A Real Mindblowing Event: National Security Whistleblower Sub-Committee Hearings
COMPILATION OF INTELLIGENCE LAWS AND RELATED LAWS AND EXECUTIVE ORDERS OF INTEREST TO THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY - March 25, 2003
If anyone is interested in looking at a compilation of laws, executive orders and regulations that apply to the "war on terror" and national security, the link above goes directly to a report submitted to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (aka Intelligence Committee).
Additionally, I urge all of you to view/listen to the National Security Whistleblower Sub-Committee hearings where no less than 5 reliable witnesses testified of retaliation for blowing the whistle on abuses and weakneses in the military (Abu Ghraib), the National Security Agency (Domestic Spying), the DOE (Nuclear Power Plant Security), the Defense Intelligence Agency (Operation Able Danger) and the FBI (terrorism investigation). The witnesses included Army Specialist Samuel Provance, Lt Col. Anthony Shaffer(Army Reserve), Russell Tice (formerly of the NSA), Richard Levernier (Dept. of Energy), and Agent Michale German (FBI). The video is not yet available on the C-Span web site, but I would recommend that we all submit FOIA requests for the official records and transcripts of those hearings:
Congressional Panel Considers Changes In Whistleblower Law
If anyone is interested in looking at a compilation of laws, executive orders and regulations that apply to the "war on terror" and national security, the link above goes directly to a report submitted to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (aka Intelligence Committee).
Additionally, I urge all of you to view/listen to the National Security Whistleblower Sub-Committee hearings where no less than 5 reliable witnesses testified of retaliation for blowing the whistle on abuses and weakneses in the military (Abu Ghraib), the National Security Agency (Domestic Spying), the DOE (Nuclear Power Plant Security), the Defense Intelligence Agency (Operation Able Danger) and the FBI (terrorism investigation). The witnesses included Army Specialist Samuel Provance, Lt Col. Anthony Shaffer(Army Reserve), Russell Tice (formerly of the NSA), Richard Levernier (Dept. of Energy), and Agent Michale German (FBI). The video is not yet available on the C-Span web site, but I would recommend that we all submit FOIA requests for the official records and transcripts of those hearings:
Congressional Panel Considers Changes In Whistleblower Law
"WASHINGTON --Five government whistleblowers said Tuesday they had faced retaliation for calling attention to alleged government wrongs, such as prisoner abuse in Iraq and illegal surveillance at the National Security Agency.
Sign up for: Globe Headlines e-mail | Breaking News Alerts They told their stories to the House Government Reform Committee's national security subcommittee, whose chairman, Rep. Chris Shays, R-Conn., indicated an interest in altering the law to better protect national-security whistleblowers.
Shays said they are vulnerable to unique forms of retaliation, including suspension or revocation of security clearance, which can have the same "chilling effect" as demotion or firing.
"The system is broken," Shays said."
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