…with professional standards for independence.” In other words, if you wanted to inspire confidence in whistleblowers and others that the State Department is being held accountable by an independent official, that official shouldn’t be a former State Department official…
…reap the full rewards of textural criticism. To wit: Yglesias’ notion that presidents try to deliver on campaign promises may be right, notwithstanding Obama’s spotty record. (See ethics reform, whistleblowers, the surveillance state, the public option, the minimum wage…
…pointing out that this is one of the eight criminal leak investigations that the Obama administration has initiated. “That is more than twice the number of criminal cases against whistleblowers that have been prosecuted in all of history,” she said…
…s terrorism indictment for allegedly releasing caged minks and foxes, along with efforts to enact so-called "ag-gag" state legislation that punishes undercover investigations and whistleblowing in animal agricultural facilities, suggest these laws infringe on more than civil liberties…
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