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Give Snowden A Trial … But An Honest One
Edward Snowden admits he broke the law by leaking secret documents to journalists but says the system left him no other choice. As John Crane, a former senior Pentagon official, reveals in my new book, Bravehearts, his colleagues too often persecute the very whistle blowers they are supposed to protect. I argue in The New York Times that Snowden should be allowed to make this argument in court, which current US law forbids:… Read more
Snowden Did “A Public Service,” Says Former Obama Attorney General
Maybe Edward Snowden did the right thing after all? Or so implies Eric Holder, the Obama administration’s former Attorney General, in calling Snowden’s whistle blowing “a public service.” But Holder, like Obama and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, still claims Snowden should have raised his concerns through official channels instead. Read the following articlein The Nation, adapted from my new book, Bravehearts: Whistle Blowing in the Age of Snowden, to see why such advice is disingenuous at best:… Read more
Worldwide Scoop: Why Snowden Did It
Extracted from my new book, Bravehearts, the scoop reveals a secret new chapter in the Edward Snowden story–so secret, even Snowden didn’t know about it. John Crane, a former senior Pentagon official, comes forward publicly for the first time to reveal how his superiors broke the law to silence whistle blowers’ testimonies and ruin their lives. Snowden drew the logical conclusion: he had to go outside the system. Read this extract from Bravehearts, in the Guardian…. Read more
New York AG Wants To Know: Did ExxonMobil Lie To Investors?
Pity the poor fossil fuel industry! New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman warns ExxonMobil and its industry brethren that “dramatic changes” are ahead in a Nation interview where he discusses the need to pursue both “transactional” and “transformational” politics:… Read more
How GOP Climate Deniers Weakened Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement doubtless would have been much stronger if the US delegation didn’t have to avoid items that would have qualified the agreement as a “treaty” that a Republican-dominated Senate surely would have killed:… Read more
Scientists Warn Paris Text Needs Massive Improvement
An international all-star panel of climate scientists expressed alarm at the emerging Paris Agreement, saying that massive improvements were needed in the remaining 24 hours to give humanity a chance of avoiding a dire future:… Read more
Latest Book
By now, almost everyone knows what Edward Snowden did: leak top secret documents revealing that the US government was spying on hundreds of millions of people around the world. But if you want to know why Snowden did it, the way he did it, you need to know the stories of two other men.
The first is Thomas Drake, who blew the whistle on the very same surveillance ten years before Snowden did and got crushed. The other is The Third Man, a former senior Pentagon official who comes forward in this book for the first time to describe how his superiors repeatedly broke the law to punish Drake—and unwittingly taught Snowden how to evade their clutches.
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