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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPresident Obama signs law protecting federal whistleblowers.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/11/president-obama-signs-law-upgrading-whistleblower-protectionsWhen it comes to protecting whistleblowers, President Obama's track record has been fairly bleak. In his first term, he trampled over them on his quest to aggressively prosecute government leakers. But Obama's legacy on the issue may have changed on Tuesday when he signed a law called the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, a far-reaching bill that affords federal whistleblowers a host of new safeguards.
I was curious about this and hadn't seen anyone here talking about it. Sorry if its a repost.
Wind Dancer
(3,618 posts)This is great news! I'm surprised it's not getting more attention here.
K & R
DFab420
(2,466 posts)Susan Rice.
I mean honestly the top GD threads at this moment are:
1. Rice
2. Rice and Benghazi
3. Alan Grayson (YAY)
4. RICE
5. Some bullshit article about Obama capitulating again
6. Matt Taibbi
7. Porn star
8. Gulf of Mexico
9. VA-GOV story
10. RICE
11. Vibrators....
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patrice
(47,992 posts)the whole BushCo environment, which PO entered, would have basically been akin to the Wild West, perhaps even with some whistle-blowers stepping on legal conditions of what could have been the productive effects of other whistle-blowers. Step #1 in trying to bring to effective result from anything that might have been good information coming out of all of those "mavericks" would have been to bring the situation into somekind of stasis, discipline, so that authentic government reform would have a chance to honor the good info by sifting it out of the not-so-good info, outright bad info, or even what could be quick-draw whistle-blowers, produced by a de facto un-regulated environment in which there had to have been at least some CYA going on that manifests as whistle-blowing on whistle-blowers, that is, whistle-blowing squared, or even cubed.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)MineralMan
(146,338 posts)on that one. Truly.
Magoo48
(4,721 posts)DFab420
(2,466 posts)I mean in all seriousness what Bradley Manning did was the right thing to do, and the way he's treated is abhorrent but lets not pretend what he did is the same as what people who came forward with facts that tobacco companies knew they were killing people..Because they aren't.
Manning was a soldier in our army and used his position to leak thousands of classified documents to a foreign media outlet..
Do you really think he didn't know he was going to be held and tried?
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)cpamomfromtexas
(1,247 posts)DFab420
(2,466 posts)But I could be wrong
ProSense
(116,464 posts)http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021890422
DFab420
(2,466 posts)But it seems no one else cares about the good things again...
Only took a month this time around..
Setting records here.
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)DFab420
(2,466 posts)DFab420
(2,466 posts)Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)Hell☠Fawkin☠Bound ?@HellFawker
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture: US violated international law over Manning http://fb.me/2dVTE8e60
This is what he gets for revealing the truth about Bush's war crimes.
upi402
(16,854 posts)Maybe Thom Hartmann, not sure - but was very happy to learn of it!!!