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Santa Barbara Independent
March 8, 2018
Others have suspected a CIA-organized assassination of the dissident and potential whistle-blower. Morris has always been keen to explore the inner nature of quirky characters on both sides of the power grid. While McNamara and Rumsfeld are from inside the “decider” zone of the power elite, Olson'sÃÂ ...
GovExec.com
March 6, 2018
The intelligence community whistleblower ombudsman threatened with firing last year has received a show of support from two nonprofits long critical of ... An attorney for a former CIA officer working with the new nonprofit Whistleblower Aid also weighed in on the larger picture, saying: “We are concerned that the ICIG hasÃÂ ...
Just Security
March 6, 2018
Last week, a federal judge dismissed a complaint by a CIA whistleblower (and spy), who goes by the pseudonym James Pars. The ruling by Judge Trevor McFadden could affect the willingness of whistleblowers to step forward in the future. Pars' case wasn't so much about his whistleblowingÃÂ ...
New Castle News
February 23, 2018
In 2007, Kiriakou told ABC News that the CIA had not only tortured prisoners, but the practice was official U.S. government policy and the policy had been approved by former President George W. Bush. In the 10 years that have followed Kiriakou's insider bombshell, he has been convicted of passingÃÂ ...
RT
February 19, 2018
The US intelligence whistleblower has been released from prison, where he served time after revealing CIA mismanagement of a classified program to the Senate. He had been sentenced to three-and-a-half years under the Espionage Act, but was freed after two years. However, Sterling was not jailed forÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
February 13, 2018
The watchdog report conducted an inquiry into 190 cases of alleged retaliation against whistleblowers. Of that total ... In effect, the report uncovered a shocking pattern, that intelligence agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the National Security Agency (NSA), routinely failed to protectÃÂ ...
Artvoice
December 31, 1999
Allegations linking Clinton Foundation & CIA corruption in New Zealand makes CIA whistleblower 'a man without a country' ... Wilfred, a CIA whistle blower, claims to be in possession of evidence and testimony against Bill and Hillary Clinton that could have significant influence on New Zealand foreignÃÂ ...
GovExec.com
December 31, 1999
“The only place where Pars can go now is to Congress or the intel community IG,” said Irvin McCullough, an investigator for the Government Accountability Project, which represents whistleblowers. The judge's finding of no private right of action is “coupled with executive and legislative inaction on whistleblower problemsÃÂ ...
SRU The Online Rocket
December 31, 1999
Former CIA officer John Kiriakoa visited campus Wednesday night to talk to students about the ramifications of his decision to expose the CIA for torturing terrorists. ... Kiriakoa also promoted his new book entitled The Convenient Terrorist: Two Whistleblowers' Stories of Torture, Secret Wars, and CIA Lies.
McClatchy Washington Bureau
December 31, 1999
“What might happen here is that potential whistleblowers won't want to speak up because their agencies will ignore any kind of whistleblower complaint that will come their way,” Kruger said. Federal Judge Trevor N. McFadden ruled that Pars' lawsuit failed to establish that the CIA had a legal obligation toÃÂ ...
RT
December 31, 1999
Pars' Attorney Susan Kruger warns that the ruling could have “a chilling effect on potential whistleblowers in the intelligence community.”, according to McClatchy. In 2014, Pars started a one-year assignment as a deputy chief of base in a war zone, which is believed to be Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan,ÃÂ ...
New Castle News
February 23, 2018
In 2007, Kiriakoy told ABC News that the CIA had not only tortured prisoners, but the practice was official U.S. government policy and the policy had been approved by former President George W. Bush. In the 10 years that have followed Kiriakou's insider bombshell, he has been convicted of passingÃÂ ...
WhoWhatWhy / RealNewsProject (blog)
February 21, 2018
FBI Whistleblower: America's Culture of Violence Starts With Perpetual Wars .... That's the big story with the CIA not telling the FBI that they were tracking two hijackers for two years who had come into California and they never even told the FBI. To this day, that ... The pilots themselves were whistleblowers.
Techdirt
February 21, 2018
Those gunning for top-level positions in Trump's Intelligence Community have histories of retaliatory behavior against whistleblowers, which would ... following the discovery that one of the inspectors was himself a whistleblower in the middle of a federal lawsuit against the CIA, according to former IC IGÃÂ ...
Sputnik International
February 20, 2018
In 2016, a CIA officer going by the pseudonym James Pars filed a lawsuit against the agency for allegedly retaliating against him for reporting waste, fraud, ... Speaking to Sputnik Radio's Loud & Clear, Brad Birkenfeld, whistleblower and author of "Lucifer's Banker: The Untold Story of How I DestroyedÃÂ ...
CBC.ca
February 14, 2018
Russian doping lab whistleblower accused of being recruited in Canada to spy .... "The detainees … were gathering intelligence from sensitive and vital sites of the country, including the country's missile bases, according to the CIA and Mossad intelligence officers' guidelines," he said yesterday. It doesn'tÃÂ ...
Whistleblowers Protection Blog (blog)
February 14, 2018
... whistleblower program failures by the Inspector General for all intelligence agencies. However, the leaked draft report reveals that the intelligence community has utterly failed to protect whistleblowers who work for the intelligence agencies—including the CIA and the NSA, and report waste, fraud, abuse,ÃÂ ...
Boing Boing
February 13, 2018
For six months, the Intelligence Community Inspector General office investigated the cases of 190 whistleblowers who went through US spy agency channels to report corruption, waste, fraud, abuse and criminality, discovering that the overwhelming majority had faced some combination of indefinite delaysÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
February 13, 2018
The watchdog report conducted an inquiry into 190 cases of alleged retaliation against whistleblowers. Of that total ... In effect, the report uncovered a shocking pattern, that intelligence agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the National Security Agency (NSA), routinely failed to protectÃÂ ...
ABC News
February 5, 2018
A former Palestinian intelligence chief and the head of the West Bank bar association are suing the Palestinian self-rule government after a purported whistleblower alleged the two were targeted, along with many other allies and rivals of President Mahmoud Abbas, in a large-scale CIA-backed wiretappingÃÂ ...
Techdirt
January 29, 2018
This sad fact is personified by Dan Meyer -- the former official whistleblower channel for the Intelligence Community. Meyer blew the whistle himself, pointing out wrongdoing by top IC officials. Now, he's being forced out of office, clearing the path for the IC's attempt to rebrand whistleblowers as "insiderÃÂ ...
Sputnik International
January 18, 2018
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Coleen Rowley, a former FBI special agent who in 2002 was named Time Magazine person of the year along with two other whistleblowers, joins the show.
Stars and Stripes
January 18, 2018
WASHINGTON — The man who protects the rights of whistleblowers at U.S. spy agencies disclosed for the first time on Wednesday why he was suspended and escorted out of ... Intelligence officials, who have said they support the whistleblower program, would not disclose why Meyer was put on leave.
Mintpress News (blog)
January 18, 2018
Indeed, the pressure against WikiLeaks has reached fever pitch, with Attorney General Jeff Sessions' calling Assange's arrest a “priority” and CIA Director Mike Pompeo labeling it a non-state hostile intelligence service. Last Thursday, former CIA analyst and whistleblower John Kiriakou stated his belief thatÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
January 18, 2018
Senate leaders across party lines are concerned intelligence community watchdogs are failing to protect whistleblowers. ... The audit requested by the four senators will include all whistleblower programs at the Intelligence Community Inspector General, the CIA, the National Security Agency, the DefenseÃÂ ...
CBC.ca
January 17, 2018
A former officer with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has been arrested and charged with illegally retaining classified records, including names and phone numbers of covert CIA assets. Jerry Chun Shing Lee, also known as Zhen Cheng Li,, was arrested Monday night after arriving at JFK InternationalÃÂ ...
Sputnik International
January 17, 2018
'Embracing the Spotlight': Manning's Senate Run Praised by Ex-CIA Whistleblower ... Radio Sputnik's Loud & Clear hosts John Kiriakou and Brian Becker praised American whistleblower Chelsea Manning on her decision to run for US Senate, calling it “a remarkably strong and brave, defiant message.”.
New York Times
January 10, 2018
The M.S.S. is China's answer to the C.I.A. and the F.B.I. combined. It spies on civilians and foreigners alike, conducting operations domestically and internationally, amassing information on diplomats, businessmen and even the members of the C.P.C. Describing Ma, Guo leans back in his chair and mimesÃÂ ...
RT
January 10, 2018
Kiriakou, a former CIA analyst turned whistleblower, told RT the UK government has likely been under “great pressure” from Washington to make sure Assange is snatched the moment he steps outside the embassy and is eventually extradited to the US. “It's a worst kept secret in Washington that Julian isÃÂ ...
Sputnik International
January 3, 2018
... accused the Iranians in 2010 of subjecting his family members to beatings and severe mistreatment. Garland Nixon and Lee Stranahan of Radio Sputnik's Fault Lines spoke to John Kiriakou, a CIA agent-turned-whistleblower who helped reveal the CIA's torture program to the American public in 2007.
ExtremeTech
December 27, 2017
French whistleblowers have gone public with explosive claims that could trigger a wholesale review of how American law enforcment agencies collaborate with other agencies around the world — at least, as far as software procurement is concerned. The two whistleblowers claim that their former employerÃÂ ...
RT
December 31, 1999
Journalists never ask about former CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling, who has become an invisible man to the media, former US Senate candidate and ... The US intelligence whistleblower has been released from prison, where he served time after revealing CIA mismanagement of a classified program toÃÂ ...
Middle East Monitor
December 5, 2017
Israel is working directly with Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations in the fight against terrorism, CIA Director Mike Pompeo said on Saturday, ... The reports reignited the controversy in September when whistleblower Mujtahidd leaked reports stating the alleged desire of the Kingdom to accept Israel “as a ...
RT
December 4, 2017
CIA Director Mike Pompeo said he won't tolerate secrets purloined by the CIA being stolen from the agency, and warned WikiLeaks to be more careful about ... Pompeo was referring to US Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning, who released hundreds of thousands of documents from the military along with ...
MINA
November 28, 2017
Dilanian wrote that although Binney "has been feted in Europe and elsewhere as a truth-telling whistleblower . . . American officials of all ...
The Australian Financial Review
November 26, 2017
Karen Nelson-Field: My life as a whistleblower ... or Mark Felt in the title, but my editor warned me it might set off alarm bells at the CIA. ... As whistleblowers they were responsible for providing information to expose illegal, ...
Washington Examiner
November 14, 2017
The public will get a turbo-charged flow of intel about the latest CIA plots to undermine democracy. DM me.#vault8— Julian Assange ?
Truthdig
November 14, 2017
Former CIA analyst and whistleblower John Kiriakou says he was forced to scrap his address on national security before a panel at the ...
GovExec.com
November 13, 2017
A Delay in the Confirmation of Trump's CIA Watchdog Nominee is Looking More Likely ... Additionally, two senators active in whistleblower issues are awaiting a ... to protect whistleblowers after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden was ...
Gears Of Biz
November 12, 2017
John Kiriakou, a former CIA counterterrorism officer, has told RT America that he was kicked off a panel at the European Parliament because a ...
The Skanner
November 12, 2017
CIA Whistleblowers Claim Trump Nominee Hid Complaints from ... he didn't know about any active whistleblower complaints against him.
The Skanner
November 12, 2017
CIA Whistleblowers Claim Trump Nominee Hid Complaints from ... he didn't know about any active whistleblower complaints against him.
The Republic
November 12, 2017
WASHINGTON — Two former CIA employees are accusing the ... he didn't know about any active whistleblower complaints against him. ... “Sharpley successfully identified some, but not all, of the whistleblowers,” Tye said.
Voice of America
November 12, 2017
Two former CIA employees are accusing the Trump administration's ... didn't know about any active whistleblower complaints against him. ... “Sharpley successfully identified some, but not all, of the whistleblowers,” Tye said.
CBS News
November 11, 2017
WASHINGTON -- Two former CIA employees are accusing the Trump ... he didn't know about any active whistleblower complaints against him. ... to learn the names of the whistleblowers within his staff" who reported evidence ...
RT
November 11, 2017
John Kiriakou, a former CIA counterterrorism officer, has told RT that he was kicked off a panel at the European Parliament because a fellow ...
Liberation
November 10, 2017
A former employee of the CIA, he was the only person to serve time in ... the same panel with a courageous whistleblower who happens to work ...
NPR
November 9, 2017
The Intercept reports that Pompeo met last month with a former NSA officer, William Binney, who is described as a "whistleblower" and reportedly co-authored an analysis by a group of former intelligence officers that challenges the consensus that Russia was behind the hack of the Democratic National ...
Seattle Times
November 9, 2017
... to further his claim that the homicides were committed as part of a conspiracy to silence him, while claiming to be a CIA whistleblower.
RT
November 9, 2017
NSA whistleblower William Binney spoke to RT about his recent meeting with CIA director Mike Pompeo, where they discussed accusations ...
