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National Security Whistleblowers
Worldview presents a week of shows on National Security Whistleblowers, the people who blow the whistle on waste, fraud and criminal abuse in the executive branch. Unlike other federal employees, normal legal protections can be waived in the interests of secrecy. We explore the legal hurdles they face and try to find out how U.S. foreign policy has been shaped by the treatment of whistleblowers who expose wrongdoing inside military and intelligence agencies.
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State Secrets and the Terrorist Watch List  
Akif Rahman — Founder and President, Hambra Consulting; Plaintiff in civil rights lawsuit against U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Harvey Grossman — Attorney, ACLU; Attorney representing Akif Rahman in civil rights lawsuit

-Read the Class Action Complaint by Mr. Rahman and other plaintiffs
Blowing the Whistle on Abu Ghraib  
Samuel Provance — Sergeant, Alpha Company, 302nd Military Intelligence Battalion, US Army (retired)

-Read Sgt. Provance's Prepared Testimony detailing his time at Abu Ghraib

This is an extended, web-version of the interview
Legal Protections for National Security Whistleblowers  
Stephen Kohn — Executive Director, National Whistleblowers Center; Former Attorney for Sibel Edmonds
Arguing a State Secrets Case in Court  
Mark Zaid — Represented Sibel Edmonds in federal court; Founder, James Madison Project
Sibel Edmonds: Part 2  
Sibel Edmonds — FBI Whistleblower, Founder, National Security Whistleblower Coalition

Related Links:
-Redacted Inspector General's Report (A Must Read! .pdf format)
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Unclassified Summary of Inspector General's Report
-Sibel Edmonds State Secret Gallery (from Sibel's Website)
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State Secrets Protection Act
-Collection of Documents on the Sibel Edmonds Case (from POGO)
Why Investigate the Sibel Edmonds Case?  
Phil Giraldi — Former CIA Officer Stationed in Turkey, Author, Found in Translation (in the American Conservative magazine)
Sunday Times Cracks the Sibel Edmonds Story  
Joe Lauria — Freelance Journalist, Co-Author with Mike Gravel, A Political Odyssey
Sibel Edmonds: Part 1  
Sibel Edmonds — FBI Whistleblower, Founder, National Security Whistleblower Coalition

-Read the Full DoJ Inspector General's Report (Extensively Redacted .pdf file)
Turning a Blind Eye on the Nuclear Black Market  

David Armstrong — Bureau Chief, National Security News Service; Co-author, America and the Islamic Bomb: The Deadly Compromise”

Joseph Trento—President, Public Education Center; Co-author, America and the Islamic Bomb: The Deadly Compromise”

Blowing the Whistle on A.Q. Khan  
Richard Barlow – Former Intelligence Analyst, CIA and Department of Defense

-See a Collection of Documents about Richard Barlow's Case (from POGO)
What are National Security Whistleblowers?  
William Weaver — Director of the Center for Law and Border Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso and he’s Senior Advisor for the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition
What is State Secrets Privilege?  
Jonathan Turley — Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law, George Washington University

-Selected Documents on State Secrets Privilege (from the Federation of American Scientists)
Top Secret Clearances and Classification  
Steven Aftergood— Director, Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists; Author, Secrecy News

-Read a Classified Information Non-Disclosure Agreement [pdf]
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