Blowing the whistle

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Paul K. McMasters, “Inside the First Amendment"
Published Friday January 13, 2006

... President Jimmy Carter, in fact, proposed the Office of Special Counsel to protect whistleblowers “who expose gross management errors and abuses” ...

Consider, for instance, the travails of Sibel Edmonds, the former FBI translator who was fired after she went public with claims of security violations, mismanagement and possible spying within the FBI department translating documents vital to the war on terror.

Another whistleblower, Bunny Greenhouse, was demoted from the top procurement post at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers after she challenged the process by which a subsidiary of Halliburton won multibillion dollar contracts just before the war in Iraq.

Similar troubles were in store for the Army general who disputed his superiors’ troop-strength projections for the Iraq war, the Medicare expert who tried to tell Congress about the real costs of new drug subsidies, and the government climate specialist who was disciplined for pointing out that political appointees were manipulating global-warming data ...

http://www.guardonline.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=32808&format=html

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[Boo Boo]

1. The Plame investigation is not a whistle blower case. /nt

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2. Yes and no. Administration retaliated against whistle-blower Wilson ..

.. indirectly by outing his wife, then has used their rightwing noise machine to obfuscate the issue by claiming the whole thing is a witch-hunt for a leaker.

I'll agree the thinking in this article is a bit muddy on that particular case ...