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Get up at least once every 30 minutes




"For a man who no longer has a homeland,

writing becomes a place to live." - Theodor Adorno



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"You do not become a 'dissident' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career.

You are thrown into it by a sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances.

You are cast out of the existing hierarchical structures and placed in a position of conflict within them.

It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.




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The dissident does not operate in the realm of power.

The dissident is not seeking power.

The dissident has no desire for an office of power.




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The dissident does not attempt to charm the public.

The dissident offers nothing and promises nothing.

The dissident can offer only his or her own skin - and the dissident offers it solely because the dissident has no other way of affirming the truth he or she stands for.

The dissident's actions simply articulate his or her dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost." - Vaclav Havel




blowing the whistle

The government has invoked the state secrets privilege to evade accountability for torture, to silence national security whistleblowers, and even to dismiss a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination.

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden

27 Edward Snowden Quotes About US Government Spying

Original NSA Whistleblower Looks Back

NSA Whistleblower William Binney

War Against Reporter James Risen

Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror

Bonnie Raines: I broke into the FBI in 1971

CIA Intelligence Analyst Melvin A. Goodman

Peter Van Buren, Joining Whistleblowers' Club

So you want to be a whistleblower? A lawyer explains the process

NSA: Nobody could stop Snowden – he was a sys admin

James Bamford, NSA Lawsuit Client

NSA uses Espionage Act to prosecute James Bamford for using FOIA

Snowden Documents Reveal Covert Surveillance and
Pressure Tactics Aimed at WikiLeaks and Its Supporters

Why the Laura Poitras case is bigger than you think

Why John Oliver's interview with Edward Snowden is so Vital

John Oliver ~ Edward Snowden
Government Surveillance





2006 $33 million contract awarded to Moving Water Industries Corporation.

Army Corps of Engineers officials in New Orleans installed MWI's 34 pumps on three major drainage canals before the 2006 hurricane season despite a warning by Maria Garzino, the whistleblower, that the pumps would fail if put to the test during a hurricane.

MWI is owned by J. David Eller and his sons.

J. David Eller was once a business partner of Jeb Bush in a venture called Bush-El that marketed MWI pumps.

2008 "Army Corps of Engineers officials did not violate any rules when they allowed defective pumps to be installed after Hurricane Katrina, according to a report by the Defense Department's inspector general.

The report's findings will be reviewed by the United States Office of Special Counsel, an independent federal agency that handles complaints by whistleblowers including a corps engineer who warned in early 2006 that the pumps would not work properly." - Cain Burdeau 6/13/2008

July 2008 Over 900 cases made by whistleblowers alleging that government contractors and drug makers have defrauded taxpayers are languishing in a backlog that has built up over the last decade because the Justice Department has been ordered to ignore them.

Many cases involve the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, rising healthcare payouts and privatization of government functions - all offer rich new opportunities to swindle taxpayers.


Whistleblowing, Journalism and Democracy



whistleblower Bradley Manning

deliberately premeditatedly tortured into psychic disequilibrium

A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe

Obama only goes after leaks that don't benefit him

Court ruling leaves many federal workers 'defenseless' and without appeal rights

UBS Whistle-Blower Secures $104 Million Award From IRS


nothing to fear

Susan Lindauer

Katharine Gun's Risky Truth-telling

The price Gina Gray paid for whistleblowing

The Mysterious Deaths of Nine Gulf Oil Spill Whistleblowers

Whistleblower Terminated from Northwestern for Revealing Human Experimentation

State Department stymied probe into shooting of four Hondurans

Whistleblowing Is an Act of Political Resistance

When whistleblowers suffer: Jesselyn Radack


John Kiriakou

"Any whistleblower who goes public in the name of protecting
human rights
or civil liberties is accused of helping the terrorists."

John Kiriakou

Whistleblowers 'Are Not Alone'

"I Would Do It All Again" to Expose Torture

Obama abusing of the Espionage Act

Bunnatine H. Greenhouse


The Invisible Man

American Racism

Punishing Another Whistleblower

Jeffrey Sterling, CIA Whistleblower

'New Low' in War on Whistleblowers

How a police state protects "secrets"


DHS whistleblower


"My name is Fred Whitehurst and my life's work is dangerously close to being destroyed.

I am a former FBI Supervisory Special Agent who blew the whistle in 1993 on forensic fraud in the FBI crime lab.

I was looking forward to seeing President Obama and Congress fulfill their promise to strengthen whistleblower rights.

I was horrified to discover that the Senate whistleblower bill S. 372 repeals the FBI whistleblower protections that I sacrificed my career for.

I am not only a whistleblower, I am also an attorney who personally read the law and can tell you that S. 372 sets back whistleblower rights 30 years." - Fred Whitehurst

2006 Los Angeles prosecutor Richard Ceballos wrote a memo suggesting a Los Angeles county sheriff's deputy had lied in a search warrant affidavit.

The US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled that Richard Ceballos' statements about a potential lie in a search-warrant affidavit were "inherently a matter of public concern" protected by the Constitution.

The Supreme Court decided that the 'memo was inflammatory' and that a government employee while performing his official duties may be fired or demoted for bringing to light misconduct or corruption within the employing public institution.

"The 5-4 decision essentially says that government employees can be fired or demoted if they reveal information about wrongdoing to their co-workers, to management or possibly to government investigators.

This decision sends a terrible message and could be deeply damaging to efforts to fight fraud, abuse and corruption.

Almost half of all fraud, detection in government agencies is estimated to come from tips, very often received through whistleblowers.

My office, which is charged, among other things, with rooting out fraud, and waste in the Los Angeles city government, routinely receives credible whistleblower information from city employees.

In the last five years we have conducted more than 100 audits and investigations, and I can tell you that if we had not offered protection and anonymity to whistleblowers, the results would have been less than fruitful.

Let there be no doubt.

If employees are no longer protected by the First Amendment when they speak out then precious sources of information will wither away. " - Laura Chick, Los Angeles city controller.

Laura Chick helped the United States attorney to successfully prosecute the public relations giant Fleishman-Hillard, with the help of employees of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, for fraudlent over billing for several million dollars.





"The US Supreme Court decision to deny whistleblower protection to public employees continues what many of us already know.

As the salaries of top government bureaucrats rise faster than the price of gasoline, job protection and career advancement become top priority.

Nonelected bureaucrats surround themselves with "yes men" loyal only to the boss, often at the expense of the very people their office is meant to serve.

Intelligent employees learn that submitting ideas, comments or criticisms up the chain of command is futile at best and career suicide at worst.

The result? Government gets bigger, slower, less productive and more costly.

The State Legislature should restore the whistleblower protection that the Supreme Court took away by a 5-4 vote.

While shooting the messenger may protect the bureaucrat, it does not protect the public." - Daniel J. Schmidt




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