Navy SEAL Vet: Obama Asking If Military will Fire Upon U.S. Citizens
Former Navy SEAL Ben Smith warns that the Obama administration is asking top brass in the military if they would be comfortable with disarming U.S. …
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Former CIA Agent Edward Snowden Begins Leaking Docs on NSA Spying of Every American
Edward Snowden is an American computer professional from N.C., a former Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) employee, and former contractor for the United States government who copied …
FBI Whistleblower Darin Jones Exposes Serious Procurement “Improprieties… Is Later Fired.
Most whistleblowers either suffer in anonymity or are personally, professionally, socially and financially ruined for speaking truth to power. Darin Jones is one of those …
Panel of Whistleblowers Discuss National Security Secrecy & Surveillance
A panel discussion on National Security, Secrecy and Surveillance in New York City was sponsored by the Open Society Foundations and the Government Accountability Project, and moderated by Steven Aftergood, …
U.S. Government Retaliation Charges of Espianage Act Violations Against NSA Whisleblower Thomas Drake Dropped
In April 2010, the government alleged that Thomas Drake – a former senior executive of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), a decorated U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy veteran, and a whistleblower …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …