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Dissenters’ Digest takes a look back at news stories covering whistleblowers, watchdogs, and government accountability. Look for it every other Saturday evening at www.dissentersdigest.com.
See You In Court: House Republicans vowed to take Attorney General Eric Holder to court over documents withheld from Congress in its Fast and Furious scandal investigation.
Defiant: Ignoring a surrender order by the London police, Julian Assange has remained in the Ecuador embassy while awaiting President Correa’s decision on his political asylum request.
Abstention: The Justice Department won’t prosecute Attorney General Holder following Congress’ historic contempt vote.
Below the Fold:
–Jason Zuckerman, Senior Legal Adviser at the Office of Special Counsel, discussed how to foster a more ethical culture in the federal government.
–Special Counsel Lerner was commended for turning around the Office of Special Counsel.
–The U.S. Senate passed a bill to honor a Russian whistleblower who died mysteriously while under the custody of Russian authorities in 2009.
–An ATF manager who threatened to “take down” two Fast and Furious whistleblowers was assigned to supervise them. Senator Grassley and Rep. Issa are investigating.
–White House Chief of Staff Jacob Lew claimed the Obama Administration is the “most transparent ever.”
–Senior executives in the federal government are now subject to new financial disclosure requirements.
–Wikileaks has unveiled 2 million emails [video] from Syrian government officials and rebels and U.S. corporations.
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I oft times wonder if the so called Tea Party crowd wasn’t something that was dreamed up by both the republicans and democrats to keep people freaked out enough to make sure the party regulars in each remain in office.
I mean after all AlQueda and the Taliban are just so yesterday.
Where did wikileaks get its financial resources to do the Syrian leaks? I thought that wikileaks were bankrupt, owing to being cut off by paypal etc.
I want to throw up.
U.S. exceptionalism.
Drive by …
Went to Occupy Sac protest today to protest conditions in Sac Cnty Jail and police abuse in general.
Link
Lots of good energy. Bigger than expected crowd (lot of people stay away from protesting police abuse, and lack of good notice) somewhere between 60 and 80 people.
Cindy Sheehan was there, and talked about her experience getting arrested last fall for Occupying Caesar Chavez Park. Filthiest jail she’s ever been in, and she’s been in jails throughout the world.
Should be video later tonight here, and here
recommended reading for the context of (current) history: Beautiful Souls, Eyal Press.
Great. Now let them pass a bill supporting Bradley Manning.
And we’re not just exceptional. We’re exceptionally exceptional.
As long as we’re doing book recommendations: “From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant” by Alex Gilvarry (Viking). An innocent Filipino fashion designer winds up in Guantanamo. What’s remarkable about the book is just how funny it is, although that humor properly evaporates at the end.
They sure know how to keep some of the people fooled all of the time.