20 Articles

Monday, March 5, 2007
State Secrets Privilege Was Used to Cover Up Corruption and Silence Whistleblowers
Two FBI Whistleblowers Confirm Illegal Wiretapping of Government Officials and Misuse of FISA

Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Sibel Edmonds: The Highjacking of a Nation
(3 comments) Part 2: The Auctioning of Former Statesmen & Dime a Dozen Generals

Monday, September 25, 2006
Over 100 Whistleblowers and Organizations Urge the House Chairman against S.494
(1 comments) The Coalition requested Chairman Hunter's personal intervention to ensure that the protections offered under HR. 5112 are adopted in conference, not the weak and completely ineffective Senate provision, S. 494, during the final conference on the 2007 Defense Authorization Act.

Monday, September 18, 2006
Kill The Messenger
"Kill the Messenger," a documentary produced by Zadig Productions, directed by French filmmakers Mathieu Verboud and Jean Robert Viallet, is scheduled to air on Canal + in France on September 19, 2006. The film will also be aired in Belgium, on BeTV, and Australia, on SBS, this fall. The documentary explores the abuses behind the State Secrets Privilege as invoked in FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds' case

Friday, September 15, 2006
Whistleblower Organizations Urge the House Chairman against S.494
In a letter sent today the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition together with a Consortium of other whistleblower organizations urged Congressman Duncan Hunter, Chairman of the House Committee on Armed Services, to support house substitute for ineffective Senate Amendment which will not protect national security during the final conference on the 2007 Defense Authorization Act

Tuesday, September 5, 2006
The 9/11 Commission: A Play on Nothing in Three Acts
(3 comments) The following Veteran National Security experts were turned away, ignored, or censored by the 9/11 Commission, even though they had direct and relevant information related to the Commission's investigation.

Saturday, September 2, 2006
First Time Released Documents Expose Subservient Congress
(1 comments) These letters show that oversight of Special Access Programs (SAPs) at the Department of Defense is nonexistent because no one in congress has a high enough security clearance.

Monday, August 28, 2006
Sibel Edmonds: Senator Hillary Clinton: All Show and no Substance
(2 comments) Senator Clinton has shown a pattern of studious avoidance of principled action in the face of serious government misconduct, and the refusal to come to the aid of those people who expose that misconduct.

Thursday, August 3, 2006
GOP SENATORS SUPPORT IMPLEMENTATION OF OFFICIAL SECRET'S ACT
(1 comments) Senators Rick Santorum, R-PA, and Conrad Burns, R-MT, support implementation of Official Secret's Act, S.3774, introduced yesterday by Senator Christopher Bond, R-MO, to criminalize the unauthorized disclosure of classified information. Bond's bill seeks to enable the Executive Branch in prosecuting individuals engaged in disclosure of government secrets.

Monday, July 31, 2006
NSA WHISTLEBLOWER'S GRAND JURY APPEARANCE POSTPONED
Based on information obtained by National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, Mr. Russell Tice's appearance before the federal grand jury originally scheduled for Wednesday, August 2, has been cancelled.

Sunday, July 30, 2006
Sibel Edmonds: All That's Given Up In The Name of Security
(1 comments) You may ask how NSA eavesdropping affects you when you have nothing to hide. Let us try to explain why you should worry.

Friday, July 28, 2006
NSA WHISTLEBLOWER IS SUBPOENAED TO TESTIFY BEFORE FEDERAL GRAND JURY
Former NSA intelligence officer Russell Tice was subpoenaed by a federal grand jury to testify in the investigation into who provided the New York Times with information regarding the agency's counterterrorism eavesdropping program.

Wednesday, July 5, 2006
Rumsfeld Subpoenaed By Bi-Partisan House Govt Reform Committee
the House Government Reform Committee issued a subpoena on Friday to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld concerning the case of Army Specialist Samuel Provance. In 2004, Spc. Provance blew the whistle on detainee abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq

Thursday, June 29, 2006
Whistleblowers Hold House & Senate Members Responsible
We, the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, together with whistleblower members of our partner coalitions, consider it our duty to advise Americans of these representatives' collusion with government and private interests to the detriment of the People.

Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Sibel Edmonds: Congress Not Allowed to Receive Information from NSA Whistleblower
(2 comments) NSA says NO senators on Intelligence Committees have adequate security clearance. This is insanely outrageous.

Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Federal Judge in Libby Trial Deliberately Hides Financial Background
Edmonds motion for recusal is based on Judge Walton’s pursuit of secrecy in his required yearly financial disclosure by redacting his entire disclosure statement, his deference to secrecy in his rulings on Edmonds’ previous claims where he was the presiding judge, and the unusual operations of the case assignment system concerning Edmonds’ cases.

Saturday, February 11, 2006
Whistleblowers Are Not Protected, Mr. Goss
Dear Mr. Goss, the timing of your recent op-ed in the New York Times interestingly coincides with the upcoming congressional hearing by the House Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats & International Relations on National Security Whistleblowers.

Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Sibel Edmonds: Illegal & Indiscriminate Spying Hurts Our National Security, Here is Why
Mr. President, please stop. You are damaging our national security and simultaneously destroying what makes us American in mind and soul; our Bill of Rights. Remember what you told us just a few days after 9/11: “The terrorists hate our way of life, and they want to take it away from us.’” Mr. President, they haven’t, you beat them to that result.

Monday, January 16, 2006
NSWBC Lauds the Recent Nonpartisan Speech by Al Gore & Calls for New Whistleblower Legislation
The National Security Whistleblowers Coalition applauds Mr. Gore for his nonpartisan speech, which very eloquently and sincerely expresses our core American values based on the notions of liberty and justice.

Thursday, December 29, 2005
NSWBC Call to Patriotic Duty
Rather than complying with classification and secrecy orders designed to protect officials engaging in criminal conduct, whistleblowers chose to risk their livelihoods and the wrath of their agencies to get the truth out. But will they be listened to by those who are charged with accountability?