Rough Times for Whistleblowers

Today, I'll be attending a meeting organized by GAP. 

One last thing. Back before I got to know the whistleblower community I assumed that whistleblowers were waiting to report on the corruption of the Bush administration. Eventually I learned that thousands of whistleblowers had indeed filed reports with the Department of Justice but the DOJ had sandbagged them, failing to act on almost all of them. 

Since Obama has taken office, most whistleblowers say his administration and his DOJ treat whistleblowers worse than any previous president. I mentioned this in a diary I posted yesterday and reasonably, one commenter, Fannie, challenged me on  it. 

I asked two OEN writers to respond-- Jesselyn Raddack happened to be sitting next to me at the conference when I saw the comment, so I asked her to respond. Here's what she wrote; " Obama has brought more prosecutions against whistleblowers under the Espionage Act than any previous president and ALL PRESIDENTS combined."

And Jerry Policoff, the person who'd given me that statistic in the first place, commented, titling his comment, Obama's War on Whistleblowers:

 Hi Fannie;

I am Rob's "source" for his statement that "Obama administration has been harder on whistleblowers than all the previous presidents combined."

President Obama's war on whistleblowere has been very, very widely reported in the domestic and international press as well as in the blogosphere.  In fact if you Google "Obama + whistleblowers" you will get over 2 million references.  See for yourself  here .

Probably the best article was published in  The New Yorke r  in May by Jane Mayer, and  here  is another good overview by Glenn Greenwald.

Here is an excerpt from the Greenwald article that says it all:

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