Edward Snowden: Clinton Made 'False Claim' About Whistleblower Protection
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Posted on Oct 17, 2015
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Carolyn
Kaster / AP)
Edward Snowden accused Hillary Clinton of "a lack of political courage" for
asserting during the Democratic presidential debate that he had bypassed
options for disclosing illegal government spying programs that would have
granted him whistleblower protections against retaliation from superiors.
The Guardian reports:
Speaking via satellite at a privacy conference at New York's Bard College on
Friday, Snowden said: "Hillary Clinton's claims are false here."
"This is important, right?" Snowden told an audience at the Hannah Arendt
Center at Bard College. "Truth should matter in politics, and courage should
matter in politics, because we need change. Everyone knows we need change.
And we have been aggrieved and in many ways misled by political leaders in
the past."
Before Snowden spoke, Clinton repeated the claim on Friday, at a campaign
appearance in New Hampshire. After a voter said Snowden was "close to a
patriot," BuzzFeed reported, Clinton disagreed and said he could have
received whistleblower protections but instead chose to break the law.
"He broke the laws of the United States," Clinton said at the debate on
Tuesday. "He could have been a whistleblower. He could have gotten all of
the protections of being a whistleblower. He could have raised all the
issues that he has raised. And I think there would have been a positive
response to that."
Multiple passes at fact-checking Clinton's claim this week have concluded
that "the protections of being a whistleblower" do not exist in the real
world and did not apply to Snowden. A 1989 whistleblower law, for example,
does not apply to intelligence community employees. A separate law for
would-be intelligence whistleblowers has been deemed a trap because it has
led not to protections but to prosecutions.
Read more here.
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Edward Snowden: Clinton Made 'False Claim' About Whistleblower Protection
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/edward_snowden_clinton_made_fals
e_claim_about_whistleblower_protection_2015/
Posted on Oct 17, 2015
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Carolyn Kaster /
AP)
Edward Snowden accused Hillary Clinton of "a lack of political courage" for
asserting during the Democratic presidential debate that he had bypassed
options for disclosing illegal government spying programs that would have
granted him whistleblower protections against retaliation from superiors.
The Guardian reports:
Speaking via satellite at a privacy conference at New York's Bard College on
Friday, Snowden said: "Hillary Clinton's claims are false here."
"This is important, right?" Snowden told an audience at the Hannah Arendt
Center at Bard College. "Truth should matter in politics, and courage should
matter in politics, because we need change. Everyone knows we need change.
And we have been aggrieved and in many ways misled by political leaders in
the past."
Before Snowden spoke, Clinton repeated the claim on Friday, at a campaign
appearance in New Hampshire. After a voter said Snowden was "close to a
patriot," BuzzFeed reported, Clinton disagreed and said he could have
received whistleblower protections but instead chose to break the law.
"He broke the laws of the United States," Clinton said at the debate on
Tuesday. "He could have been a whistleblower. He could have gotten all of
the protections of being a whistleblower. He could have raised all the
issues that he has raised. And I think there would have been a positive
response to that."
Multiple passes at fact-checking Clinton's claim this week have concluded
that "the protections of being a whistleblower" do not exist in the real
world and did not apply to Snowden. A 1989 whistleblower law, for example,
does not apply to intelligence community employees. A separate law for
would-be intelligence whistleblowers has been deemed a trap because it has
led not to protections but to prosecutions.
Read more here.
-Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.
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