Tag: cia
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Jeffrey Sterling convicted of espionage on circumstantial evidence
Government lawyers used a few brief phone calls and a deleted email to prosecute the former CIA official for espionage for allegedly disclosing classified information; convicted of 9 counts, Sterling’s sentencing case is scheduled for 24 April
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Citizenfour’s Escape to Freedom in Russia
Courage Advisory Board member Ray McGovern recounts his experience meeting Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, other fellow whistleblowers, and seeing the acclaimed documentary Citizenfour
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Obama: “If you blow the whistle, you should be thanked”
President Obama says whistleblowers should be “protected”, “thanked”, and “certainly shouldn’t be punished” – while punishing more whistleblowers than any other president in American history
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Yochai Benkler outlines public accountability defence for whistleblowers
In a new paper, Benkler details both the value and inevitability of national security disclosures, and he proposes a whistleblower defence that could have helped protect Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden
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CIA spying on its own “internal channels” for whistleblowers
McClatchy reports that the CIA is treating internal channels as insider threats