosure foiled TSA plans to pull air marshals off long distance commercial flights after the 9/11…
A special kind of courage: publishing the Pentagon Papers
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential,…
Julian Assange “arbitrarily detained” by UK and Sweden a UN panel concludes
The United Nations’ Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) today released an opinion that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange “was arbitrarily detained by the Governments of Sweden and the United Kingdom” and is therefore”entitled to his freedom of movement and to…
New book revisits JFK assassination
David B. Nolan, Jr., a former Reagan White House attorney who submitted an amicus for the whistleblower in DHS v. MacLean, has written a new and controversial book, The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald: LBJ’s Patsy. Using public domain information, Nolan builds…
Thirty years after NASA disaster, whistleblower’s identity revealed
Thirty years ago today, the space shuttle Challenger exploded less than 2 minutes after lift-off, killing all seven astronauts on board. A fe months later, two engineers talked about the disaster to National Public Radio on condition of anonymity, They…
A Christmas movie for whistleblowers
For the whistleblower in search of Christmas entertainment, look no further than the 1947 film classic, “Miracle on 34th Street.” The plot is a classic whistleblowing situation: A principled employee observes unethical and possibly illegal conduct and is subjected to…