One of my favorite pictures of me
Eat me
You might not believe this, but those stereotypes about Native americans being savages are only present in America, please realize that you should...
Me on the left, and my mom on the right. Close to same age in these photos.
The No-Pants Kitchen: Say hello to your healthy new snack
Roasted chickpeas are a ridiculously healthy, easy snack with endless possibilities....
On Saturday the 10th of March 2012, Matthew Miller, the ex-Director of the Office of Public Affairs for the Justice Department and Attorney General Holder’s former spokesperson, posted an article on the Daily Beast asserting that the Obama Administration is right to go after ‘leakers’ who are not whistleblowers.
The difference between a leaker and a whistle-blower is important. Leaks of classified information can endanger American soldiers and intelligence officers and expose sensitive national-security programs to our enemies. Whistle-blowers expose violations of law, abuse of authority, or a substantial and specific threat to public health or safety.I agree that the difference is important. As the former NSA senior executive who blew the whistle on massive fraud, waste, abuse and illegalities at NSA, I find Miller’s statement eerily Orwellian in its duplicity, doublespeak and deceit regarding the truth of the matter. But exposing violations of law and abuse of authority put me (and several other whistleblowers) in the cross hairs of a multi-year, multi-million dollar ”leak’ investigation that led to a 10 felony count criminal indictment issued against me.
The government even tried to eliminate as admissible or relevant in my case anything related to my whistleblowing before the Court.
During the pendency of my trial, before the government’s Espionage Act case against me collapsed in spectacular fashion and all 10 felony counts were dropped - the chief prosecutor, William Welch, even publicly stated for the record that my alleged activity had endangered the lives of soldiers. Nothing could be further from the truth.
And I find the omission of any reference to my case by Miller in his article quite revealing.
Now why would the FDA do this to their own employees and fire them unless they had something to hide?