September 23, 2008

Transparency coast to coast

This past weekend I was in Baltimore at a national open government retreat working on recommendations for the next President on how to make the federal government more transparent and accountable.

Among the 70 individuals at the retreat were representatives from OMB Watch, National Security Archive, ACLU, Society of Professional Journalists, OpenTheGovernment.org, League of Women Voters and Reporter’s Committee for Freedom of the Press to name a few.

Thanks to Tom Devine & Adam Miles from GAP for producing the following response to the Bush Administration's SAP against protecting whistle-blowers thru bi-partisan legislation

Well, the Mainstream 'American' Media (MSM) may not be interested in the case of Sibel Edmonds, former FBI whistle-blower but its looks the the FBI is after the Sunday Times of London ran a few articles about her case.  Unfortuantely, they are not interested in her case per se just the fact that the Sunday Times ran their stories.

Glenn Greenwald has done an incredible job at his blog and salon radio  in investigating the anthrax investigation.  It is a shame that the FBI and mainstream media cannot be trusted to deal honestly with the American people when it comes to such important issues as life and death and war and peace.  As Glenn says