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Ex-C.I.A. Agent, Kevin Shipp, Goes Public With Story of Mistreatment on the Job

Ex-C.I.A. Agent, Kevin Shipp, Goes Public With Story of Mistreatment on the Job

In many ways, the personal injury lawsuit looked routine: In late 2001, a government employee and his family sued the agency he worked for, saying it had placed them in a mold-contaminated home that made them sick and required nearly all their possessions to be destroyed. But this was no ordinary case. The employee, Kevin M. Shipp, was a veteran Central Intelligence Agency officer. His home was at Camp Stanley, an Army weapons depot just north of San Antonio, in an area where the drinking water was polluted with toxic chemicals. The post includes a secret C.I.A. facility. Declaring that its need ...
Fast and Furious Begins: Secret Government Gun Smuggling Operation

Fast and Furious Begins: Secret Government Gun Smuggling Operation

It started during the George W. Bush administration. Back then it was termed “Operation Wide Receiver.” The program later became known as “Gunwalking” and ended up being labeled “Fast and Furious.” An ill-conceived scheme from its outset, it eventually cost the lives of an unknown number of Mexican citizens and one U.S. Border Patrol agent. Operation Fast and Furious began when a local gun store reported to the Phoenix ATF that four individuals had purchased multiple AK-47 style rifles. In November 2009, the Phoenix office's Group VII, which would be the lead investigative group in Fast and Furious, began to ...
UN Whistleblower, Rasna Warah, Who Exposed a Culture of Corruption Only to be Retaliated and Attacked for Reporting the Wrongdoing

UN Whistleblower, Rasna Warah, Who Exposed a Culture of Corruption Only to be Retaliated and Attacked for Reporting the Wrongdoing

When she stumbled across massive corruption and made-up statistics in her job at the United Nations, Rasna Warah knew she needed to act. But when she tried to blow the whistle, she was viciously attacked, publicly humiliated, threatened, intimidated, and more. Unfortunately, though, as Warah explains in her new book UNsilenced: UNmasking the United Nations' Culture of Cover-ups, Corruption and Impunity, her case is far from unique. In fact, the corruption and lawlessness across the UN appears to be systemic. Some of the cases described in the book and the pages of The New American magazine make the scandals ...
Whistleblowers allege Blackwater was Smuggling Weapons and Destroying Incriminating Evidence, & Murdered other Whistleblowers

Whistleblowers allege Blackwater was Smuggling Weapons and Destroying Incriminating Evidence, & Murdered other Whistleblowers

A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company’s owner, Erik Prince, may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were cooperating with federal authorities investigating the company. The former employee also alleges that Prince “views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe,” and that Prince’s companies “encouraged and rewarded the destruction of ...
DOJ Indicts Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens on Fake Charges Brought by FBI & IRS in Political, Corrupt Prosecution

DOJ Indicts Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens on Fake Charges Brought by FBI & IRS in Political, Corrupt Prosecution

On July 29, 2008, Senator Ted Stevens was indicted by a federal grand jury on seven counts of failing to properly report gifts, a felony, and found guilty at trial three months later (October 27, 2008).  The charges relate to renovations to his home and alleged gifts from VECO Corporation, claimed to be worth more than $250,000. The indictment followed a lengthy investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for possible corruption by Alaskan politicians and was based in part on Stevens's extensive relationship with Bill Allen. Allen owned racehorses, including a partnership in ...
John Kiriakou Blows the Whistle on Illegal CIA Torture

John Kiriakou Blows the Whistle on Illegal CIA Torture

On December 10, 2007, John Kiriakou gave an interview to ABC News in which he described his participation in the capture of Abu Zubaydah, who was accused of having been an aide to Osama bin Laden. Kiriakou said he did not witness his waterboarding, but he had been told by CIA associates, it had taken only a single brief instance of waterboarding to extract answers. ...He was able to withstand the waterboarding for quite some time. And by that I mean probably 30, 35 seconds...and a short time afterwards, in the next day or so, he told his interrogator ...
FBI Whistleblower Jane Turner Awarded $565,000 after FBI Retaliation for Exposing Cover Up Cases Involving Sexually Abused Children in Indian Country

FBI Whistleblower Jane Turner Awarded $565,000 after FBI Retaliation for Exposing Cover Up Cases Involving Sexually Abused Children in Indian Country

In 1999, former FBI special agent Jane Turner brought to the attention of her management team serious misconduct concerning failures to investigate and prosecute crimes against children in Indian Country and in the Minot, North Dakota community. Turner also reported on misconduct related to the potential criminal theft of property from the 9/11 Ground Zero crime scene in New York City by Minneapolis FBI personnel. Although she was considered one of the best agents working in Indian Country, Turner's twenty-five year career with the FBI was brought to a halt when she was forced from service as retaliation for ...
Whistleblower Computer Programmer, Clint Curtis, was Asked by the Company he Worked for to Create a Vote-Rigging Software Prototype

Whistleblower Computer Programmer, Clint Curtis, was Asked by the Company he Worked for to Create a Vote-Rigging Software Prototype

Curtis is a computer programmer who worked for Yang Enterprises in Oviedo, Florida until February 2001. He made a series of allegations about his former employer and about Republican Congressman Tom Feeney, including an allegation that in 2000, Feeney and Yang Enterprises requested Curtis's assistance in a scheme to steal votes by inserting fraudulent code into touch screen voting systems. In particular, he alleged that at the behest of Feeney, in September 2000, he was asked to write a program for a touchscreen voting machine that would make it possible to change the results of an election undetectably. This ...
Whistleblower Julia Davis Reports on 23 Improperly Processed Entries into the US of Aliens from Terrorist Countries. DHS Retaliates Harshly!

Whistleblower Julia Davis Reports on 23 Improperly Processed Entries into the US of Aliens from Terrorist Countries. DHS Retaliates Harshly!

Julia Davis is a national security whistleblower, anti-terrorism/immigration expert, who exposed glaring shortcomings in the processing of applicants for admission into the U.S. from terrorist countries. Julia served as a Customs and Border Protection Officer at the San Ysidro Port of Entry - the largest and busiest land border crossing in the U.S. and in the world. Specific intelligence alerts designated 4th of July, 2004 as a “Date to Watch” of paramount importance, when Al Qaeda leaders were purportedly planning to penetrate porous U.S./Mexico land borders. Julia detected and reported improperly processed entries of 23 aliens from terrorist countries ...
Pat Tillman, Propagandized as NFL American War Hero to Manufacture War Support, is Murdered Before Going Public in Opposition to the Afghan War

Pat Tillman, Propagandized as NFL American War Hero to Manufacture War Support, is Murdered Before Going Public in Opposition to the Afghan War

Death of Pat Tillman, a complete fairytale that was carefully packaged by the mass media so as to elicit a resurgence of support for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at a time when public sentiment had begun to turn against the occupations. During Tillman’s second deployment to Afghanistan he was killed by what the U.S. military initially claimed was a Taliban ambush, but later emerged that the ambush story had been concocted by the Pentagon in an attempt to exploit Tillman’s death for pro-war propaganda. Subsequent investigations claimed that Tillman was killed as a result of a friendly ...