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  beSpacific: Opening Statement of Chairman Shays: "Whistleblowers in critical national security positions are vulnerable to unique forms of retaliation, Shays said. "Suspension or revocation of a security clearance can have the same chilling effect as demotion or firing, but clearance actions are virtually unreviewable. (via Cosmos)

  Bradford Plumer: Meanwhile, the normal channels for reporting wrongdoing that Goss prefers have become much more treacherous since 1999, when a federal court ruled that whistleblowers can be protected from retaliation only if there is irrefutable evidence of wrongdoing””a high bar to meet (the wrongdoer basically has to cop to illegal activity). According to the Government Accountability Project, prior to the court ruling, 36 percent of whistleblowers who went to the Merit Systems Protection Board won their case on the merits; (via Cosmos)

  Presto Vivace Blog: Though the Whistleblower Protection Act is weak, the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act (ICWPA) is even worse. One of the most serious problems with it is that an employee or contractor of the CIA who wants to report wrongdoing cannot go to congressional intelligence committees without the CIA director giving him or her "direction on how to contact the intelligence committees in accordance with appropriate security practices." Problem with this is that the CIA director might not want Congress to look into the allegations of wrongdoing by the CIA whistleblower. (via Cosmos)

[Pogoblog.typepad.com] The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) Blog: Defining ...: Though the Whistleblower Protection Act is weak, the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act (ICWPA) is even worse. One of the most serious problems with it is that an employee or contractor of the CIA who wants to report wrongdoing cannot go to congressional intelligence committees without the CIA director giving him or her "direction on how to contact the intelligence committees in accordance with appropriate security practices." 

  Ignorant Hussy: Bush's executive order allowing some warrantless eavesdropping on those inside the United States - including American citizens, permanent legal residents, tourists and other foreigners - is based on classified legal opinions that assert that the president has broad powers to order such searches, derived in part from the September 2001 Congressional resolution authorizing him to wage war on Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups, according to the officials familiar with the N.S.A. operation. (via Cosmos)

The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) Blog: In what is unfortunately a common, short-sighted response to whistleblowers that POGO sees across the government, the two Army pilots who have raised these concerns were punished and threatened with court martial. As Eugene Fidell, attorney for Chief Warrant Officer William Lovitt, one of the whistleblowers, said, "These are planes that fly around generals, they fly around VIPs." (via Cosmos)

[Goverup.com] Protecting Our Privacy: Protecting Our Privacy Filed under: civil liberties, NSA, sunshine week ”” March 15, 2006 @ 8:25 am Bob Englehart The Privacy Act of 1974 is an important federal law that allows individuals to learn what records the government is keeping on us, and gives us the right to ensure that the records are accurate. The Privacy Act is a frequent

 [Discussion about 09/11/2001] Old News (2004): 9/11 Complaint, Eliot Spitzer... : d.In November of 2003, former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania Phil Berg filed an amended RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) complaint against top members of the Bush Administration for wrongful death, criminal conspiracy, and obstruction of justice on behalf of 9/11 widow Ellen Mariani.15 This was refiled as Rodriguez v. Bush et al.

[unbossed.com] Whistleblower Lockdown: Whistleblowers at key government agencies tasked with protecting the U.S. (including the FBI, CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, Transportation Security Administration, and National Security Agency) have been excluded from the meager protections afforded the rest of the federal workforce. Employees at other agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security must seek protection under the defunct Whistleblower Protection Act, a law rendered useless by a crippling series of judicial interpretations from a court with a monopoly on reviewing whistleblower cases.

 [Balkanalysis.com Rapid Reactions] Sibel Edmonds, Other National Security... : What: An unprecedented group of national security whistleblowers have formed a united front as the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC). They will collectively attend two bipartisan congressional meetings today to demand that Congress act to end government retaliation against those who expose national security blunders, that Congress hold hearings into the federal government’s actions against whistleblowers, and that Congress act to require ”˜individual accountability’ for retaliation against whistleblowers.

[Pogoblog.typepad.com] The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) Blog: Whistleblower ...: As we've stated before, the Act says that CIA whistleblowers cannot go to congressional intelligence committees without the CIA director giving him or her "direction on how to contact the intelligence committees in accordance with appropriate security practices."  Problem with this is that the CIA director might not want Congress to look into the allegations of wrongdoing by the CIA whistleblower. 

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