Also Try Homeland Security Violations News -02-27-06 Army Whistleblower Demoted (CBS News) "A high-ranking Army Corps of Engineers official who publicly criticized the Pentagon's decision to award Halliburton Co. a no-bid contract for work in Iraq has been demoted, officials said Monday." " 'The failure to abide by prior commitments and the circumstances surrounding Ms. Greenhouse's removal are the hallmark of illegal retaliation,' her attorney, Michael D. Kohn, wrote in the letter to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld." " 'Her removal will send a message to all concerned that if they dare stand up to corrupting influences within the Army contracting world their careers will be destroyed,' he added." 02-06 -06-16-06 Whistleblowers Report on September 11 Thefts (CBS News) "Once-secret documents obtained by The Associated Press detail how the company, Kieger Enterprises of Lino Lakes, Minn., went unpunished for the Sept. 11 thefts after the government discovered FBI agents and other government officials had stolen artifacts from New York's ground zero." "As a result, most Americans were kept in the dark about a major fraud involving their donated goods even as new requests for charity emerged with disasters like Hurricane Katrina. And Christopherson and L'Allier were left disillusioned." 06-06 Papers American-Turkish Council (Wikipedia.org) "The American-Turkish Council (ATC) is a business association dedicated to enhancing the promotion of US-Turkish Commercial, Defense, Technology and Cultural Relations in Washington DC." "Growing media scrutiny of the ATC is a result of allegations made by FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds regarding suspect activities of council members in an article in the September 2005 Vanity Fair." "The ATC is where former Ambassador Joseph Wilson met his future wife and CIA operative, Valerie Plame, leading some to speculate Plame's CIA front company, Brewster-Jennings & Associates, was monitoring the same alleged nuclear trafficking of the ATC as Sibel Edmonds." 09-09 FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds Says Neocons Negotiated Iraq Invasion (DailyKos.com) "In an interview with former CIA officer Phillip Giraldi, FBI translator turned whistleblower Sibel Edmonds named Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, and Richard Perle as having been wiretapped and recorded discussing plans with the Turkish ambassador in the Summer of 2001 to invade Iraq and occupy the Kurdish region bordering Turkey." 09-09 Fighting Big Tobacco (CBS News) "Jeffrey Wigand was the maverick insider who - at what he considered was great personal risk to himself and his family - blew the whistle on big tobacco." "Back in 1995, he exposed the lies we'd all been told for decades about cigarettes: about their capacity to addict us, about their capacity to kill us." "Since then, he's literally changed the air we breathe. But, in an interview with Correspondent Mike Wallace 10 years ago, Wigand became the first major tobacco insider to reveal that the cigarette companies were consciously trying to get us hooked on nicotine." 1-05 Persons of the Year (Time.com - Lacayo and Ripley) Describes the heroism of Cynthia Cooper, Coleen Rowley, and Sherron Watkins. They are sometimes called "whistleblowers" because they tried to help correct something very wrong within their own organizations by reporting the problems to their top authorities. "They took huge professional and personal risks to blow the whistle on what went wrong at WorldCom, Enron and the FBI—and in so doing helped remind us what American courage and American values are all about." "Very quickly it became clear that none of them are rebels in the usual sense. The truest of true believers is more like it, ever faithful to the idea that where they worked was a place that served the wider world in some important way. But sometimes it's the keepers of the flame who feel most compelled to set their imperfect temple to the torch. When headquarters didn't live up to its mission, they took it to heart." Visitors sometimes call it whistle blowers 1-03 Sibel Edmonds, Whistleblower (DailyKos.com) "Sibel Deniz Edmonds (born 1970)[1] is a Turkish-American[2][3][4] former FBI translator and founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC). Edmonds was fired from her position as a language specialist at the FBI's Washington Field Office in March, 2002, after she accused a colleague of covering up illicit activity involving foreign nationals, alleging serious acts of security breaches, cover-ups, and intentional blocking of intelligence which, she contended, presented a danger to the United States' security. Since that time, court proceedings on her whistleblower claims have been blocked by the assertion of State Secrets Privilege. On March 29, 2006, she was awarded the PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award in recognition of her defense of free speech as it applies to the written word.[5]" 09-09 Sibel Edmonds: Whistleblower on Terrorist Attacks (ACLU.org) "ISibel Edmonds, a 32-year-old Turkish-American, was hired as a translator by the FBI shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 because of her knowledge of Middle Eastern languages. She was fired less than a year later in March 2002 for reporting shoddy work and security breaches to her supervisors that could have prevented those attacks." 09-09 Whistleblower Protection (Project on Government Oversight) Allows whistleblowers to help stop corruption without necessarily having to be publicly exposed. Covers only federal level corruption but includes corporations serving the federal government. Visitors sometimes call it whistle blowers. 7-02 Whistleblower Protection (WhistleBlowers.org) Provides a summary of federal protections for whistleblowers. No single, comprehensive federal law covers whistle blowers. Visitors sometimes call it whistle blowers. 7-02 Whistleblowers at Los Alamos Rehired (CBS News) "Glenn Walp and Steve Doran were fired in November after they reported on $2.7 million in missing computers and property and the misuse of lab-issued charge cards — including one employee who tried to use a lab charge card to buy a souped-up Ford Mustang." "Friedman said the reasons given for the firing 'do not withstand scrutiny,' and the timing was suspect." "Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham also expressed concern about the firings, and last week the university hired the two men to advise the university's investigation of Los Alamos." Visitors sometimes call it whistle blowers 1-03

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