whistleblowers

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/21/2021
  

  "A Drop of Treason": Philip Agee, CIA Whisteblower Gets a New Bio

  Jonathan Stevenson's new book on Philip Agee, who left the CIA and exposed its operations in Latin America, struggles to portray the complex mix of principle and egotism that drove its subject. 

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• 11/17/19
  

  The Whistleblowers of the My Lai Massacre

  by Howard Jones

  Evidence—and history—ultimately showed that an Army cover-up took place after the massacre. We know about it because of a single whistleblower and his two crewmates.

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• 11/14/19
  

  The Impeachment Primer: 40+ Articles About Impeachment by Historians

  A detailed list of articles authored by historians that contextualize major themes in the ongiong impeachment inquiry. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9/27/19
  

  Spies in the White House Have a History of Running Wild Without Congressional Oversight

  A former congressional staffer says withholding damning evidence from Congress and using civilians to carry out presidential or intelligence agency agendas links the Ukraine crisis to other scandals.

• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  6-30-13
  

  Peter Van Buren: Edward Snowden’s Long Flight

  Peter Van Buren blew the whistle on State Department waste and mismanagement in his book We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People. A TomDispatch regular, he writes about current events at his blog, We Meant Well. Van Buren’s next book, Ghosts of Tom Joad, A Story of the #99Percent, is due out in March 2014.

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• Why is Our Government Prosecuting Whistleblowers?

  by William J. Astore

  Image via Shutterstock.You know the saying: If you've done nothing wrong, you've nothing to hide. I hear it from my students: I've nothing to hide, so let Big Brother scrutinize my emails, my phone calls, my purchases, my activities online, and so on. Anything to keep us safe from the big, bad terrorists.