Security Whistleblowers Demand End to Retaliation

[cascadiance]

In this article, Sibel indicates now that SHE IS "weighing" an appeal to the Supreme Court, where yesterday she indicated she'd already decided to make that appeal. Hope she's not pulling back. We need to keep encouraging her and the other members of this coalition to keep pushing on for changes and getting the truth out.


From AntiWar.com:

http://www.antiwar.com/ips/fisher.php?articleid=5925

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Security Whistleblowers Demand End to Retaliation
by William Fisher

Fifty current and former employees of U.S. national security agencies are demanding that Congress end government retaliation against those who expose national security blunders.

Leaders of the new group, known as the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC), have stepped up their efforts to win protection since testifying late last month before congressional committees in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.

They called on Congress to take action to permit whistleblowers to sue government retaliators in their personal and official capacities and to bring suit against agencies for failure to rectify misdeeds by employees or provide sufficient safeguards against whistleblower retaliation.

The group is led by Sibel Edmonds, who has been trying to sue the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for firing her in 2002 after she blew the whistle on agency employees. Edmonds said she was fired from her job as a wiretap translator because she told superiors she suspected a co-worker was leaking information to targets of an ongoing FBI probe. The FBI said it fired her because she committed security violations and disrupted the office.

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[unhappycamper]

1. This may be difficult. Fascists don't forget.

Ever. They get even. I might be you, your partner, your parents, or your grandchildren, but they will try to get even.

[atommom]

2. It's going to be very, very difficult to strike back against these

bullies. For starters, the public needs to know just how egregiously the government is behaving ... and for that we need some brave journalists.

[atommom]

3. Kick for Sibel.

:kick:

[blogslut]

4. I would think twice too

...about taking the matter to the SCOTUS. What if they rule against her? Will that be the end of that?

Perhaps she has a better chance of being heard if she just goes ahead and names those names. If they bring suit against her for it, she can fight that all the way to SCOTUS.

But then, I'm not the one laying my life on the line for a principle.