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Whistleblower

A Collection of Articles, Notes and References

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 (Revised: Tuesday, January 11, 2005)

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8 "... Freely you received, freely give”.

            - Matthew 10:8 :: New American Standard Bible (NASB)

 

1 “But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.

2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,

4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God

5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.

6 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires,

7 always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth.                                                                  

8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth--men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected.

9 But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.”

            - 2 Timothy 3:1-9  :: New International Version (NIV)

 

6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

            - Hebrews 5:6 :: King James Version (KJV)

 

Therefore, I say:

Know your enemy and know yourself;

in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated.

When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself,

your chances of winning or losing are equal.

If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself,

you are sure to be defeated in every battle.

-- Sun Tzu, The Art of War, c. 500bc

 

There are two ends not to be served by a wanderer. What are these two? The pursuit of desires and of the pleasure which springs from desire, which is base, common, leading to rebirth, ignoble, and unprofitable; and the pursuit of pain and hardship, which is grievous, ignoble, and unprofitable.

- The Blessed One, Lord Buddha

 

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References

Kyodo News. (Thursday, November 07, 2002) Too much reliance on whistle-blowers. Japan: Japan Today.

http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=kuchikomi&id=205

McWilliams, Brian. (Wednesday, November 06, 2002) Navy Sites Spring Security Leaks. USA: Wired News.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,56219,00.html

Malkin, Michelle. (Wednesday, November 13, 2002) Who'll protect the whistleblowers? USA: Jewish World Review.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin.html

 

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Kyodo News. (Thursday, November 07, 2002) Too much reliance on whistle-blowers. Japan: Japan Today.

http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=kuchikomi&id=205

 

Too much reliance on whistle-blowers

 

Nippon Meat Packers, Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO)...the corporate scandals just keep on coming, and in each case the problem has been brought to light by internal whistle-blowers.

 

Writing in Chuo Koron this month in an article titled "Reliance on Regulators Ruins Corporations," former Bank of Japan Executive Director Tatsuya Tamura begins by noting that lack of compliance with regulations is a major issue in Japanese corporate management and identifies the causes as (1) the vagueness of the link between authority and responsibility and (2) dependence on favorable treatment from bureaucrats.

 

The Nippon Meat mislabeling scandal resulted in the resignation of the founder-chairman, but Tamura insists that forcing a top executive to take responsibility is just passing the buck.

 

Instead, he says, we should be trying to analyze the process that allowed such malfeasance to occur in the first place. In the case of TEPCO's failure to report damage to a nuclear reactor, Tamura notes that it may have been partly due to overly strict safety regulations, but a bigger problem is that Japan retains many of the old attitudes of a "village society" in which loyalty to the group is valued above all else.

 

Unlike Western society, Japanese culture has little appreciation for those who sound the alarm at the group's expense, tending instead to view them as snitches.

 

Another point the Nippon Meat and TEPCO incidents have in common is the behavior of the regulators, who turned a blind eye to the companies' noncompliance until the scandals broke, at which point they began pointing fingers.

 

Tamura warns: "Corporations cannot survive without a top executive willing to have everything out in the open, regardless of what bureaucrats say or do." (Kyodo News)

 

Thursday, November 7, 2002

Japan Today

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McWilliams, Brian. (Wednesday, November 06, 2002) Navy Sites Spring Security Leaks. USA: Wired News.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,56219,00.html

 

Navy Sites Spring Security Leaks 

 

By Brian McWilliams  |   Page 1 of 1

 

02:00 AM Nov. 06, 2002 PT

 

The U.S. Navy took one of its websites offline Tuesday and added new security controls to a second site after Internet surfers discovered they could access confidential Navy databases.

 

The exposed Navy files included material designed to support a machine for testing the electronics of weapon systems called the Consolidated Automated Support System. Web surfers were able to browse through hundreds of trouble tickets, dating back to 1989.

 

Also accessible by Internet users was a site operated by the Naval Supply Systems Command that enables Navy personnel to order commercial software or internally developed applications. One section of the database, known as QUADS, allowed visitors to pull up records on who registered to use the system and included their passwords.

 

A group of French security enthusiasts known as Kitetoa discovered the vulnerable sites, which were running IBM's Lotus Domino software. Kitetoa has reported similar security problems with Lotus software on other government and private websites.

 

A spokesperson for the Navy's North Island Naval Air Depot said the CASS database has been "shut down both internally and externally while we investigate possible vulnerabilities."

 

A NAVSUP representative declined to comment on the QUADS security flaw. After the Navy was notified about the problem, the QUADS site began requiring users to log in.

 

Both Navy sites appeared to contain "noncritical support systems" and were "not a military concern," said Brad Johnson, a former Navy officer and National Security Agency program manager.

 

"This is not the type of information (to which) the Navy would want to grant unrestricted access, but it is not something that threatens our security," said Johnson, now a vice president of Vigilinx, a security solutions provider in Parsippany, New Jersey.

 

Among the trouble tickets viewable by Internet users was a report from an officer aboard an aircraft carrier who noted unresolved problems with CASS systems overheating and malfunctioning "while operating in arduous environments such as the Arabian gulf."

 

William Knowles, operator of C4I.org, a computer security and intelligence site, said the Navy would view any intelligence leak as serious.

 

"Any information not already discussed on either CNN or the Pentagon Daily Brief is information that can be used by a motivated attacker-terrorist against U.S. interests around the globe," Knowles said.

 

The current incidents follow news in October that more than 600 Navy computers -- including some containing classified information -- were missing.

 

In an e-mail interview this week, Kitetoa founder Antoine Champagne wrote that a French appeals court recently overturned a ruling requiring him to pay a fine for publicizing security holes he found at Tati.fr, the homepage of a Paris-based clothing retailer.

 

According to Champagne, who has also identified flaws at sites runs by DoubleClick, Bull Groupe, Veridian and ChoicePoint, the ruling is important for computer security whistle-blowers.

 

"You can get to a page that is not supposed to be there for you, but that is unprotected, without being called an evil hacker," Champagne wrote.

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Reference.

Malkin, Michelle. (Wednesday, November 13, 2002) Who'll protect the whistleblowers? USA: Jewish World Review.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin.html

 

Jewish World Review Nov. 13, 2002 / 8 Kislev, 5763

Michelle Malkin

 

Who'll protect the whistleblowers?

 

While lawmakers in Washington pat themselves on the back for cooking up a massively expensive and mostly cosmetic Homeland Security Department bill, many of the real heroes of homeland security continue to suffer recriminations and retaliation.

 

Border Patrol agent Keith Olson, the arresting officer in Bellingham, Wash., who was responsible for obtaining the fingerprints of illegal alien sniper suspect Lee Malvo last December, has been the subject of two internal investigations during the past three weeks. Instead of pinning a medal on his chest and giving Olson a raise for taking the prints of Malvo that eventually led to his arrest in the Washington, D.C., area killing spree, federal officials are conducting a probe of his conduct.

 

Meanwhile, Border Patrol agent Daryl Schermerhorn has been castigated by an INS higher-up for publicly criticizing the decision by federal immigration authorities to release Malvo and his illegal alien mother earlier this year pending deportation proceedings.

 

On Oct. 29, Schermerhorn, a Northwest regional union representative for Border Patrol agents in Washington state, explained to FOX News' Bill O'Reilly that the catch-and-release policy for illegal aliens is a result of the government's perilous penny-pinching:

 

O'REILLY: Why were they happy to keep Malvo and his mother in the country? Why?

 

SCHERMERHORN: Well, what's the price of an airplane ticket from Seattle to Jamaica? That's why. The cost of housing them in jail until that time, that's why. They're trying to save a few dollars. It's nothing new for the INS to release criminals onto the streets and for them to commit murder. There's been hundreds murdered in the United States at the hands of illegal aliens.

 

SCHERMERHORN: ... It won't change until people are willing to talk about it, and there's very few of us in the Border Patrol willing to talk about it. I represent the Border Patrol agents through the National Border Patrol Council. We're willing to talk about it.

 

Schermerhorn's candor has been met by caustic, insulting criticism from at least one INS official. On Oct. 30, Robin F. Baker, an assistant regional director in the INS Western Regional Office in Laguna Niguel, Calif., sent an e-mail to Schermerhorn, which was copied to nearly 50 other INS employees:

 

"Nobody, not even a person of your monumental intelligence, could have predicted what path the young Mr. Malvo would take.Your agenda, whatever it may be, is counterproductive to the thousands of [detention and removal] personnel who are doing their best in spite of the limitations placed upon them by Congress, uncooperative foreign consulates, [non-governmental organizations], pro bono attorneys, special interest groups, ect. [sic] Have you ever detained a non-criminal mother and her 16 year old child for a lengthy period of time? Have you had to face the wrath of the above mentioned groups?"

 

Baker did not return a phone call seeking comment.

 

Ignore the hysterics. Of course, no one could have predicted that Malvo would go on a cross-country killing spree, as government prosecutors have alleged. But there were two people at INS who had a gut instinct that Malvo and his mother-two admitted illegal aliens with no documention and no means of support-should be detained and deported immediately for the good of the country: Border Patrol officer Keith Olson and his fellow agent, Raymond Ruiz.

 

Agent Ruiz warned last December: "Subject Uma James is a native and citizen of Jamaica with no immigration documents allowing her to be or remain in the United States legally. She has no roots or close family ties in the United States and is likely to abscond."

 

If INS and immigration court officials had heeded the warnings of the arresting officers, instead of caving in to the "pro bono attorneys and special interest groups" that Baker whined about in his e-mail, Malvo would never have had the opportunity to pursue his "counterproductive" agenda. And his mother wouldn't be on the lam today.

 

That's right. James (also known as Una James and Ana James), remains on the loose- in violation of the $1,500 bond posted on her behalf by the Northwest Immigrant Rights' Project of Seattle. Neither the Northwest Immigrant Rights' Project nor INS investigators have been able to track her down. Last week, Virginia commonwealth's attorney Robert Horan said FBI agents have now joined the hunt for her in Washington state.

 

Will a $37 billion Homeland Security Department prevent another Malvogate? As long as federal immigration authorities remain more committed to stifling whistleblowers instead of protecting them: Fat chance. 

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“Thou belongest to That Which Is Undying, and not merely to time alone,” murmured the Sphinx, breaking its muteness at last. “Thou art eternal, and not merely of the vanishing flesh. The soul in man cannot be killed, cannot die. It waits, shroud-wrapped, in thy heart, as I waited, sand-wrapped, in thy world. Know thyself, O mortal! For there is One within thee, as in all men, that comes and stands at the bar and bears witness that there IS a God!

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