Wednesday, February 8, 2012

This Blows

Peter Van Buren, long-time State Department employee and author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the War for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, talks about whistleblowers and the increasing measures the US government is taking to silence them.

Download mp3 at www.archive.org

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

There should be a US civilian award, comparable to the military Medal of Honor, for very brave people like Peter Van Buren. When you realize that there are hundreds of thousands of people working for the government and how few people ever blow the whistle we should express our sincere gratitude in a very public way.

Anonymous said...

I agree. But the word whistleblower brings a negative perception and has no impact unless all the harm to and destruction of whblwrs is brought together along withhow they exposed corruption. A no fear award would do it because thats what you need to be a whstlblwr in this country.

Anonymous said...

I wish the RSS feed worked. :-(

Anonymous said...

Couldn't the treatment of whistleblowers be considered "tyrannical"? I believe it is tyrannical when the state wields enough power to destroy your life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. So, at what point do the people reclaim the tyrannical government? I think that answer is coming.