DemocracyNow.org – The Food and Drug Administration has been found to have launched a massive surveillance campaign targeting its own scientists for writing letters to journalists, members of Congress and President Obama. The scientists were expressing their concern over the FDA's approval of medical imaging devices for colonoscopies and mammograms that could endanger patients with high levels of radiation. The covert spying operation led the agency to monitor the scientists' computers at work and at home, copying emails and thumb drives and even monitoring individual messages line-by-line as they were being composed in real time. The agency also created an enemies list. We're joined by the FDA whistleblowers' attorney, Stephen Kohn, executive director of the National Whistleblowers Center. "For the first time we now have a glimpse into what domestic surveillance of whistleblowers looks like in this country with the modern technological developments," Kohn says. "The agency [sought] to destroy the reputation of these whistleblowers forever."
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Damn……….why don’t they just do right by the people and they wouldn’t have to monitor their people!!!!
WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR GOVERNMENT???????
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unimaginably corrupt!
This is what you get when you treat goverment as a business instead of a collective.
Depopulation via radiation exposure. First airports & now hospitals.
Well, that’s good to see Chuck Grassley is on the right side for once.
The almighty dollar rules in the US. Safety be damned.
People need to swing for this.
Get rid of the FDA, permanently!
This doesn’t shock me. Interesting to see how the human found their private stuff on Google. Go get ’em Mr Attorney Man. These scientists need protection. Hope some good people give These Docs. a job. THEY are protecting us from those damn arse killers-of-mankind.
WE CAN’T TRUST OUR GOVERNMENT!!
the outcome of corporate run government!
When whistleblowers are not properly protected, like these brave souls at the FDA, then our nation ends up with tragic events like those presently unfolding around the meningitis outbreak.
Go Amy, go!! Go wbai, go. Keep up the great work.
Doctors, scientists should all standup for each other.
I bet OSHA can be added with the FDA to the list of doing wrong.
We need transparency, transparency to know who are spying on the citizens.
i would add WHO and IAEA as well..and we should remember karen’s silkwood death