Blog posts with "Whistleblower Surveillance"

The increasing erosion of our First Amendment freedom of the press in the name of ‘national security’ caused the United States’ ranking in the World Press Freedom Index to plummet to 46th out of 180 countries. The Obama Administration’s unparalleled suppression of national security whistleblowers and the journalists reporting information leaked by these whistleblowers contributed to the United States’ decline, which is explained as follows by Reporters Without Borders (the publisher...

According to a recent New York Times article, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) conducted an “extraordinary surveillance effort” on its own scientists following “a bitter dispute lasting years between the scientists and their bosses at the F.D.A. over the scientists’ claims that faulty review procedures at the agency had led to the approval of medical imaging devices for mammograms and colonoscopies that exposed patients to dangerous levels of radiation.” The FDA’s Orw...