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<blockquote data-quote="Samstwitch" data-source="post: 72382" data-attributes="member: 2770"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 22px"><a href="http://www.infowars.com/obama-promises-including-whistleblower-protections-disappear-from-website/" target="_blank">Obama Promises, Including Whistleblower Protections, Disappear From Website</a></span></strong></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc"><strong>Luke Johnson</strong></span></p><p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/26/obama-whistleblower-website_n_3658815.html?1374857923" target="_blank">The Huffington Post </a></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">July 27, 2013</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">Amid the Obama</span> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/obama-whistleblower-prosecutions-press_n_3091137.html" target="_blank">administration’s crackdown against</a> <span style="color: #ccffcc">whistleblowers, Change.gov, the 2008 website of the Obama transition team laying out the candidate’s promises, has disappeared from the internet.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">The </span><a href="http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/07/25/obama-promises-disappear-from-web/" target="_blank">Sunlight Foundation notes</a> <span style="color: #ccffcc">that it last could be viewed on June 8, which was</span> <a href="http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/07/25/candidate-obamas-tribute-to-courage-and-patriotism-of-whistleblowers-disappears-2-days-after-first-snowden-revelations/" target="_blank">two days after the first revelations</a> <span style="color: #ccffcc">from Edward Snowden (who had then not yet revealed himself) about the NSA’s phone surveillance program. One of the promises Obama made on the website was on “whistleblower protections:”</span></p><p> </p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ccffcc">Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance. Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government. Obama will ensure that federal agencies expedite the process for reviewing whistleblower claims and whistleblowers have full access to courts and due process.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">The White House did not respond to multiple requests for comment on why the page was deleted. The site had offered a way to compare Obama’s promises and administration actions and still can be viewed</span> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130425082834/http://change.gov/agenda/ethics_agenda/" target="_blank">on the Wayback archive.</a></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">The page has long had a link to whitehouse.gov along with a note saying that “the transition has ended and the new administration has begun;” however, the website’s pages have recently become inaccessible from the site.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/26/obama-whistleblower-website_n_3658815.html?1374857923" target="_blank"><strong>Full article here</strong></a></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Samstwitch, post: 72382, member: 2770"] [B][SIZE=6][URL='http://www.infowars.com/obama-promises-including-whistleblower-protections-disappear-from-website/']Obama Promises, Including Whistleblower Protections, Disappear From Website[/URL][/SIZE][/B] [COLOR=#ccffcc][B]Luke Johnson[/B][/COLOR] [URL='http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/26/obama-whistleblower-website_n_3658815.html?1374857923']The Huffington Post [/URL] [COLOR=#ccffcc]July 27, 2013[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]Amid the Obama[/COLOR] [URL='http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/obama-whistleblower-prosecutions-press_n_3091137.html']administration’s crackdown against[/URL] [COLOR=#ccffcc]whistleblowers, Change.gov, the 2008 website of the Obama transition team laying out the candidate’s promises, has disappeared from the internet.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]The [/COLOR][URL='http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/07/25/obama-promises-disappear-from-web/']Sunlight Foundation notes[/URL] [COLOR=#ccffcc]that it last could be viewed on June 8, which was[/COLOR] [URL='http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/07/25/candidate-obamas-tribute-to-courage-and-patriotism-of-whistleblowers-disappears-2-days-after-first-snowden-revelations/']two days after the first revelations[/URL] [COLOR=#ccffcc]from Edward Snowden (who had then not yet revealed himself) about the NSA’s phone surveillance program. One of the promises Obama made on the website was on “whistleblower protections:”[/COLOR] [INDENT=1][COLOR=#ccffcc]Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance. Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government. Obama will ensure that federal agencies expedite the process for reviewing whistleblower claims and whistleblowers have full access to courts and due process.[/COLOR][/INDENT] [INDENT=1] [/INDENT] [COLOR=#ccffcc]The White House did not respond to multiple requests for comment on why the page was deleted. The site had offered a way to compare Obama’s promises and administration actions and still can be viewed[/COLOR] [URL='http://web.archive.org/web/20130425082834/http://change.gov/agenda/ethics_agenda/']on the Wayback archive.[/URL] [COLOR=#ccffcc]The page has long had a link to whitehouse.gov along with a note saying that “the transition has ended and the new administration has begun;” however, the website’s pages have recently become inaccessible from the site.[/COLOR] [SIZE=5][URL='http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/26/obama-whistleblower-website_n_3658815.html?1374857923'][B]Full article here[/B][/URL][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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