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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-24-06 10:34 AM
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Whistleblower Bill: A load of bollocks?
Bogus Whistleblower Bill
Submitted by davidswanson on Sat, 2006-06-24 01:42. Congress
By Sibel Edmonds

In the next few days you'll be reading or hearing about a 'Fantastic Whistleblower Bill' sponsored by Senator Collins (Senate Homeland Security Committee). The senate & some organizations will represent this bill as a solution to whistleblowers. That is not True. Here is why:

1- Intelligence & Law enforcement agencies are all exempt from this bill. Meaning: the so-called protection does Not apply to us.

2- They sneaked in this paragraph to legalize/legitimize retaliation against any government employee who goes to congress (Please see the link below for more information).

3- The bill does not address the broken system: OSC, IG, MSPB...

4- The bill does not address secrecy, gag orders, and various privileges that can be invoked/applied by the executive branch against whistleblowers in courts.

The rest of the article is at: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/12298


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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-24-06 10:42 AM
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1. duh, what else--They're not going to vote for their own funerals
what a farce--the Accountability Party my ass.
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IntravenousDemilo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-24-06 11:02 AM
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2. I thought "Whistleblower Bill" was a cartoon train engineer or something.
What's that train comin' over the hill?
Toot toot toot, it's Whistleblower Bill!
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