Last week, whistleblower Chelsea Manning—currently serving 35 years in Fort Leavenworth military prison—was facing indefinite solitary confinement for possession of expired toothpaste and contraband books and magazines, notably Vanity Fair’s Caitlyn Jenner issue. Manning was convicted of all charges Tuesday, her…
NSA leaker Edward Snowden's mammoth whistleblowing trove is still being worked through, two years after it was first leaked. Now, Al Jazeera and The Guardian are offering another blockbuster cache—"The Spy Cables."
Edward is a single, eligible guy, just looking for love on Tinder. He's handy with technology, enjoys traveling to exotic locales—he's in Moscow right now, actually—and he's got a great positive attitude. Is it any surprise that ladies on the dating site love him (whether they know who he is or not)?
Julian Assange appeared, as we told you before, by Skype at SXSW over the weekend. Set against a green-screened Wikileaks logo, wearing a scarf straight from the Doctor Who wardrobe department and an actually respectable showing of facial hair, he gave his usual kind of speech. That's to say, one grounded in a lot of…
According to a new whistleblower lawsuit, lab technicians at the Kings County Hospital Center have repeatedly incorrectly told healthy people that they were HIV-positive and told some people who had tested positive for Hepatitis C that they were healthy.
Celebrate the International Press Freedom Awards next week at a ceremony chaired by Bloomberg CEO Daniel Doctoroff, whose news organization reportedly spiked a major investigation into the finances of the Chinese oligarchy and suspended a reporter suspected of complaining about it, for fear of offending China's rulers.
The four-story brownstone at 141 East 37th Street in Manhattan has no remarkable features: a plain building on a quiet tree-lined street in the shadow of the Empire State Building. In the summer of 1920, Herbert O. Yardley, a government codebreaker, moved in with a gang of math geniuses and began deciphering…
"I vaguely hoped that one day, someone would say something. I just didn't want that person to be me. That bar was too high for my moral courage to clear." A former soldier's brutally frank reflections on Bradley Manning and the pathology of conscience.
Daniel Ellsberg, the man who gave the Pentagon Papers to the press in 1971, was the most famous government leaker before Edward Snowden. Today, Ellsberg says that Snowden was right to flee America. No shit!
Edward Snowden is not the first NSA whistleblowers. A small group of others came before him. USA Today got them together, and their conversation is terrifying.
Daniel Ellsberg attended Harvard and Cambridge, became a decorated Marine and Pentagon analyst—and then, at 38, produced the greatest document leak in American history. He cited unjust warfare and official lies. Edward Snowden dropped out of high school and produced perhaps the second greatest leak at 29. He cited…
Last March, Goldman Sachs VP Greg Smith quit his job in spectacular fashion—with a New York Times op-ed decrying the erosion of the firm's moral culture into a "toxic and destructive" state. Now, Greg Smith has a book coming out. He was on 60 Minutes last night. He has become, in mere months, the world's most famous…
The most recent article from The Nation's Jeremy Scahill profiled the imprisonment of Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye. For covering American cluster bomb strikes in Yemen and the radicalization of Yemeni citizens and their support for Al Qaeda, Shaye has been beaten and tortured, imprisoned for two years and,…
The Securities and Exchange Commission has set up a huge new $452 million fund for whistleblowers in the finance industry. As the saying goes: If you see something (or your shady co-workers doing something) say something! You could get paid.
Aleksei Dymovsky was an average 32 year-old cop in Novorossiysk, Russia. Sick of the endemic corruption on the police force, he sat down and made a simple Youtube video of himself talking about the problem. How'd that work out?
Shame on you, Russia. In America, we only treat foreigners this poorly.
The Wall Street Journal wrote frequently about how the SEC ignored Harry Markopolos' warnings about Bernie Madoff. It slammed the agency for investigating "without much energy." Left unsaid: the Journal was itself apathetic.
Crazy old Courtney Love continues to regale the internet with her drunken ramblings. This time the rock and/or roller rants at length, on a CitySearch page no less, about how New York accounting firm Altman, Greenfield, & Selvaggi has bilked her out of some money. "my forensic pyschiatrist looked at herbooks and…
This week, New York Times Dining section editor Pete Wells is being forced to answer the questions of Times readers in Talk of the Newsroom. Wells—a relative newbie to the paper, as he arrived from Details in October, 2006—apparently hasn't learned about the Times' code of omerta. In response to a reader's inquiry as…
