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Fans of whistleblower Bunnatine “Bunny” Greenhouse are celebrating the resolution of her lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In a court-approved settlement, Greenhouse will receive $970,000 for lost wages, compensatory damages and attorney fees. But, “No settlement is going to make me whole,” Greenhouse told the Washington Post. (Photo: Bunnatine Greenhouse with attorney Steve Kohn)
Police are investigating the death of Sean Hoare, the “former News of the World reporter who first claimed that Andy Coulson knew of phone hacking by his staff,” found dead at his home on July 18.
Hertfordshire police described the death as ”unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious.”
In an article for the Guardian, “Let the law save whistleblowers, not silence them,” Nick Cohen notes the lack of whistleblowers in the News Corp. scandal.
By Maynard Eaton, published June 16 @ opednews.com; reposted with permission.
ATLANTA (GA) — Is it me or have all Georgia judges gone completely wild?
Today, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) published online a complete and unredacted digital copy of the once classified report known as the “Pentagon Papers.” Portions of the report, showing how government officials deceived the public about the Viet Nam War, were published exactly 40 years today in the New York Times.
With its case collapsing, the Department of Justice agreed on Thursday to drop ten criminal charges against NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake. In exchange, Drake agreed to plead guilty Friday to one misdemeanor count of “exceeding authorized use of a computer.” Sentencing is scheduled for July 15.
