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...sounds simple. But that view not only contradicts Justice's own statement supporting a sentence reduction - Birkenfeld faced a possible five-year sentence for his work on behalf of Olenicoff - it's also flat-out wrong, says Stephen Kohn, executive director of the National Whistleblowers Center, who has been involved with hundreds of whistle-blower cases. After all, he notes, it would be a serious disincentive if whistle-blowers could be tripped up by inadvertently leaving out some information the government might come across later...
...prosecution of John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban." "Basically, the government doesn't like whistle-blowers, and they have demonstrated time and again mountainous bad faith - as in this case, turning a perfectly good whistle-blower-incentive law into virtual entrapment," says Radack, who is the homeland security director...
David N. Campbell, executive director of the Hands on Disaster Response, an organization that has already sent a team to assess the situation in the Philippines, said he was skeptical about the success of groups working from afar...
Michael J. VanRooyen, co-director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, said he was more optimistic that “student efforts play a positive role in generating a bigger buzz of activity...
While HPF lacks an official sponsor, the group’s Education and Finance Director and relief effort organizer John P. Gobok ’12 said, “Our niche is creating awareness on campus...