Obama's Promise to Protect Whistleblowers Disappears from Web
July 25, 2013 article by http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/07/25/obama-promises-disappear-from-web/
HN discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6106388
From the Sunlight Foundation:
Change.gov, the website created by the Obama transition team in 2008, has effectively disappeared sometime over the last month.According to the Internet Archive, the last time that content (beyond the splash page) was available was June 8th -- last month.
Why the change?
Why the change?
Here's one possibility, from the administration's ethics agenda:
Protect Whistleblowers: 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.
It may be that Obama's description of the importance of whistleblowers went from being an artifact of his campaign to a political liability. It wouldn't be the first time administration positions disappear from the internet when they become inconvenient descriptions of their assurances.
Obama's vision for lobbying transparency has similarly been discarded along the way, but the timing here suggests that the heat on Obama's whistleblower prosecutions has led the administration to unceremoniously remove their previous positions.
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