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Tips on tax cheats skyrocket with bigger rewards

Dangle some cash and a lot of people are happy to turn in their employers for cheating on their taxes.

Lawmaker seeks group liability for rating agencies

A key House lawmaker wants to make credit rating agencies — widely criticized for failing to give investors adequate warning of the risks in subprime mortgage securities that triggered the financial crisis — collectively liable for inaccuracies.

Committee okays expanded whistleblower protections

A Senate committee on Wednesday unanimously approved legislation to protect federal employees from being punished for blowing the whistle on waste and corruption.

House passes bill to protect whistleblowers

The House voted Wednesday to strengthen whistleblower protections for federal employees, including those working for the Transportation Security Administration and others employed in national security areas.

Court sets limits in government fraud suits

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that a whistleblower law intended to expose fraud can be applied to subcontractors and other indirect recipients of federal funds.

FAA Inspectors Say Concerns Ignored

The whistleblowers who exposed maintenance and inspection problems at Southwest Airlines told Congress their jobs were threatened and their reports of noncompliance were ignored for years.

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EPA Lawyers: Cap-And-Trade 'Fatally Flawed'
Source: investors.com

After stifling a report questioning the science behind climate change, the EPA is censoring two of its lawyers for saying the proposed solutions are also problematical. The debate isn't over.

FROM PATERNALISM TO EMPOWERMENT: Why the DOJ Should Emphasize Anti-discrimination and First Amendment Enforcement in Protecting America's Most Vulnerable People

According to the New York Times, Attorney General Eric Holder harkened to 'the historical mission of the (civil rights) division' in recently announcing plans for the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) to reinvigorate enforcement of anti-discrimination laws.

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (video)
Source: afterdowningstreet

Like today, Vietnam had its Neocons and Zionist war criminals, Nixon and Kissinger, when Bush and his Zionist imperial thugs also lied us into an illegal war in Iraq, or today, Obama and Rham Emanuel, as liberal warmongers, and Zionist war cheerleaders who continue their fascist …

Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds Finally Testifies Under Oath (Video)
Source: afterdowningstreet

With the unraveling of the Bush Criminal policies, it seems that Eric Holder is going to have a hard time controlling, a corrupted Special Prosecutor, involved in a BI PARTISAN, cover up, while using States Secrets, in the same way Bush did, to silence Whistleblowers.

A dangerous precedent
Source: Guardian Unlimited

The ruthless unmasking of the blogger NightJack can only discourage others from speaking out

Bush FBI sent 18 armored agents to search my house, wiretap whistleblower says
Source: Raw Story

The Bush Administration's FBI sent 18 agents in body armor to the home of a man who revealed details of the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program, according to a little-noticed account of the whistleblower published Thursday.

NSA Whistleblower Meets Anthrax 'Person of Interest'
Source: Wired News

They sat near different ends of a long table Thursday: a former Justice Department official who leaked information on Bush's warrantless domestic spying program to the New York Times, and a former Army scientist who was wrongly linked to the 2001 anthrax attacks by different, b …

Project Expose MSM : Newsweek & Michael Isikoff
Source: 123realchange.blogspot.com

In 2003 Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff interviewed me for, and then published a story on the FBI translation program.

Sibel Edmonds: Announcing 'Project Expose MSM'
Source: bradblog.com

We all have been tirelessly screaming about issues related to Congressional leaders abdicating their main responsibility of 'oversight.' We have been outraged for way too long at seeing 'no' accountability whatsoever in many known cases of extreme wrongdoing.

What Acts Does the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Cover?

Sarbanes-Oxley Section 802: Criminal penalties for violation of SOX

Sibel Edmonds: In Congress We Trust... Not
Source: justacitizen.com

I have been known to quote long-dead men in my past writings.

Global Economy - In-house fraud cases surge
Source: FT.com

excerpt: ""Fraud committed against companies by their own employees has surged this year, new data suggest, providing fresh evidence that the recession is fuelling a rise in crime. Whistleblower hotlines operated by The Network, a US group that provides compliance services to s …

Brave girls pay high price for exposing evil
Source: crookwell.yourguide.com.au

TWO girls who exposed their school principal as a sexual predator say their lives have been ruined since they were expelled from the Christian college.

Source: Collins Strips Stim Bill Of Whistleblower Protections
Source: Talking Points Memo

But, according to a person following the bill closely, Collins used today's conference committee to drastically water down the measure, citing national security concerns as the reason for her opposition.

To make government more transparent
Source: The Washington Post

A group of individuals and organizations, calling themselves the Right to Know Community, have urged Obama to create a Window on Government Award to recognize agencies and employees who make government more transparent.

Bush's Final Purge -- In These Times
Source: In These Times

We need more honest, moral people like these whistleblowers in government agencies.

American Chronicle | Bush Firing Disloyal Federal Employees
Source: American Chronicle

Half the story has been told. On Tuesday the Washington Post reported that Bush is creating civil service positions for loyal appointees, in order to make it hard for Obama to get rid of them.

McCain's Bermuda Triangle
Source: The Nation

Just six months after being rebuked by the Senate Ethics Committee for exercising "poor judgment" when he interfered with federal regulators on behalf of a wealthy donor, Senator John McCain engaged in activities that may have constituted an abuse of his office for personal gain.

Whistleblower group calls for end to 'witchhunts'
Source: abc.net.au

Whistleblowers Australia is calling for greater protection for people who speak out about wrongdoing in government departments and agencies at a federal parliamentary inquiry in Sydney today.

Whistleblowers hung out to dry: report
Source: abc.net.au

The Federal Government says it is considering a new report which has found whistleblowers in the public service need greater support and protection.

At the RNC: The FBI Agent, the Retired Colonel, and the Roomful of Anarchists
Source: Feministing

What exactly does it take to get whistle-blower and former FBI agent Anne O'Hare McCormick, retired Army Colonel Ann Wright, and a roomful of dirty anarchists together in an unkempt rec room that, until a few hours ago, was locked on specious charges of fire-code violation? Not m …

Sibel Edmonds Case: Richard Perle continues criminal enterprise, MSM still silent
Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive

In 1989, the Wall Street Journal reported that Richard Perle and Douglas Feith had set up a lobbying company called International Advisors Inc [IAI] to lobby for "appropriation of U.S.

The Aussie who's changing the world of whistleblowers
Source: theage.com.au

In the past year and a half, Australian-born Julian Assange and his band of online dissidents have helped swing the Kenyan Presidential election, embarrassed the US Government and sparked international scandal.

Fmr. Military Intelligence Sgt. Reveals US Listed Palestine Hotel in Baghdad as Target Prior to Killing of Two Journalists in 2003
Source: Democracy Now!

A revealing interview with Adrienne Kinne, former Army sergeant who worked in military intelligence, about the illegal actions taken by the US military in the Middle East.

CENSORSHIP ALERT UPDATE: Heavy legal guns ask judge to reverse Wikileaks shutdown
Source: Ars Technica

Last week, a California judge ordered the DNS entry for wikileaks.org to be removed because of a dispute over the release of what may be sensitive or proprietary materials between a Cayman Island bank and Dynadot, the latter of which is the hosting company that owns the servers  …

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