Van Buren Gets Favorite Whistleblower Retaliation Career-Ender: Pulling...
The Government Accountability Project has a new article up about my problems with my security clearance, suspended by the State Department in retaliation for a link on this blog to a document on a...
View ArticleOn RT.com: War on Whistleblowers
The House Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government-Sponsored Enterprises passed a bill that severely weakens protection for corporate whistleblowers. The bill requires the whistleblower to...
View ArticleSpeaking Truth to Power
(This article by William Astore originally appeared on Huffington Post) When you dare speak truth to power, the reality is that power already knows the truth, doesn’t want you to share it, and will...
View ArticleMedia Respond to State Department Firing Demand
Read more about the State Department seeking to fire me: The Atlantic Washington Post Democracy Now! Huffington Post WUSA, Channel 9 in Washington DC Zomobo Video Compilation Diplopundit Mother Jones...
View ArticleApril 1: Reflecting on My Image
Diplomatic Security electronic monitoring foolishly recorded the following subject interaction April 1. Thank you for coming in Mr. Van Buren. Image Consultants, Inc. was founded to assist people in...
View ArticleMy Oath is to the Constitution, Not Hillary
My thanks to Ryan, who I don’t know and have never met, for putting together this inspiring video making clear the difference between being a government drone and pretending your oath of allegiance is...
View ArticleSenate Passes Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act
The Project for Government Oversight (POGO) details the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act that the Senate passed for the fourth time. It is now up to the House to take a break from worrying...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Congress from Federal Whistleblowers: Strengthen Protections
Over the course of the last year or so I have met many men and women who risked their freedom, their careers and their livelihoods to expose government waste, fraud, unconstitutional domestic spying,...
View ArticleCreating Chaos: We Meant Well in Washington Diplomat Magazine
The nice people at Washington Diplomat magazine are running a nice piece on We Meant Well. The article is mostly in Q&A format and the author, himself a former Foreign Service Officer, asked some...
View ArticleJesse Ventura (Hearts) We Meant Well
Testing the old saying “there is no such thing as bad publicity,” former pro-wrestler former Minnesota governor and possible crazy person Jesse “The Body” Ventura has written a new book in which he...
View ArticleWhy Is Obama Bashing a Whistleblower Law He Signed?
Why is Obama bashing a Whistleblower Law he signed? Because he isn’t going to actually follow the law, which tries to grant whistleblower protections to government contractors. Mother Jones weighs in...
View ArticleBradley Manning Speaks
The Freedom of the Press Foundation released an audio recording of Bradley Manning’s statement to the military court. By releasing this audio recording, we wish to make sure that the voice of this...
View ArticleOh Poppycock!
At an April 30 briefing regarding press reports that the State Department is seeking to intimidate or punish employees planning on blowing the whistle on Department incompetence surrounding the deaths...
View ArticleHomeland Insecurity: Robert MacLean and TSA
Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com What do words mean in a post-9/11 world? Apart from the now clichéd Orwellian twists that turn brutal torture into mere enhanced interrogation, the devil is in the...
View ArticleEdward Snowden’s Long Flight: What a Whistleblower Thinks a Fellow...
What a Whistleblower Thinks a Fellow Whistleblower Might Have Thought This article originally appeared on Huffington Post. As a State Department whistleblower, I think a lot about Edward Snowden. I...
View ArticleObama Promise To ‘Protect Whistleblowers’ Just Disappeared From Change.gov
The whistleblower statement is online, buried in a less prominent location multiple clicks deep. While I regret the technical error, my sentiments are unchanged. –Peter (On the day Bradley Manning’s...
View ArticleState Dept Whistleblower Email Hacked and Laptops Stolen from Lawyer’s Office
Probably just a coincidence but… The personal Gmail account of a State Department whistleblower, Richard P. Higbie, a diplomatic security agent, was hacked, and four years worth of messages — some...
View ArticleGovernment Demands Whistleblower Organization’s Encrypted Files
For those people who still do not believe we have crossed a terrible line into a Post-Constitutional state, here’s another chance to repent before we all go to hell. The Department of Veterans Affairs’...
View ArticleAnother Whistleblower Speaks Out: Air Force Contract Fraud
Looking for a new hero? Meet former Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Tim Ferner, who exposed millions in U.S. government contract fraud, and paid the price for his patriotism. Contract Fraud with Your...
View ArticleStanding Up for Another State Department Whistleblower
Tough times call for desperate acts… Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Related Articles: Obama Orders Airstrikes on Ebola (Satire) Ray Maxwell, Whistleblowers, Hillary Clinton and Benghazi...
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