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Showing Original Post only (View all)Obama Promises, Including Whistleblower Protections, Disappear From Website [View all]
Source: Huffington Post
Amid the Obama administration's crackdown against whistleblowers, Change.gov, the 2008 website of the Obama transition team laying out the candidate's promises, has disappeared from the internet.
The Sunlight Foundation notes that it last could be viewed on June 8, which was two days after the first revelations from Edward Snowden (who had then not yet revealed himself) about the NSA's phone surveillance program.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/26/obama-whistleblower-website_n_3658815.html
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Obama Promises, Including Whistleblower Protections, Disappear From Website [View all]
ClarkJonathanKent
Jul 2013
OP
"Check that definition of "treason" yet?" Hey, I'm game. Now lets see..........
cstanleytech
Jul 2013
#41
Whoa, whoa, whoa! You actually think Barack Obama is a totalitarian "Big Brother"?
Pterodactyl
Aug 2013
#70
“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion.
FiveGoodMen
Jul 2013
#14
Please re-read both: Winston's job at the Ministry of Truth was to drop things into the memory hole
panzerfaust
Jul 2013
#46
As I was observing the Thunder Moon, I notices a couple of drones with whistle blower sites attached
Thinkingabout
Jul 2013
#27
Campaign Obama was nothing but a pitch, a sales gimmick, a slick illusion.
blkmusclmachine
Jul 2013
#37
here's the actual recorded Policy "protecting whistleblower"2012 (not the text from old 2008 elect)
Sunlei
Jul 2013
#38