"So speaking truth to power is now a criminal act"

[dixiegrrrrl]

Methinks we are gonna want to see this when it comes out.

[snappyturtle]

1. Here's a bit more from Mother Jones:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/war-whistleblowers

snip....

"We've never had a president more supportive of federal workers who blow the whistle—except when it comes to national security," Angela Canterbury, director of public policy at the Project On Government Oversight, where I used to work, tells Mother Jones. National security and intelligence employees were left out of the WPEA, and even though the president issued a policy directive extending protections to these employees, Canterbury says that the directive has inherent problems. For one thing, it protects only whistleblowers who report wrongdoing internally—which can be self-defeating when your employer is behind the wrongdoing. Tom Devine, legal director at the Government Accountability Project, also notes that Obama is seeking new rules that would allow the government to fire thousands of employees without appeal if they work in the national-security arena. "We've warned the White House many times, if you put whistleblowers in jail your legacy will be defined for prosecuting them for exercising free speech rights," says Devine.

...+ 3 min.video

[unapatriciated]

2. K&R

Methinks you are correct.
Robert Greenwald has done some really good documentaries.
OutFoxed

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. thanks for adding those titles...they are indeed worth seeing.

[unapatriciated]

8. Your Welcome

Greenwald released the two in my post through house parties. We held parties for both of them. Outfoxed opened a few eyes in my family at the time.

[newblewtoo]

3. Call me paranoid

but I can't help wonder about the timing of this. It certainly could be a coincidence and I do have the munchies. I would say both the movie and the timing of its release bear watching.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Well, since this is a movie trailer, it means the movie was made some months ago

and then had to go thru weeks , usually, of post-production, then the trailer came out....

[cui bono]

6. I saw this at a screening a couple weeks ago.

It's got really good info in it. Concentrates on 3-4 people who decided to stand up for what's right and then had to feel the wrath. Felt really bad for this one lawyer whose life was really ruined by actions taken against him when he was doing the right thing. Iirc he worked at NSA, he went public and now he's working on his own as a lawyer trying to get his life back, but he's struggling.

[DeSwiss]

7. K&R