Wikileaks.org, a website on which whistleblowers may
anonymously break stories of government and corporate transgressions, has gone offline and will remain so
while it looks for funding. The home page featured a message saying that
Wikileaks had received "hundreds of thousands of pages from corrupt banks
and other information pertaining to the Iraq war, China, the United Nations”
and that it does not currently have the resources to release the documents.
Wikileaks has featured thousands of sensitive documents regarding the September
11 attacks, Guantánamo Bay and the Church of Scientology, among others. Neil
Gordon of the Project on Government Oversight
commented on Wikileaks, saying: "We think there's nothing but good that
can come from sites like Wikileaks. It provides places for whistleblowers to
provide documents anonymously, which is often the only way you can uncover
corruption."
In a controversial move, drug maker GlaxoSmithKline has decided to finance a
documentary about eating habits in order to increase its sale
of a weight loss drug they produce. While corporations often financially
support films, as a rule they do not directly finance films with the hope of
translating that support into profit. Some in the film industry are worried
that the film will function more like a commercial for the weight loss drug and
less like a documentary.
The man who is going to go to jail for forty months because he came forward about a large number of people who have accounts in Switzerland should not have to go to jail for saving the government a substantial amount of money.
Posted by: Margaret Currey | January 10, 2010 at 02:18 PM