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Edward Snowden is an American whistleblower who copied and leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency in 2013 when he was a Central Intelligence Agency employee and subcontractor. His new book "Permanent Record" is now available. ANOTHER WHISTLEBLOWER BITES THE DUST AS THE INTERCEPT ADDS A THIRD NOTCH TO ITS BURN BELTtag:12160.info,2019-05-12:2649739:Topic:19135622019-05-12T07:54:59.940ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
<div id="newsheader"><h2>SOURCE:<span> </span><a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/daniel-hale-another-whistleblower-bites-the-dust-as-the-intercept-adds-a-third-notch-to-its-burn-belt/258386/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">MINT PRESS</a></h2>
<div class="div_clear"><span class="drop-cap">E</span>arly Thursday morning, the Department of Justice …</div>
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<div id="newsheader"><h2>SOURCE:<span> </span><a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/daniel-hale-another-whistleblower-bites-the-dust-as-the-intercept-adds-a-third-notch-to-its-burn-belt/258386/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MINT PRESS</a></h2>
<div class="div_clear"><span class="drop-cap">E</span>arly Thursday morning, the Department of Justice <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-intelligence-analyst-charged-disclosing-classified-information" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unsealed an indictment</a>against Daniel Everette Hale — a former intelligence analyst for the U.S. Air Force and National Security Agency (NSA) and later a defense contractor working for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) — for providing a reporter with classified government information. The reporter in question, although unnamed in the indictment, is Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of and journalist for the online publication <em>The Intercept</em>.</div>
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<div id="newsdetail"><p>The indictment against Hale makes him <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/bad-track-record-gets-worse-new-whistleblower-outed-intercept/239822/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the third Intercept source</a> to be charged with leaking classified information to the outlet in less than two years. Notably, both of the government whistleblowers that have already been prosecuted and convicted by the Trump administration – Reality Winner and Terry Albury – were <em>Intercept</em> sources who were outed as whistleblowers by reporters working for the online publication.</p>
<p>The publication, which has long been associated with the documents shared by whistleblower Edward Snowden, has yet to fire any of the reporters responsible for these breaches that have seen two whistleblowers already imprisoned and third, Daniel Hale, likely to be imprisoned.</p>
<p>Despite its increasingly dismal track record, the publication – <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/fbi-whistleblower-on-pierre-omidyar-campaign-to-neuter-wikileaks/236414/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">largely funded by</a> government-linked tech billionaire Pierre Omidyar – continues to invite and “welcome” whistleblowers from the public and private sector and implores them to “consider sharing your information securely with us.”</p>
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<h2>“AN UTTER FAILURE OF SOURCE PROTECTION. AGAIN”</h2>
<p>According to the Department of Justice website and the oficial indictment, Hale has been charged with obtaining national defense information, retention and transmission of national defense information, causing the communication of national defense information, disclosure of classified communications intelligence information, and theft of government property. Each charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, meaning that Hale faces 50 years behind bars.</p>
<p>The indictment, which can be read in full<a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/press-release/file/1161201/download" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>, details that Hale and “the reporter” (Scahill) communicated rather insecurely on several occasions,<a href="https://twitter.com/jimmysllama/status/1126530320621293568" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appearing at public events</a> together, talking by phone and sending unencrypted text messages by phone.</p>
<p>Other information in the indictment shows that Scahill is clearly “the reporter” in question, given that “the reporter” in the indictment attended the Oscars in 2014 and held book events at the Washington, D.C. venue Busboys and Poets on April 29, 2013 and on June 8, 2013. During the June 8 book event, the indictment states that Hale was seated next to “the reporter” at an event where said reporter was promoting his book. <a href="https://twitter.com/jimmysllama/status/1126490081873879040" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A video</a> taken at an event at Busboys and Poets held on June 8, 2013 shows Hale seated next to Scahill.</p>
<p>The indictment does not specify what led federal investigators to Hale several years after the events in question took place. Indeed, the indictment deals exclusively with events that took place between 2013 and 2015, and Hale’s house had been raided in August 2014, from which some of the evidence cited in the indictment was likely acquired. However, the Obama administration never pressed charges and it is unclear why the Trump administration has waited until now to do so, or if investigators acquired new information on Hale’s whistleblowing activities relatively recently. Hale, who appeared in the 2016 documentary <a href="http://nationalbirdfilm.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>National Bird</em></a> about drone whistleblowers, had stated in that film that he anticipated being indicted at some point in time.</p>
<p>While the indictment suggests that the lack of secure communication with Scahill was a likely factor, there are other possibilities, such as the “friend” of Hale, noted in the indictment, with whom he discussed his relationship with Scahill.</p>
<p>Another possibility is that someone else at the <em>Intercept</em> other than Scahill was made aware of Hale’s identity, a point raised years ago by CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou and <a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/05/10/trump-continues-obamas-war-on-whistleblowers-arrests-another-alleged-intercept-source/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recently pointed out</a> by independent journalist Caitlin Johnstone. After it was revealed that the <em>Intercept </em> had obtained information from a whistleblower on drone warfare, which turned out to be Daniel Hale, in 2015, Kiriakou <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnKiriakou/status/654900351590641664" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>: “New drone whistleblower at <em>The Intercept</em>. For God’s sake don’t let Matthew Cole learn his identity.”</p>
<p>Cole, as will be noted later on in this report, has been accused by Kiriakou for outing him as a journalistic source to the federal government and, two years after Kiriakou’s tweet, was believed to have helped lead federal investigators to <em>Intercept</em> source Reality Winner in 2017. Thus, it is possible that Cole or another employee of the online publication had learned of Hale’s identity from Scahill and then passed it along, either intentionally or inadvertently, to the government.</p>
<p>Betsy Reed, editor-in-chief of the <em>Intercept</em>, said in <a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/05/09/statement-on-the-indictment-of-alleged-drone-strike-whistleblower/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a brief statement</a> that the publication “does not comment on matters relating to the identity of anonymous sources.”</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">New drone whistleblower at The Intercept. For God's sake don't let<span> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/matthewacole?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@matthewacole</a><span> </span>learn his identity.</p>
— John Kiriakou (@JohnKiriakou)<span> </span>October 16, 2015 Jesselyn Radack — Hale’s lawyer, who has represented several past whistleblowers, such as Thomas Drake and Kiriakou — stated on Twitter that “unsophisticated whistleblowers” like Hale, now 31 years old but who was only 23 when he met Scahill, should not have borne the burden of keeping his identity safe. Rather, Radack wrote, such a burden fell to the journalist – particularly those working at an outlet like the <em>Intercept</em> that promotes its source protection capabilities (now very much in doubt).</blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Burden should NOT be on unsophisticated<span> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/whistleblowers?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#whistleblowers</a><span> </span>to be safe. Journalists—esp those who claim to be *all about* source protection—must do so.<span> </span><a href="https://t.co/mOPvPmPJue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/mOPvPmPJue</a></p>
— unR̶A̶D̶A̶C̶K̶ted (@JesselynRadack)<span> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/JesselynRadack/status/1126574619492855813?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
<p>In a separate tweet to journalist Tim Shorrock, Radack called Hale’s case “an utter failure of source protection. Again.” In other words, Hale’s lawyer – who is privy to information not contained in the publicly available indictment – asserts that a large part of the blame for Hale’s arrest was attributable to the <em>Intercept</em>’s, and presumably Scahill’s, behavior and failure to protect their source. The other guilty party, of course, is the Trump administration’s continuation — if not intensification — of the Obama-era crackdown on whistleblowers and journalistic sources.</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">An utter failure of source protection. Again.</p>
— unR̶A̶D̶A̶C̶K̶ted (@JesselynRadack)<span> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/JesselynRadack/status/1126529379310407682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
<h2>THE INTERCEPT’S THREE-OF-A-KIND</h2>
<p>For readers who may be puzzled by Radack’s use of “again” in her tweet to Shorrock, it is worth revisiting the case of the two currently imprisoned <em>Intercept</em> sources – Reality Winner and Terry Albury – both of whose whistleblowing activities were made known to the government as a result of poor decisions by <em>Intercept </em>staff.</p>
<p><em>MintPress </em>reported on the acts by the online publication and noted that the <em>Intercept</em> made two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests in March 2016 for documents that the publication had <em>already </em>received from Albury — so the requests were an effort to “launder” or obfuscate the fact that the classified documents had been obtained from a whistleblower. Yet, both FOIA requests contained specific information identifying the names of the documents that were not publicly available, an error that led the FBI <a href="http://www.startribune.com/justice-dept-charges-minnesota-fbi-agent-for-leaking-secret-document-to-news-outlet/478203203/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to link</a> references contained in the requests to Albury’s activity on FBI information systems. The FBI subsequently found that documents that Albury had accessed had been later published by the <em>Intercept</em>.</p>
<p>Albury, a father of<a href="https://heavy.com/news/2018/10/terry-albury/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two young children</a>, is currently serving a four-year sentence for bringing important information about the FBI’s abuse of power in relation to its counter-terrorism activities and surveillance of journalists to the public. To date, no one at the <em>Intercept</em> was fired in connection with Albury’s prosecution, despite the role of the FOIA requests made by the <em>Intercept</em> in his arrest.</p>
<p>Nine months prior to Albury’s arrest, Reality Winner, a federal contractor, had been arrested for giving a classified document to the <em>Intercept</em>. While the <em>Intercept</em> has long maintained that it was unaware that Winner was the source of the document, FBI documents have shown that negligence helped lead federal investigators straight to Winner. The <em>Intercept</em>’s scanned images of the intelligence report that Winner leaked contained tracking dots – a type of watermark – that, according to Rob Graham of the Errata Security blog, <a href="https://blog.erratasec.com/2017/06/how-intercept-outed-reality-winner.html#.WTYvPOvyuUk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a> “exactly when and where documents, any document, is printed.” These dots make it easy to identify a printer’s serial number as well as the date and time a document was printed. As Graham noted, “Because the NSA logs all printing jobs on its printers, it can use this to match up precisely who printed the document.”</p>
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<p>Most concerning of all, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/971331/download" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the FBI warrant</a> also notes that the reporter in question – who is unnamed in the document – contacted a government contractor with whom he had a prior relationship and revealed where the documents had been postmarked from – Winner’s hometown of Augusta, Georgia – along with Winner’s work location. He also sent unedited images of the documents that contained the tracking dot security markings that allowed the documents to be traced to Winner. Jesselyn Radack as well as whistleblower John Kiriakou, who served two and a half years in prison for exposing the CIA’s illegal torture program, <a href="https://twitter.com/JesselynRadack/status/1023115034560552962" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have since asserted</a> that Matthew Cole was the journalist mentioned in this warrant. Well prior to being hired by the <em>Intercept</em>, Cole’s behavior was known to have been <a href="https://twitter.com/JesselynRadack/status/872073000945950720" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a key factor</a> that led to Kiriakou being outed as a confidential source, which led to his arrest. Upon learning of Hale’s arrest, Kiriakou <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnKiriakou/status/1126832188257972224" target="_blank" rel="noopener">openly speculated</a> upon whether the outlet was incomptent or compromised.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Serious question for The Intercept: Do you secretly work for the FBI? David Hale, Reality Winner and Terry Albury are all in prison because of you. Is it incompetence or are you compromised? You owe a lot of people an explanation. And an apology.</p>
— John Kiriakou (@JohnKiriakou)<span> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/JohnKiriakou/status/1126832188257972224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
<div class="entry-content"><p>Despite this track record, the <em>Intercept</em> hired Cole anyway. Cole continues to write for the <em>Intercept</em> and appears to have suffered no negative consequences for his alleged role in outing Winner. <em>Intercept</em> editor-in-chief Reed <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/07/11/first-look-to-support-defense-of-reality-winner-in-espionage-act-prosecution/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">took responsibility </a>for the acts on the part of the publication that led to Winner’s arrest and “for making sure that the internal newsroom issues that contributed to it are resolved.” Reed remains employed by the <em>Intercept</em> and continues to make a hefty six-figure salary. Winner is currently serving a five year and three month prison sentence for releasing a classified NSA document in relation to alleged Russian intrusion of a U.S. election software supplier.</p>
<p>Furthermore, journalist Barrett Brown — who served a lengthy 63-month prison sentence for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/22/barrett-brown-trial-warns-dangerous-precedent-hacking-sentencing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">linking</a> to hacked material — <a href="https://twitter.com/BarrettBrown_/status/1120046232033009664" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has recently stated</a> that <em>Intercept</em> journalist Sam Biddle played a role in his imprisonment, further worsening the optics of the publication’s track record. Brown originally faced a combined sentence of over 100 years in prison before negotiating a plea deal.</p>
<p>With Hale now the latest whistleblower to have been allegedly outed as a result of poor operational security by <em>Intercept</em> staff, the question turns to whether any of those responsible will be held accountable. Scahill, a celebrity reporter at the paper who makes <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/intercept-snowden-archive/256772/?comments-open=1">over $40,000 per article</a>, is just as unlikely as those involved in the outing of Albury and Winner to face any sort of negative consequences for failing to protect their sources, who risked (and have temporarily lost) their freedom to bring vital information to the public.</p>
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<h2>WILL OMIDYAR’S PULL KEEP SCAHILL OUT OF HOT WATER?</h2>
<p>While only an indictment against Hale has been made public, Scahill may soon find himself in trouble with the Department of Justice based on information contained in that indictment.</p>
<p>As <em>Moon of Alabama</em><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/05/us-government-indicts-another-intercept-source.html#more" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> noted</a> in an article detailing the charges against Hale:</p>
<blockquote><p>The first contacts with Hale and the first leaks by Hale were in the first half of 2013, when Hale was still enlisted and worked at the NSA. In July Hale emailed a resume to Scahill which he wanted to use to find a job with a defense contractor who leases people with security clearances to other U.S. agencies. They seem to have discussed the resume by phone. Hale was later hired by such a contractor and worked at the NGIA. There he copied the secret and top secret documents and presentations that seem to be the objects of Scahill’s later reporting. That Scahill discussed Hale’s resume with him could be construed as active help to gain access to secrets that would then be leaked to The Intercept.”</p>
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<p>Indeed, such a narrative is present within the indictment and Scahill may be pursued by the Trump Department of Justice, which has shown great zeal in prosecuting not only confidential government sources but also their publishers. Notably, the currently unsealed charges against <em>WikiLeaks</em> co-founder and Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange put forth a similar, though less compelling, narrative that Assange actively goaded Chelsea Manning into accessing state secrets that were subsequently given to <em>WikiLeaks.</em> Based on this alone, it seems likely that Scahill’s behavior as detailed in the indictment is likely to see the journalist pursued by the DOJ in some capacity, given the charges now facing Assange.</p>
<p>If this comes to pass, it will bode dark days for the future of American journalism that are already heralded by the indictment awaiting Julian Assange and the current imprisonment of Chelsea Manning for refusing to testify against Assange or <em>WikiLeaks</em>.</p>
<p>Yet, if Scahill evades any legal predicament on his end, it will raise many questions, most notably one of a double standard between his treatment and Assange’s treatment by the Trump DOJ, especially considering that both Scahill’s and Assange’s journalistic work has largely been unfavorable to government interests. Unlike Assange, Scahill’s publication and work are funded by eBay billionaire and the owner of PayPal, Pierre Omidyar, who is very well-connected to the <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/ebay-founder-pierre-omidyar-is-funding-a-global-media-information-war/255199/">public and private sector</a> as well as to <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/pierre-omidyar-funding-of-pro-regime-change-networks-and-partnerships-with-cia-cutouts/255337/">the U.S. intelligence community</a>. Omidyar’s past public statements show hostility towards whistleblowers, whom Omidyar had likened to <a href="https://twitter.com/pierre/status/2666071620" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“thieves”</a> prior to the <em>Intercept</em>’s founding.</p>
<p>If Scahill goes uncharged, it would likely be due to the intervention of powerful, politically-connected forces in the United States that are friendly towards Scahill, something Julian Assange lacks. Omidyar, given his ownership of the <em>Intercept</em>, would be the most probable person who could intervene successfully.</p>
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<h2>WHAT DID HALE’S WHISTLEBLOWING REVEAL?</h2>
<p>Based on the indictment, Hale is named as the source of several documents that revealed grave government wrong-doing, much of which related to the Obama administration’s expansion of the drone war and other counterterrorism programs with little or no oversight that have resulted in untold numbers of civilian deaths abroad.</p>
<p>One document noted in the indictment — “Document M,” which was classified as “secret” — appears in an article published in the <em>Intercept</em> in August 2014. That article <a href="https://theintercept.com/2014/08/05/watch-commander/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> that most of the people in the government’s secret terror suspect database had no affiliation with any terror group and that the system disproportionately targeted Arab-Americans.</p>
<p>In addition, Documents A-F in the indictment appear to have been used in the <em>Intercept</em>’s “<a href="https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Drone Papers” series</a>. Those documents revealed many stark truths and shocking facts about the Obama administration’s drone warfare campaign — which Trump has since <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/trumps-drone-kill-rate-80-times-greater-than-under-bush/237075/">significantly expanded</a> — including the fact that U.S. drones killed innocent people 90 percent of the time, victims who were subsequently labeled “enemy combatants” regardless of their actual status.</p>
<p>Hale’s motive for coming forward with this information is very compelling and shows him to have risked his personal freedom in order to change a corrupt system. Cited in <a href="https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-assassination-complex/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a 2015 article</a> by Scahill as “the source,” Scahill wrote that Hale “decided to provide these documents to <em>The Intercept</em> because he believes the public has a right to understand the process by which people are placed on kill lists and ultimately assassinated on orders from the highest echelons of the U.S. government.”</p>
<p>Hale <a href="https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-assassination-complex/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">had said</a> anonymously at the time:</p>
<blockquote><p>This outrageous explosion of watchlisting — of monitoring people and racking and stacking them on lists, assigning them numbers, assigning them ‘baseball cards,’ assigning them death sentences without notice, on a worldwide battlefield — it was, from the very first instance, wrong…We’re allowing this to happen. And by ‘we,’ I mean every American citizen who has access to this information now, but continues to do nothing about it.”</p>
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<p>To date, no one in the government has been held accountable for the killing of civilians in relation to the U.S. government’s covert drone assassination program.</p>
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<h2><em>THE INTERCEPT </em>MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE</h2>
<p>Daniel Hale, just like Terry Albury and Reality Winner, is a hero. He exposed government programs that were out of control and killing innocent people around the world. Hale’s bravery helped hold the powerful to account and now Hale faces 50 years in prison, thanks to both the Trump administration’s troubling effort to double down on the persecution of whistleblowers and would-be whistleblowers as well as the actions of an employee, and potentially <em>employees</em>, of the <em>Intercept</em>.</p>
<p>If the <em>Intercept</em> will not hold itself accountable, as has thus far been the case, then it must be held accountable in the court of public opinion. Its employees must be held to account, including its celebrity journalists, for the paper’s refusal to deal with its indefensible track record of burning sources who have placed their trust in it. Concerned citizens on social media should ask <em>Intercept</em> journalists and the publication’s own accounts why nothing has been done and should demand that something tangible be done now that no less than three brave Americans who trusted the <em>Intercept</em> have found out the hard way that their trust was misplaced.</p>
<p>The lives of Winner, Albury and now Hale have been destroyed, in large part by the acts of a single publication that <em>continues </em>to market itself as “safe” for whistleblowers. While the Trump administration’s continued persecution of whistleblowers is the clear root of the problem, the fct remains that a site that advertises itself as “adversarial” to the State’s interests and as a haven for whistleblowers has <em>aided </em>the Trump administration in its persecution of whistleblowers, regardless of whether its operational security failures were intentional or inadvertent. If the <em>Intercept</em> as an organization were really so concerned with the Trump administration’s crackdown on press freedom, there would be accountability — not impunity — in such cases.</p>
<p>Sadly, by all appearances, the only confidential <em>Intercept</em> source from the public sector who was not outed by the publication and subsequently arrested was the source that prompted its formation: Edward Snowden, who “outed” himself. However, the <em>Intercept</em> <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/intercept-snowden-archive/256772/?comments-open=1">closed its archive</a> of the Snowden documents in late March, citing “cost” factors, despite the fact that the archive was less than 2 percent of its budget and its celebrity journalists, Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill, <a href="https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/layoffs-the-intercept.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">make over $500,000 and $349,000</a>, respectively, leaving aside that the <em>Intercept</em>’s owner, Omidyar, is worth <a href="https://www.fruugoaustralia.com/the-racket-a-rogue-reporter-vs-the-masters-of-the-universe-hardcover-by-kennard-matt/p-11351515-23350892?ac=myshopping&language=en&utm_source=myshopping&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Books&utm_term=The+Racket+A+Rogue+Reporter+vs+the+Masters+of+the+Universe+Ha" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$12.7 billion</a>.</p>
<p>If the <em>Intercept</em> continues to remain unaccountable, its track record of poor operational security and lack of concern for the risks its sources have taken could lead to the destruction of other lives. It also aggravates the chilling effect that the government’s prosecution of journalistic sources has had on those in the public sector seeking to expose government wrong-doing by narrowing their options for coming forward. Indeed, if something had been done after Winner’s case, perhaps the whistleblowing activities of neither Albury or Hale would have been made known to the government.</p>
<p>The <em>Intercept</em> claims to “hold the powerful accountable,” but such an adage will ring forever hollow until it is applied internally to its own organization and to those in its ranks who put the Trump administration on the trail of these brave whistleblowers.</p>
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<p><em><strong>Whitney Webb</strong> is a MintPress News journalist based in Chile. She has contributed to several independent media outlets including Global Research, EcoWatch, the Ron Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others. She has made several radio and television appearances and is the 2019 winner of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism.</em></p>
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<h3>SHARE THIS ARTICLE...</h3> LEAD DEVELOPER OF HPV VACCINES COMES CLEAN, WARNS PARENTS & YOUNG GIRLS IT’S ALL A GIANT DEADLY SCAMtag:12160.info,2018-07-15:2649739:Topic:17970712018-07-15T02:43:13.457ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
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<p>Dr. Diane Harper was a leading expert responsible for the Phase II and Phase III safety and effectiveness studies which secured the approval of the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccines, Gardasil™ and Cervarix™. Dr. Harper also authored many of the published, scholarly papers about the vaccines. She is now the latest in a long string of experts who are pressing the red…</p>
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<p>Dr. Diane Harper was a leading expert responsible for the Phase II and Phase III safety and effectiveness studies which secured the approval of the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccines, Gardasil™ and Cervarix™. Dr. Harper also authored many of the published, scholarly papers about the vaccines. She is now the latest in a long string of experts who are pressing the red alert<span> </span><span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD10">button</span><span> </span>on the devastating consequences and irrelevancy of these vaccines. Dr. Harper made her surprising confession at the 4th International Converence on Vaccination which took place in Reston, Virginia. Her speech, which was originally intended to promote the benefits of the vaccines, took a 180-degree turn when she chose instead to clean her conscience about the deadly vaccines so she “could sleep at night”. The following is an <a href="http://southweb.org/lifewise/the-lead-vaccine-developer-comes-clean-so-she-can-sleep-at-night-gardasil-and-cervarix-dont-work-are-dangerous-and-werent-tested/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">excerpt from a story by Sarah Cain</a>:</p>
<p><em>“Dr. Harper explained in her presentation that the<span> </span><span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">cervical cancer</span><span> </span>risk in the U.S. is already extremely low, and that vaccinations are unlikely to have any effect upon the rate of cervical cancer in the<span> </span><span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5">United States</span>. In fact, 70% of all HPV infections resolve themselves without<span> </span><span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">treatment</span><span> </span>in a year, and the number rises to well over 90% in two years. Harper also mentioned the safety angle. All trials of the vaccines were done on children aged 15 and above, despite them currently being marketed for 9-year-olds. So far, 15,037 girls have reported adverse<span> </span><span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">side effects</span><span> </span>from Gardasil™ alone to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), and this number only reflects parents who underwent the hurdles required for reporting adverse reactions. At the time of writing, 44 girls are officially known to have died from these vaccines. The reported side effects include Guillian Barré Syndrome (paralysis lasting for years, or permanently — sometimes eventually causing suffocation), lupus, seizures, blood clots, and brain inflammation. Parents are usually not made aware of these risks. Dr. Harper, the vaccine developer, claimed that she was speaking out, so that she might finally be able to sleep at night. ’About eight in every ten women who have been sexually active will have HPV at some stage of their life,’ Harper says. ’Normally there are no<span> </span><span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">symptoms</span>, and in 98 per cent of cases it clears itself. But in those cases where it doesn’t, and isn’t treated, it can lead to pre-cancerous cells which may develop into cervical cancer.’” </em></p>
<p>Although these two vaccines are marketed as protection against cervical cancer, this claim is purely hypothetical. Studies have proven <em>“there is no demonstrated relationship between the condition being vaccinated for and the rare cancers that the vaccine might prevent, but it is marketed to do that nonetheless. In fact, there is no actual evidence that the vaccine can prevent any cancer. From the manufacturers own admissions, the vaccine only works on 4 strains out of 40 for a specific venereal disease that dies on its own in a relatively short period, so the chance of it actually helping an individual is about about the same as the chance of her being struck by a meteorite.”<br/></em></p>
<p><strong>UPDATE #1:</strong> Since coming forward with the truth about the devastating consequences of the HPV vaccine, Dr. Harper has been victim of a relentless campaign attempting to discredit the validity of her claims. Harper was even misquoted by British tabloid <em>The Sunday Express</em> which printed a false story loaded with fabricated quotations attributed to Harper. In an<span> </span><span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD9">interview</span><span> </span>with <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2009/oct/10/sundayexpress-express-newspapers" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The Guardian</em></a>, Harper makes it very clear about what exactly she said in order to protect herself from a potential lawsuit. <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gardasil-researcher-speaks-out/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In an interview with CBS NEWS</a>, Harper clarifies her position, and once again makes it crystal clear just how devastating this vaccine can be:<em> “If we vaccinate 11 year olds and the protection doesn’t last … we’ve put them at harm from side effects, small but real, for no benefit,”</em> says Dr. Harper. <em>“The benefit to public health is nothing, there is no reduction in<span> </span><span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">cervical cancers</span>, they are just postponed, unless the protection lasts for at least 15 years, and over 70% of all sexually active females of all ages are vaccinated.” </em>She also says that enough serious side effects have been reported after Gardasil use that the vaccine could prove riskier than the cervical cancer it purports to prevent. Cervical cancer is usually entirely curable when detected early through normal Pap<span> </span><span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD11">screenings</span>.</p>
<p><em>“The risks of serious adverse events including death reported after Gardasil use in (the JAMA<span> </span><span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">article</span><span> </span>by CDC’s Dr. Barbara Slade) were 3.4/100,000 doses distributed,”</em> Harper tells CBS NEWS. <em> ”The rate of serious adverse events on par with the death rate of cervical cancer. Gardasil has been associated with at least as many serious adverse events as there are deaths from cervical cancer developing each year. Indeed, the risks of vaccination are underreported in Slade’s article, as they are based on a denominator of doses distributed from Merck’s warehouse. Up to a third of those doses may be in<span> </span><span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD12">refrigerators</span><span> </span>waiting to be dispensed as the autumn onslaught of vaccine messages is sent home to parents the first day of school. Should the denominator in Dr. Slade’s work be adjusted to account for this, and then divided by three for the number of women who would receive all three doses, the incidence rate of serious adverse events increases up to five fold. How does a parent value that information,”</em> said Harper.</p>
<p><em>“Parents and women must know that deaths occurred,”</em> Harper tells CBS NEWS. <em>“Not all deaths that have been reported were represented in Dr. Slade’s work, one-third of the death reports were unavailable to the CDC, leaving the parents of the deceased teenagers in despair that the CDC is ignoring the very rare but real occurrences that need not have happened if parents were given information stating that there are real, but small risks of death surrounding the administration of Gardasil.”</em> She also worries that Merck’s aggressive marketing of the vaccine may have given women a false sense of security.<em> “The future expectations women hold because they have received free doses of Gardasil purchased by philanthropic foundations, by public health agencies or covered by insurance is the true threat to cervical cancer in the future. Should women stop Pap screening after vaccination, the cervical cancer rate will actually increase per year. Should women believe this is preventive for all cancers — something never stated, but often inferred by many in the population — a reduction in all health care will compound our current health crisis. Should Gardasil not be effective for more than 15 years, the most costly public health experiment in cancer control will have failed miserably.”</em> Harper notes that her concern for the vaccine’s deadly side effects applies only to women in the Western world. <em> ”Of course, in developing countries where there is no safety Pap screening for women repeatedly over their lifetimes, the risks of serious adverse events may be acceptable as the incidence rate of cervical cancer is five to 12 times higher than in the US, dwarfing the risk of death reported after Gardasil.”</em></p>
<p><strong>UPDATE #2: The National Vaccine Information Center<span> </span><a href="http://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/July-2012/merck-lawsuit-reignites-vaccine-safety-concerns.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HAS CONFIRMED</a><span> </span>two virologists, Stephen Krahling and Joan Wlochowski have filed a lawsuit against their former employer and vaccine manufacturer Merck. NVIC writes: “The lawsuit alleges that Merck defrauded the U.S. for over 10 years by overstating the MMR vaccine’s effectivenes. The virologists claim in their lawsuit that they ‘Witnessed firsthand the improper testing and data falseification in which Merck engaged to artificially inflate the vaccine’s efficacy findings.” NVIC president and co-founder, Barbara Loe Fisher, warns of the disturbingly cozy relationship and overwhelming conflict of interest between federal agencies charged with vaccine safety oversight (such as the Centers for Disease Control) and vaccine manufacturers. Merck’s global vaccine sales total more than $20 BILLION A YEAR.</strong></p>
<p>As the world’s pharmaceutical giants continue to be driven less by moral accountability and more by profit and shareholder-driven bottom lines, we are going to see more and more products such as this vaccine which are marketed as “essential to one’s survival.” While some vaccines are indeed essential, such as vaccines for polio and measles, the HPV vaccine is a new beast entirely. To learn more about how pharmaceutical giants are putting profits ahead of ethics you need to watch FRONTLINE’s terrifying new documentary <a href="http://www.feelguide.com/2013/10/24/frontline-doc-hunting-the-nightmare-bacteria-will-scare-you-shitless/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Hunting The Nightmare Bacteria.”</a></p>
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<p></p> EXCLUSIVE – NSA Whistleblower: Agency Has All of Clinton’s Deleted Emailstag:12160.info,2016-07-31:2649739:Topic:16314202016-07-31T18:24:14.984ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
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<div class="entry-content"><h2><strong>PHILADELPHIA – The National Security Agency (NSA) has “all” of Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails and the FBI could gain access to them if they so desired, William Binney, a former highly placed NSA official, declared in a radio interview broadcast on Sunday.</strong></h2>
<p>Speaking as an analyst, Binney raised the possibility that the hack of the Democratic National Committee’s server was done not by Russia but by a disgruntled U.S. intelligence worker concerned about Clinton’s compromise of national security secrets via her personal email use.</p>
<p>Binney was an architect of the NSA’s surveillance program. He became a famed whistleblower when he resigned on October 31, 2001, after spending more than 30 years with the agency.</p>
<p>He was speaking on this reporter’s Sunday radio program, “<a href="http://www.connectpal.com/aaronklein" target="_blank">Aaron Klein Investigative Radio</a>,” broadcast on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and Philadelphia’s NewsTalk 990 AM.</p>
<p>Binney referenced <a href="https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/testimony/oversight-of-the-federal-bureau-of-investigation-1" target="_blank">testimony</a> before the Senate Judiciary Committee in March 2011 by then-FBI Director Robert S. Mueller in which Meuller spoke of the FBI’s ability to access various secretive databases “to track down known and suspected terrorists.”</p>
<p>Stated Binney: “Now what he (Mueller) is talking about is going into the NSA database, which is shown of course in the (Edward) Snowden material released, which shows a direct access into the NSA database by the FBI and the CIA. Which there is no oversight of by the way. So that means that NSA and a number of agencies in the U.S. government also have those emails.”</p>
<p>“So if the FBI really wanted them they can go into that database and get them right now,” he stated of Clinton’s emails as well as DNC emails.</p>
<p>Asked point blank if he believed the NSA has copies of “all” of Clinton’s emails, including the deleted correspondence, Binney replied in the affirmative.</p>
<p>“Yes,” he responded. “That would be my point. They have them all and the FBI can get them right there.”</p>
<div><p>Binney surmised that the hack of the DNC could have been coordinated by someone inside the U.S. intelligence community angry over Clinton’s compromise of national security data with her email use.</p>
<p>And the other point is that Hillary, according to an <a href="http://observer.com/2016/03/hillary-has-an-nsa-problem/" target="_blank">article</a> published by the <em>Observer</em>in March of this year, has a problem with NSA because she compromised Gamma material. Now that is the most sensitive material at NSA. And so there were a number of NSA officials complaining to the press or to the people who wrote the article that she did that. She lifted the material that was in her emails directly out of Gamma reporting. That is a direct compromise of the most sensitive material at the NSA. So she’s got a real problem there. So there are many people who have problems with what she has done in the past. So I don’t necessarily look at the Russians as the only one(s) who got into those emails.</p>
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<p>GAMMA compartment, which is an NSA handling caveat that is applied to extraordinarily sensitive information (for instance, decrypted conversations between top foreign leadership, as this was).</p>
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<div class="article-content rich-text"><p>There's no playbook for leaking evidence of state and corporate wrongdoing. But with the <a href="http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/jan/10/jake-tapper/cnns-tapper-obama-has-used-espionage-act-more-all-/">uptick in whistleblower prosecutions</a> by the US government, there probably should be.</p>
<p>For now, studying past whistleblowers, from Daniel Ellsberg to Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, is a good place to start. Some whistleblowers, like former NSA senior executive Thomas Drake and former US Department of Justice ethics adviser Jesselyn Radack (now Snowden's lawyer), have shown themselves willing to offer instruction.</p>
<p>Drake and Radack, who appeared at the Berlin <a href="http://transmediale.de/">Transmediale festival's CAPTURE ALL</a>event to discuss the documentary <a href="http://nakededgefilms.com/films/silenced/"><em>Silenced</em></a>, spoke to me about the challenges facing future whistleblowers and journalists. While they didn't lay out a precise playbook, they did offer advice on how whistleblowers and journalists can better protect themselves.</p>
<p>For Radack, it starts with understanding the Espionage Act. While <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917">the 1917 law</a> was initially designed to protect against spies, not whistleblowers, the US government has taken to claiming that the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/06/obama-abuse-espionage-act-mccarthyism">leaking of classified information is equivalent of espionage</a>. Espionage Act prosecutions under President Obama, in Radack's estimation, have created a “backdoor war on journalists” and an “unofficial way to create an official secrets act,” which <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Secrets_Act_1989">exists in the United Kingdom</a> but not in the US. Educating whistleblowers and the journalists who work with them is of the utmost importance to Radack.</p>
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<p>“A lot of people come to me after they blow the whistle and are being retaliated against,” Radack said. “My advice would be seek a lawyer, get lawyered up, before you blow the whistle. Also, there are now encryption protocols [<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/aaron-swartz-inbox-for-whistleblowers-is-back-with-an-nsa-proof-makeover">like SecureDrop</a>] that let you blow the whistle in a much safer way.”</p>
<p>After being shrugged off by NSA superiors, <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/leaks-and-the-law-the-story-of-thomas-drake-14796786/?page=3&no-ist">Drake contacted the Baltimore Sun's Siobhan Gorman</a> in 2010, eventually blowing the whistle on the NSA's violations of Americans' electronic communications privacy with the Trailblazer project. And, back in 2002, <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/lindh-case-e-mails-146037">Radack revealed an FBI ethics violation</a> that occurred when John Walker Lindh—an American citizen captured in Afghanistan as an “enemy combatant”—was interrogated without a lawyer present.</p>
<p>Drake said he would have gone to the press a lot sooner instead of running into NSA stonewalling tactics. But he cautioned that publicizing state crime is no simple task for whistleblowers and journalists.</p>
<p>“It becomes absolutely crucial for the press and media, when they have a very sensitive source, that they must absolutely protect that source at all costs,” Drake said. “I know what mechanisms I went through. I actually had to instruct a particular reporter in how to even set up encryption, how to use encryption, and all of the means I had to use to protect the encryption I used.”</p>
<p>As Drake sees it, journalists still don't fully appreciate the extent of surveillance. "They're actually putting their sources in danger,” he said. “And, as we've seen in the United States, the government is more than willing to use incredibly heavy prosecution, up to and including the Espionage Act, to go after the sources for the very critical kinds of information the public needs to know.”</p>
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<p>The journalism community as a whole has placed more importance on of secure communications, especially following the Snowden leaks and increased emphasis in journalism schools. But Radack said many journalists still don't see the necessity of encryption.</p>
<p>“[T]here is a huge bloc of journalists that are resistant to it, and I think at that point it becomes incumbent upon people who would like to blow the whistle to say, 'I would like to tell you, but in order to keep me safe you need to use protection, and insist on it the way Edward Snowden did with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras,” Radack said. “He walked them through how to do encryption.”</p>
<p>“Should that ideally have to be the case that the burden is on the whistleblower?” Radack continued. “No, but if people don't want to get burned or caught, then again I think it would be in the journalist's advantage to learn how to use encryption, and good old-fashioned ways of reporting such as meeting in person, paying in cash, taking cryptic notes, and being careful not to do anything that could burden your source.”</p>
<p>The analog approach is often forgotten, and Drake emphasized the paradox of the current digital age: the very use of electronic communication leaves “digital prompts,” even if messages have been encrypted. When Drake ultimately decided to go to a reporter, he made direct contact.</p>
<p>“It turned out that at that point in time, given the kind of surveillance that I was under, it was safer to make physical contact even from the Watergate Era of meeting in the equivalent of a parking garage,” he said. But, establishing that first contact is problematic.</p>
<p>“It's <em>extremely</em> challenging—that's a whole conversation in itself that I lived over a number of months,” Drake said. “How do I make contact with a reporter who has no means of encryption and I do, and how do I make it so that reporter has no idea who I am? And this was before any of these things called SecureDrop or electronic dropboxes. This was before WikiLeaks.”</p>
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<p>“WikiLeaks is a model, by the way, in terms of how do you protect a source,” Drake added. “They have cut all kinds of precedent in this space that never existed before [in] recognizing those critical dangers. You can't just make direct contact, that's part of the problem. But, if you choose to do so, how do you? And, remember, a lot of stuff gets spammed, and maybe it's a false flag—this happens.”</p>
<p>Both Drake and Radack successfully fought government prosecution. Other whistleblowers haven't been so lucky, including CIA case officer Jeffrey Sterling, who was recently sentenced for <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2006/jan/05/energy.g2">leaking information on Operation Merlin</a>, an effort to delay development of Iran's nuclear reactor. Caught up in Sterling's case was New York Times reporter James Risen, who recently <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/13/us/times-reporter-james-risen-will-not-be-called-to-testify-in-leak-case-lawyers-say.html">concluded a seven-year legal</a> battle in a successful bid to avoid testifying about his source.</p>
<p>Drake pointed to Sterling's recent prosecution under the Espionage Act as a cautionary tale. The evidence linking Sterling to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Risen">Risen</a> was, Drake said, “totally circumstantial.”</p>
<p>“They never presented in the courtroom actual proof, real evidence, that the CIA employee Jeffrey Sterling ever actually provided the very things that the government alleged he did with the New York Times reporter James Risen,” Drake said. “It simply was metadata that there had been emails and phone calls between the two of them in a very short period of time—a designated period of time. That was apparently proof enough.”</p>
<p>“They tried to basically kabuki dance the venue in which the criminal act actually took place,” said Drake. “At one point they even argued, although that ended up as front page news, that the witness to the crime was the reporter; that's why they had to bring the reporter [Risen] into the courtroom.”</p>
<p>For some would-be whistleblowers and journalists this could be a cause for concern. But Drake and Radack believe the two forces are vital checks on legislative and executive power. Both recommend going to the press early, though methods might very from whistleblower to whistleblower.</p>
<p>Some may follow Snowden's lead and walk journalists through the encryption process. Others may choose to deal only with journalists comfortable with encrypted communication, or use SecureDrop and other whistleblower submission systems. Still others may adopt Drake's <em>All the President's Men </em>approach, with in-person first contact followed by encrypted messaging. In any case, it's clear that without secure channels, potential whistleblowers are likely to shy away from releasing leaks.</p>
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<p></p> War on Whistleblowers: 7 years after inaugurationtag:12160.info,2016-01-28:2649739:Topic:16090312016-01-28T02:03:35.260ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
<p><br></br><img alt="" height="279" src="https://act.rootsaction.org/images/jkandtd6.png" width="559"></img> <br></br><br></br><span>Just before Barack Obama moved into the White House, his official website promised to "</span><b>Protect Whistleblowers</b><span>" -- praising government employees who are "committed to public integrity and willing to speak out."</span><br></br><br></br><span>"</span><b>Such acts of courage and patriotism</b><span>, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, </span><b>should be encouraged rather than stifled</b><span>," the statement…</span></p>
<p><br/><img alt="" height="279" src="https://act.rootsaction.org/images/jkandtd6.png" width="559"/><br/><br/><span>Just before Barack Obama moved into the White House, his official website promised to "</span><b>Protect Whistleblowers</b><span>" -- praising government employees who are "committed to public integrity and willing to speak out."</span><br/><br/><span>"</span><b>Such acts of courage and patriotism</b><span>, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, </span><b>should be encouraged rather than stifled</b><span>," the statement added.</span><br/><br/><span>But since Obama's inauguration seven years ago, his administration </span><b>has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all other presidents combined</b><span> -- doing huge damage to civil liberties and the public's right to know.</span><br/><br/><br/><span>This campaign is co-chaired by two people with grim firsthand knowledge of the current war on whistleblowers.</span><br/><br/><span>NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou were </span><b>relentlessly prosecuted</b><span>by the Obama Justice Department, and </span><b>each paid a very heavy price</b><span>. </span><br/><br/><span>The Obama administration pursued multi-year vendettas that absurdly used the Espionage Act against those two brave whistleblowers. Thomas Drake endured years of ruthless investigation, harassment and prosecution before defeating the government in court. John Kiriakou spent two years in prison before being released last year.</span><br/><br/><b>The government was successful in completely wrecking the personal finances of both men and their families.</b><br/><br/><span>Last winter, while John Kiriakou was still in prison, a </span><i>Huffington Post</i><span> headline summed up: "The One Man Jailed for CIA Torture Tried to Expose It."</span><br/><br/><span>This week, the RootsAction Education Fund asked Thomas Drake and John Kiriakou for brief comments as we launch our 2016 campaign. Here’s what they said:</span><br/><br/><span>THOMAS DRAKE:</span><br/><span> </span><span> "The Fourth Amendment is the right to be left alone -- free of government interference or intrusion -- except when the government can show probable cause via affidavit for a particularized search and seizure when presented before a judge -- a very high bar to meet.<br/> "Anything else that breaches this Amendment clearly violates both the spirit and the letter of the supreme law of the land in the U.S. -- the Constitution.<br/> "I took an oath to support and defend that same Constitution four times in my government career -- once in the Air Force, at CIA, in the Navy and at NSA -- without any mental reservation, while showing true faith and allegiance to the same.<br/> "Warrantless mass surveillance violates the Constitution.<br/> "However, as the 'reward' for upholding the heart of the Constitution and disclosing mass surveillance, billions in fraud and 9/11 intel cover-up, I was turned into a criminal for exposing government conduct and activities violating that very same Constitution, and paid an extremely high price for doing so."</span><br/><br/><span>JOHN KIRIAKOU:</span><br/><span> </span><span> "The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits the federal government from imposing unduly harsh penalties on criminal defendants, either as the price for obtaining pretrial release or as punishment for crime after conviction.<br/> "But what about the punishments that aren't in writing, like solitary confinement? The United Nations has branded the use of solitary in American prisons as 'torture.' Who will stand up for those victims? Where are their Constitutional remedies? It's up to all of us to work to protect them. It's up to us to educate the public and to keep up the fight."</span></p>
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<p><span>Some references referred to in the interview:</span></p>
<p><span>Power Transition Model:</span> <a href="http://philosophyofmetrics.com/2014/02/18/sdrs-and-the-new-bretton-woods-part-six/comment-page-1/#comment-584" class="yt-uix-sessionlink">http://philosophyofmetrics.com/2014/02/18/sdrs-and-the-new-bretton-woods-part-six/comment-page-1/#comment-584</a> <span>StefaniaVitali, James B. Glattfelder, and Stefano Battiston: “The network of global corporate control“,</span></p>
<p><span>ETH Zurich:</span> <a href="http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1107/1107.5728v2.pdf" class="yt-uix-sessionlink">http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1107/1107.5728v2.pdf</a></p>
<p><span>YCT Foundation:</span> <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/khudes/yct.pdf" class="yt-uix-sessionlink">https://s3.amazonaws.com/khudes/yct.pdf</a> <span>Lars Schall:</span> <a href="http://www.larsschall.com/2013/05/08/governance-issues-at-the-world-bank-a-security-risk-to-the-world-order/" class="yt-uix-sessionlink">http://www.larsschall.com/2013/05/08/governance-issues-at-the-world-bank-a-security-risk-to-the-world-order/</a></p>
<p><span>Newsweek En Espanol:</span> <a href="http://www.newsweek.mx/index.php/articulo/10357#.U7s8h_mSzUU" class="yt-uix-sessionlink">http://www.newsweek.mx/index.php/articulo/10357#.U7s8h_mSzUU</a> <span>Edmund Druilhet's Clip for Banksters Madoff with America:</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-2Rfuq8NBU#t=527" class="yt-uix-sessionlink">THE BANKSTERS-SCENE WITH WHISTLE BLOWER Karen Hudes.</a></p>
<h2><a href="http://www.futuremoneytrends.com/trend-videos/interviews/whistleblower-dollar-system-karen-hudes-interview" target="_blank">Transcript - Karen Hudes Interviewed by Future Money Trends</a></h2> Pfizer Vice President Blows The Whistle & Tells The Truth About The Pharmaceutical Industrytag:12160.info,2015-07-08:2649739:Topic:15737602015-07-08T02:25:10.981ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
<p>Below is a clip taken from the “One More Girl” documentary, a film regarding the<a href="http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/01/25/mercks-former-doctor-predicts-gardasil-to-become-the-greatest-medical-scandal-of-all-time/" target="_blank">Gardasil</a> vaccine, which was designed to prevent Human Papillomavirus. In it, Dr. Peter Rost, MD, a former vice president of one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world (Pfizer), shares the truth about the ties between the medical and…</p>
<p>Below is a clip taken from the “One More Girl” documentary, a film regarding the<a href="http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/01/25/mercks-former-doctor-predicts-gardasil-to-become-the-greatest-medical-scandal-of-all-time/" target="_blank">Gardasil</a> vaccine, which was designed to prevent Human Papillomavirus. In it, Dr. Peter Rost, MD, a former vice president of one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world (Pfizer), shares the truth about the ties between the medical and pharmaceutical industry.</p>
<p>Rost is a former vice president of Pfizer, and a whistleblower of the entire pharmaceutical industry in general. He is the author of “<a href="http://www.amazon.ca/The-Whistleblower-Confessions-Healthcare-Hitman/dp/193336839X" target="_blank">The Whistleblower, Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman.</a>” Considering his work experience, it would be an understatement to say that he is an insider expert on big pharma marketing.</p>
<p>Below are a couple of quotes from both a former and a current editor-in-chief of the two largest, and what are considered to be the most credible, medical journals in the world. It’s only fitting to include them into the article as they are directly related to what Dr. Rost hints at in the video.</p>
<p><strong>“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.” – </strong>Dr. Marcia Angell, a physician and longtime editor-in-chief of the New England Medical Journal (NEMJ) (<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2964337/" target="_blank">source</a>)</p>
<p><strong>“The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness.” – </strong>Dr. Richard Horton, the current editor-in-chief of the Lancet – considered to be one of the most well respected peer-reviewed medical journals in the world. (<a href="http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736%2815%2960696-1.pdf" target="_blank">source</a>)</p>
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<h3>It’s Time To Re-Think Current Medical Research & See The Bigger Picture</h3>
<p>In 2005 Dr. <a href="https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/john-ioannidis">John P.A. Ioannidis</a>, currently a professor in disease prevention at Stanford University, published the most widely accessed article in the history of the Public Library of Science (PLoS) entitled <em><a href="http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124">Why Most Published Research Findings Are False</a>.</em> In the report he states:</p>
<p><strong>“There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false.”</strong></p>
<p>We now have a large amount of evidence, and statements from experts that come directly from the field, which paint a very concerning picture. The science used to educate doctors and develop medicine is flawed. We are only ever exposed to studies that have been sponsored by big pharmaceutical companies, but these studies are not designed to take the long view. They are not designed to detect problems that can occur years or even decades after a treatment, or examine the risks of taking a drug for long periods of time. Nobody ever seems to mention or acknowledge the many studies which clearly show significant risk associated with many of the products that pharmaceutical companies are manufacturing to help fight disease.</p>
<p>What is even more concerning is the general population’s lack of awareness when it comes to these facts. This issue is definitely not going to be addressed in the mainstream news, and despite plenty of evidence to support it, some people will refuse to even look at or acknowledge that it exists. This is a big problem, our world is changing and we must keep an open mind and be open to new possibilities regarding the nature of our world. It’s 2015, and as we keep moving forward there will be more information coming out that challenges the deeply held, engrained belief systems of many. It’s okay to look at information that goes against what you believe, in fact, it’s needed if we are going to move forward and create a better world for ourselves.</p>
<p>You would think the statements above the video, from longtime editors of such major, peer-reviewed scientific journals (apparently, the best in the world) would at least get some mainstream attention.</p>
<p>When Dr. Rost was still working for Pfizer he had a couple of appearances in the mainstream media.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05hoNczX1h8" target="_blank">Here </a>is an example of him speaking with the Wall Street Journal almost 10 years ago, before he blew the whistle.</p>
<p>This is why alternative media is important, especially in a time where more and more people are waking up to what is really happening on our planet.</p>
<p>It’s time to examine the research that’s being conducted all over the world, from experts (scientists) at various institutions, that is not sponsored by these giant, multinational “health” corporations – the independent literature. Brilliant work is being published regarding various drugs, cures, treatments, vaccines, and more.</p>
<p>Thanks for reading, and I hope the video above gives you something to think about.</p>
<p><a href="http://arjun%20walia/" target="_blank">Arjun Walia</a></p>