Obama Whistleblowers

Ever More and Ever Less: The Unstoppable Legacy of the War on Terror

Karen J. Greenberg | Posted 05.19.2012

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Karen J. Greenberg

Those who imagine the era of overreach in the name of national security coming to an end any time soon would do well to remember that some spectacular national security trials are on the horizon -- and that we may be entering a new age of governmental vindictiveness.

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Why No One Would Listen

Eyal Press | Posted 05.06.2012

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Eyal Press

What's worse: to be persecuted and indicted for trying to expose an act of wrongdoing -- or to be ignored for doing so?

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Silent State

Peter Van Buren | Posted 04.10.2012

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Peter Van Buren

There is a barely visible but still significant war raging between a government obsessed with secrecy and whistleblowers seeking to expose waste, fraud, and wrongdoing.

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Case Unlikely To Deter Obama Administration's Vigorous Legal Attack On Leakers

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 08.11.2011

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WASHINGTON — Criminal defendants of all stripes in national security cases, including Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North in the Iran-Contra affair and...

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Obama Admin Rebuffed In War Against Whistleblowers

AP | DOUGLAS BIRCH | Posted 08.10.2011

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BALTIMORE — Prosecutors asked a federal judge Friday to drop their Espionage Act case against National Security Agency whistleblower Thomas Drak...

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Federal Contractor Charged With Leaking Secrets To Press

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 05.26.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday accused an analyst who worked at the State Department of leaking top secret information about No...

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Obama More Aggressive Than Bush In Targeting Whistleblowers

New York Times | SCOTT SHANE | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Hired in 2001 by the National Security Agency to help it catch up with the e-mail and cellphone revolution, Thomas A. Drake became convi...

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Daniel Ellsberg: Wikileaks Founder 'Would Do Well To Keep His Whereabouts Unknown' (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower famous for leaking the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in 1971, castigated President Obama Friday for the gov...

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