President signs whistle-blower bill for US workers

[Calamari]

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/presi...ill-us-workers

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama signed legislation Tuesday that affords greater protection to federal employees who expose fraud, waste and abuse in government operations.

Capping a 13-year effort by supporters of whistle-blower rights, the new law closes loopholes created by court rulings, which removed protections for federal whistle-blowers. One loophole specified that whistle-blowers were only protected when they were the first to report misconduct.

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The whistle-blower law makes it easier to punish supervisors who try to retaliate against the government workers.

[flyboy56]

Does this bill cover his own administration?

[SemiAuto]

President Obama, however, has waged the most aggressive and vindictive assault on whistleblowers of any president in American history, as even political magazines generally supportive of him have recognized and condemned. One might think that, as the party's faithful gather to celebrate the greatness of this leader, this fact would be a minor problem, a source of some tension between Obama and his hardest-core supporters, perhaps even some embarrassment. One would be wrong.

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It's okay if a Democrat does it.

[Calamari]

Wait, commondreams? Is this the same Semi who gets all upset if you use Daily KOS as a source?

Bradley Manning was not a "whistleblower."

[Phineas Finn]

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It's okay if a Democrat does it.

If the charges made in the opening paragraphs of the linked op-ed are even remotely true, I'd like to see actual evidence of the "rentless campaign."

[SemiAuto]

If the charges made in the opening paragraphs of the linked op-ed are even remotely true, I'd like to see actual evidence of the "rentless campaign."

Links are in the second paragraph.

The Obama administration's disturbing treatment of whistleblowers.

Obama's War on Whistleblowers.