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Battles Over Open Government Cast Shadow on 'Sunshine Week'
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsIn the middle of Sunshine Week promoting transparency in government, open-government advocates say the apparent demotion of a high-level Department of Homeland Security employee for whistle-blowing is particularly dark. "Our government is sending the message to federal workers that they do not want them to come forward and report these problems," Dave Colapinto, the general counsel of the National Whisteblowers Center, told AOL News today by phone. "In other words, they do not want the public to know what is going on." According to The Associated Press, the Department of Homeland Security ...
WikiLeaks Handed Data on Secret Swiss Bank Accounts
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON -- A former Swiss banker today supplied anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks with two CDs containing account details on more than 2,000 high-profile politicians, celebrities, crime bosses and multinationals suspected of tax evasion. Swiss whistle-blower Rudolf Elmer -- the former chief operating officer of the Cayman Islands subsidiary for Swiss bank Julius Baer -- handed the discs to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at a press conference in London. The data relate to offshore bank accounts allegedly held by individuals and companies from across the world, including the U.S., U.K. and Germany, ...
Obama's Non-Response to WikiLeaks Neglects Troops, War on Terror
By Oliver North - Politics DailyWhen WikiLeaks published its "Afghan War Diaries" documents in July, the Obama administration shrugged it off. Obama told the press he was "concerned about the disclosure" but that the documents "don't reveal any issues that haven't already informed our public debate on Afghanistan." The administration's response to WikiLeaks' publication of diplomatic cables this month – many of them embarrassing for U.S. representatives – is equally myopic. Obama has left it to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to deliver the administration's tepid response. He told "Fox & Friends" that ...
WikiLeaks Iraq Documents Detail Deaths, Abuse
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The private website WikiLeaks, acting through several news organizations it selected, released a massive batch of classified Iraq war-related documents, which contain no dramatic new revelations but provide critical "context'' to the war and the U.S. role from 2003 through 2009, the New York Times reported. ...
Iraq War Documents Shed Light on Civilian Deaths, Prisoner Abuse
By David Wood - Politics DailyThe private Web site WikiLeaks, acting through several news organizations it selected, released a massive batch of classified Iraq war-related documents, which contain no dramatic new revelations but provide critical "context'' to the war and the U.S. role from 2003 through 2009, the New York Times reported. The Pentagon protested the release of the documents, saying that publication of the material would harm national security. An examination of the 392,000 documents by the Times revealed that: -- The number of Iraqi civilian deaths is still unclear, but is probably greater than previously ...
WikiLeaks: Iraq War Documents Dump Not Coming Today, But 'Soon'
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Oct. 18) -- Contrary to commonly held rumors, WikiLeaks will not be releasing 400,000 secret military documents relating to the war in Iraq, Agence France-Presse is reporting. But that doesn't mean the Pentagon can breathe a sigh of a relief quite yet. Kristinn Hrafnsson, a spokesman for the whistle-blower group, said documents would be released soon, but definitely not today. "There are rumors that have been floating around for some time, there is nothing you can do about it, they're obviously not correct. I can confirm that there's nothing coming out today," Hrafnsson told AFP. He added ...
Nun Who Was Excommunicated for Denouncing Sex Abuse to Become 'Patron Saint Of Whistleblowers'
By David Gibson - Politics DailyPope Benedict XVI has for months been battered by criticism over his history of dealing quietly with sex abuse by clergy, but in October he could make his most eloquent response yet when he canonizes a 19th-century Australian nun who was once excommunicated in part because she complained about priests who molested children. Mother Mary MacKillop, co-founder of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart, an order dedicated to the religious instruction of children and care for the poor, will be Australia's first native-born saint when Benedict canonizes her at a Mass at St. Peter's in ...
A Quarter of Interpreters in Afghanistan Are Unqualified?
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 9) -- A whistle-blower has stepped forward claiming that more than a quarter of translators working alongside troops in Afghanistan are unqualified, having failed language exams but nonetheless been sent to the battlefield. "I determined that someone -- and I didn't know [who] at that time -- was changing the grades from blanks or zeros to passing grades," Paul Funk told ABC News. Funk used to be in charge of screening Afghan linguists for Mission Essential Personnel, a Ohio contractor. "Many who failed were marked as being passed," he said. Funk filed a whistle-blower lawsuit that ...
Sex, Lies and WikiLeaks: Julian Assange Says He Saw It Coming
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Aug. 23) -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is hot for radical transparency, except when it comes to what goes on inside his bedroom. "What I can say is that I have never, in Sweden or in any country, had sex with anyone in a way that hasn't been based on voluntariness by both sides," Assange told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet in an interview published Sunday. Assange was responding to rape and molestation charges filed against him in Sweden on Aug. 20, along with a warrant for his arrest. The next day, Swedish prosecutors rescinded the rape charge. An investigation into the molestation ...
What Should Be Done About WikiLeaks? 3 Countries Respond
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Aug. 18) -- Ever since WikiLeaks dominated headlines in April with publication of a classified military video retitled "Collateral Murder," a fractious debate over whether the group is helping or harming society has been taking place. Governments are employing various approaches to dealing with the group and its founder, Julian Assange, an Australian national who travels constantly, keeping the details of his whereabouts and WikiLeaks' inner-workings a well-guarded secret. Here are the latest actions they've taken: United States The United States government condemned WikiLeaks for ...
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