A new war to keep everything secret

Goodman Green, Brasscheck TV

4/15/2012

Whistleblowing, or exposing government misconduct, is the at very heart of the First Amendment.

As Kennedy said, “The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society…”

During his 2008 Presidential campaign Obama expressed the need to enact better whistleblower protections and even claimed that he was preparing a federal law to protect those who disclose suspect practices.

That’s not what we got.

Instead, we got a war on whistleblowers, war on journalists…