Whistleblowers Face Chilling Effects of Espionage Act and False Claims Act
Chip Gibbons, a whistleblower advocate, discussed the chilling effects of the Espionage Act and False Claims Act, which create strict liability crimes and lack public interest exceptions. John, a whistleblower advocate, called for law reform to make whistleblowing more encouraged, effective, and protected, noting the chilling impact of these laws.
The climate of fear and government targeting has deterred whistleblowers, making it increasingly difficult for them to come forward safely. Chip Gibbons, a whistleblower advocate, discussed the chilling effects of the Espionage Act and False Claims Act, which create strict liability crimes and public interest exceptions.
John, a whistleblower advocate, expressed optimism about the political system and courts, acknowledging their disappointing stance on whistleblowing. He called for law reform to make whistleblowing more encouraged, effective, and protected, noting the chilling effect of the Espionage Act and the need for public demand and legal reform.
The climate of fear and government targeting has deterred whistleblowers, making it increasingly difficult for them to come forward safely. Chip Gibbons, a whistleblower advocate, discussed the chilling effects of the Espionage Act and False Claims Act, which create strict liability crimes and public interest exceptions.
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The climate of fear and government targeting has deterred whistleblowers, making it increasingly difficult for them to come forward safely.
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Chip Gibbons, a whistleblower advocate, discussed the chilling effects of the Espionage Act and False Claims Act, which create strict liability crimes and public interest exceptions.
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There's no public interest exceptions. So you can't say, well, my defense is that I didn't do this to harm national security or to harm the United States. I did it for the public good or I did it to expose on lawful behavior. That doesn't matter.
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It's a strict liability crime. And he used to drive me crazy when for the year where Snowden was in Russian.
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You can't say, well, my defense is that I didn't do this to harm national security or to harm the United States. I did it for the public good or I did it to expose on lawful behavior. That doesn't matter.
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It's our friend right here. Where is he? Yeah, there he is, Chip Gibbons.
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It's typically mid-level of a people who expose things they don't want to expose.
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But in reality, how do you ask the people who most want to have the power to, it's an incredible power, right, to say, it's illegal to disclose what I've done. Just put a stand on it.
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I do have some faith in the courts, but as I said before, they're, I find them very disappointing on this issue.
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And it's not like we disclosed the methods that they were, we wouldn't disclose the handbook of how the spying was done, say on al-Qaeda, we exposed the programs and what their aspirations and what the impact was, but nonetheless, if he comes back to the United States, he will be immediately arrested under the Espionage Act with the allegation that he harb now to security, even though no real case, plausible case could even be made, and I guess that's the point, right? Yes.
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The people who execute the laws, who make the laws, are exactly the people who have been engaged in all the abuses that we're talking about.
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John, a whistleblower advocate, expressed optimism about the political system and courts, acknowledging their disappointing stance on whistleblowing.
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He called for law reform to make whistleblowing more encouraged, effective, and protected, noting the chilling effect of the Espionage Act and the need for public demand and legal reform.
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They don't like this police state that we've given ourselves. They don't like the Patriot Act. They're appalled when you tell them about the Espionage Act.
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Chip Gibbons wrote what would be a new version of the S.B. and Ajax act that tightens up exactly that loose language that you were referring to, and that would allow for an affirmative defense.
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They just seem to be more desirous of information than the two generations before them.
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Glenn Greenwald
