Greg Craig Won’t Tell You How Obama Disappeared the Whistleblowers

By: emptywheel Tuesday March 17, 2009 6:03 am

Some lawyer who looks remarkably like Greg Craig doesn’t want you to know whether or not Obama will prosecute whistleblowers.

Obama’s Signing Statement Disappears Whistleblowers

By: emptywheel Thursday March 12, 2009 6:55 am

Obama followed up his memo of the other day–promising not to use signing statements like Bush did–with a signing statement used like Bush did. Most troubling, he used it to counteract efforts to make it easier for whistleblowers to report problems and wrong-doing to Congress.

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