Late last year, Cartwright pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about disclosing classified information on the Stuxnet computer virus to reporters from the New York Times and Newsweek. The former general, a vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who was known as Obama’s “favorite general,” was due to be sentenced this month […]
Whistleblower Vindicated: Massive Trading Firm Knight Capital Charged With Abusing “Naked Shorts”…
Back in September, I wrote a seven-part series at The Intercept chronicling how former Wall Street trader Chris DiIorio, determined to figure out how he lost a small fortune on a penny stock, came to the conclusion that gigantic market-making firm Knight Capital, now known as KCG, repeatedly violated federal regulations meant to…
NSA Inspector General Facing Termination For Whistleblower Retaliation…
“This is a man, who runs an office that is supposed to protect whistleblowers, yet he described them as manic thieves and other such terminology and was quite hostile and intimidating”…
Snowden Leak: British Intelligence Calls Israel “True Threat” to Middle East…
According to leaked documents released by Edward Snowden, British intelligence spied on Israeli diplomats and military officials in 2008 and 2009, the French newspaper Le Monde and Israel’s Haaretz reported on Wednesday…
More on Brown’s Release…
German Court Rules Snowden Must be Brought to Germany to Answer U.S. Spying Questions…
The German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) has ruled that the German government must make plans to bring former NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to Berlin to answer questions from a parliamentary committee looking into US intelligence agency spying…
Ex-Secretary of State George Shultz’s Grandson Revealed as Theranos Whistleblower…
The Theranos employee who reported the medical tech company to US regulators for allegedly doctoring its trials of a blood-testing device is the grandson of George Shultz, it has emerged. Tyler Shultz, now 26, was working for Theranos – where his 95-year-old ex-Secretary of State grandfather sits on the board…
Edward Snowden Makes ‘Moral’ Case for Presidential Pardon…
Edward Snowden has set out the case for Barack Obama granting him a pardon before the US president leaves office in January, arguing that the disclosure of the scale of surveillance…
Why A Deutsche Bank Whistleblower Turned Down an $8.25 Million Reward: In His Own Words…
“I just got word from the Securities and Exchange Commission that I am to receive half of a $16.5m whistleblower award. But I refuse to take my share”…
Official Who Oversees Whistleblower Complaints Files One of His Own…
The Obama administration’s top official overseeing how intelligence agencies handle whistleblower retaliation claims has lodged his own complaint…