Australian Federal Police raided the headquarters of Australian broadcast ABC News Wednesday, seeking files related to a 2017 expose of abuses by Australian forces in Afghanistan, including alleged killings of defenseless children. The search warrant named three ABC journalists and…
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Presidential candidate would pardon Snowden, Assange
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Whistleblowers and the prosecution loophole
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(Commentary) by Shanna Devine (Government Accountability Project) and Liz Hempowicz (Project on Government Oversight) Published in The HIll, March 12, 2015 When facing the prospect of criminal prosecution for leaking highly classified material to his mistress and later lying about it…
Imprisoned CIA whistleblower Kiriakou is “Free at last”
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CIA torture whistleblower John Kiriakou went home yesterday after serving 24 months at a Pennsylvania prison. He announced his release via Twitter with a heartwarming photo of his youngest children happily cuddled with their father. Free at last. Free at…
Senate report: CIA lied about torture of detainees
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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…
Supreme Court hears arguments in whistleblower case, DHS v Robert MacLean
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The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday in a whistleblower case, the Department of Homeland Security vs. Robert J. MacLean.