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1. Land of the free?
(News/Freedom of Information)
... under the Freedom of Information Act. Government whistleblowers have repeatedly been punished or fired—even when they have been trying to expose threats to national security that their bosses preferred ...
... Australia will resort to legal muscle to redress political embarrassment. Do we now live in a country where whistleblowers and journalists can expect to be hunted down and charged if they reveal government ...
3. Labour propose institutional reforms
(News/Irish Politics and Public Affairs)
... include legislation covering whistleblowers, official secrets, ethics and judicial standards.    ...
4. Happy birthday to us, sing MEPs
(News/EU Politics)
... Paul van Buitenen, the whistleblower whose revelations brought down the commission in 1999, now says he needs to do a similar clean-up of parliament, where he is now a member. He told me that if there ...
5. Whitehall revolving door under scrutiny
(News/The Revolving Door)
... a convincing argument for following the US system, where there were clearly defined legal requirements covering such moves. If breaches were reported by whistleblowers “then the normal forces of ...
... flirtation with radical Islamism” He dedicated the pamphlet “to a Foreign Office whistleblower [i.e., Pasquill] whose courageous actions have allowed me to expose Whitehall’s love affair ...
... a memo revealing Bush confiding his wish to bomb Al Jazeera’s offices in Qatar to Tony Blair. Leo O’Connor and David Keogh, the whistleblowers, have been subsequently), so on and so forth. ...
... was intending to motivate his sales staff to sell more cancer drugs, an industry blogger got hold of the newsletter from a whistleblower and published the comments, sparking an online debate about the ...
... on Sunday by a Whitehall whistleblower, has sparked demands for an inquiry into 'an outrageous attempt to deceive Parliament'. The civil servant, who called from a public phone box, said there ...
... Keith Harmon Snow and David Barouski. Z Magazine, March 1, 2006. 6. Whistleblower Protection in Jeopardy Special Counsel Scott Bloch, appointed by President Bush in 2004, is overseeing the virtual ...
11. Whistleblowers - Part 2
(Video/Corporate Power)
A section of Mark Achbars excellent documentary "The Corporation " featuring two journalists who had difficulty getting a public health story about Bovine Growth Hormone broadcast on Fox News.  ...
12. Whistleblowers - Part 1
(Video/Corporate Power)
A section of Mark Achbars excellent documentary "The Corporation " featuring two journalists who had difficulty getting a public health story about Bovine Growth Hormone broadcast on Fox News.  ...
13. Publish and be damned?
(Articles/Secrecy)
By Julie-ann Davies, 4 October 2006 Former British cabinet minister and memoirist Tony Benn discusses the protection of whistleblowers and why the public has a right to know  On 25 July 2006 the ...
... have been on a leaker or whistleblower.  Indeed Dr Kelly’s suicide should be a constant reminder to every journalist of the dangers which an informant can face when there is a collective failure ...
15. BP Lies About Everything Says Critic
(News/Energy Industries)
... a full court public relations counterattack by the UK-based oil giant. For more than a decade, Hamel has been a thorn in BP’s side, funneling BP whistleblower complaints to reporters, legislators, ...
... recent upsurge in the illicit flow of confidential information. And, against the background of recent cases involving whistleblowers, he assesses the motives for the government’s latest attempt to ...
17. Whistleblowers
(FAQ/About SpinWatch)
How should whistleblowers get in touch? In the past we have worked with whistleblowers on some of the most contentious issues: Northern Ireland, the role of the media, genetic engineering, the oil industry, ...
... general manager corporate affairs, Nicholas Schofield. Judge Curtis accepted evidence from a BAT whistleblower, Fred Gulson, that the purpose of the policy was to allow the company to destroy damaging ...
19. New laws to punish whistle blowers
(News/British Government)
... secret information. He wants longer jail sentences and the removal of a key legal defence of “necessity” for whistleblowers. The crackdown is aimed at preventing cases such as that of Katharine Gun, ...
... general manager corporate affairs, Nicholas Schofield. Judge Curtis accepted evidence from a BAT whistleblower, Fred Gulson, that the purpose of the policy was to allow the company to destroy damaging ...
... can so easily be taken advantage of.  What I found was that there are three broad categories of leaks: some come from genuine whistleblowers, people who feel compelled, for example, to draw attention ...
22. The Pit Bull Of Public Relations
(News/PR Industry)
... Dezenhall communications from 2003 show that employees there discussed a plan to pay newspaper opinion writers to publish articles questioning the credibility and motivation of Enron whistleblower Sherron ...
... whistleblower Sherron Watkins. It couldn't be determined whether the idea was put into action. O'Melveny partner Daniel Petrocelli, Skilling's lead lawyer in the Enron fraud trial, says that the relationship ...
... preliminary inquiries in order to decide whether there is any matter that warrants investigation," she said, adding the information had arisen from the Met's confidential phone line for whistleblowers. Mr ...
... Big Brother control of this kind do not exist; a plot on such a scale would be instantly exposed by any number of whistleblowers.   Far more plausible is Herman and Chomsky’s suggestion that ...
... had to influence only fifty key people in order to introduce TMAP to every state in the nation. Allen Jones, a whistleblower in Pennsylvania, had this to say about NASMHPD: “Janssen’s influence of state ...
The ObserverJo Revill, health editorSunday December 11, 2005 A whistleblower who raised concerns about a study that his research unit carried out with a major drugs company is to have his allegations ...
... the personal cost of whistleblowing and why potential whistleblowers today who are contemplating the next catastrophe should not wait until it is too late. An interview with Daniel Ellsberg Part one ...
... channels. This weekend, Blumsohn remains suspended, at home with his wife and children in Sheffield. He sees himself as a whistleblower, revealing tensions at the heart of the scientific and pharmaceutical ...
30. Secrets and Silence
(Blogs/Joan Doyle)
... whistleblowers under a piece of outdated and outlandish legislation which does not permit a public interest defence. While in opposition, Tony Blair called the Official Secrets Act “draconian” ...
... by the Albanian mafia, characterized by continuing ethnic cleansing and subject to increasing infiltration by al Qaeda-linked Muslim jihadists, according to a whistleblower interviewed by Cybercast News ...
... allowing excessive secrecy to prevail in our open society. Over the last decade, whistleblowers helped the federal government recover more than seven billion dollars, according to the latest figures from ...
... against a Shell whistleblower, Dr John Huong, in respect of information published by me under the name of Dr Huong. Shell subsequently threatened Dr Huong with imprisonment in relation to his postings ...
The New Zealand Herald By Greg Ansley 27 August, 2005 Two journalists face the prospect of jail, with two more likely to join them, in a crackdown on whistleblowers that has added to what ...
35. A senior British official said…
(Articles/Government spin)
... States. Julie-ann Davies explores the issues with some leading journalists and high-profile whistleblowers. On 29 May 2003 BBC defence correspondent Andrew Gilligan reported on Radio 4’s Today ...
36. The Guardian and the de Menezes killing
(News/British Politics)
... Iraq and the death of whistleblower Dr. David Kelly. After these experiences, anyone concerned with democratic rights need not question the personal integrity of the IPCC?s members to oppose the notion ...
... an independent investigation of "improper action that favored KBR's interests." He also asked that his client be protected against retaliation under whistleblower statutes. Then he reminded the Army secretary ...
... Act should be passed and Constitutional amendments made to safeguard this." The Cabinet resolution also called for mechanisms to be established to safeguard the identities of so-called whistleblowers ...
39. What the Hell Happened?
(News/Africa)
... going on in this country that this could happen?" To finish the flashback, the Pentagon Papers episode was just the beginning. Two days before the historic Supreme Court case, the whistleblower who had ...
40. Mystery of the nuclear whistleblower
(News/Nuclear Industry)
... has tracked down former whistleblowers and US congressional investigators who claim that people are risking serious harm by exposing flaws in the US atomic project at a time when the Bush administration ...
41. Cops Debunk Whistleblower Beating
(News/Nuclear Industry)
CBS News CBS/ Associated Press 9 June, 2005 An attack on a Los Alamos nuclear lab auditor outside a bar was unrelated to his status as a whistleblower, authorities said Thursday, calling into question ...
... the word through advocacy groups and labor unions to invite whistleblowers to come forward. Their plan is to depict what they and a growing number of critics perceive to be Wal-Mart's sins against society: ...
... recently, it was disclosed that the US has sent detainees to be interrogated in countries which practice torture. The aim, apparently, is to avoid leaks from witnesses and whistleblowers about the prisoners' ...
The Guardian Matt WeaverThursday May 19, 2005 A BBC reporter today expressed his outrage at being duped into revealing a source who had blown the whistle on Westminster council's slow progress in recovering ...
45. Mole betrayed striking miners
(News/British Politics)
...  In the past, whistleblowers have said that the Thatcher government used MI5 and GCHQ, the electronic eavesdroppers, to snoop on the miners to crush the strike. The new files, released under the Freedom ...
... environmental management program that has cost more than $20 million. The latest charges against BP stem from claims made recently by BP whistleblowers who exposed their company's severe safety and maintenance ...
...  Leaders of the new group, known as the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC), have stepped up their efforts to win protection since testifying late last month before Congressional committees ...
48. New York Times Distortions
(News/US Politics)
Off the Charts: New York Times Minimizes Palestinian Deaths, Defames Media Whistleblowers by Alison Weir  Apr 25th, 2005 http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=7730 ...
... with the contempt reserved for whistleblowers the world over - first ignored and then, when he persisted, fired. Among the startling revelations in the dossier he compiled were details of relatives ...