one australia observer, whistleblowing, include whistleblowing is the legal regulation, and i quote, most crucial to integrity, accountability and organizational justice in all institutions, end quote. even if you might be a little skeptical about that statement, by the way i am not, we've recognized that whistleblowing is a powerful technique for holding the powerful accountable. i with this guide the importance of whistleblowing law by examining several different perspectives that are linked to different frameworks of accountability. these perspectives are a reservoir of arguments and proposals for change. through them we can consider the history and the expansion of whistleblowing laws and breaking through power but i'd can't begin this discussion without mentioning those whistleblowers who have changed the perception of the public of whistleblowing, and who have established a context and content of many whistleblower laws. but without an appreciation of these persons, whistleblowers become kind of insubstantial legal creations. in appreciation of their accomplishments and sacrifi

former chicago police officer, whistleblower featured in the series. she said she suffered retaliation for reporting and investing -- investigating criminal activity by fellow chicago officer. back, shaun king joins us to talk about many issues. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "human" by rag'n'bone man. the song is featured in ava duvernay's new documentary, "13th." catch it on netflix. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. juan: the election is just 18 days away and three presidential debates behind them now, hillary clinton and donald trump are campaigning. inlary clinton will be raleigh, north carolina, where she will be joined by the mothers of the movement -- women who lost their children to police-involved incidents and gun violence. among them, sybrina fulton, the mother of trayvon martin, gwen carr, the mother of eric garner, and geneva reed-veal, the mother of sandra bland. amy: the event comes as residents in new york protest yet another fatal police shooting. 66-year-old af

jared kurt whistleblower. it's not enough to talk about resources and regulations and improving investigations particularly of whistleblower claims.. you also have to address a political milieu, a mindset that affects the staff and the commission. whistleblowers represent a threat because they break ranks with the city family. you are part of the city family. you know many of these officials. you empathize with him. you are affiliated with them. so it is scary, or introduces some fears, when you have to deal with an accusation of wrongdoing by a fellow city official. potentially, for the staff they have to worry about what will happen to them if they find in favor of a whistleblower. this is a problem in all whistleblower programs, not just here. so i hope the staff will address implicit bias against whistleblowers and feared for their own careers if they pursue a case. these are real things and you really should address them. thank you very much >> thank you. >> i want to say that in my 19 years, almost 20,fo

jared kurt whistleblower. it's not enough to talk about resources and regulations and improving investigations particularly of whistleblower claims.. you also have to address a political milieu, a mindset that affects the staff and the commission. whistleblowers represent a threat because they break ranks with the city family. you are part of the city family. you know many of these officials. you empathize with him. you are affiliated with them. so it is scary, or introduces some fears, when you have to deal with an accusation of wrongdoing by a fellow city official. potentially, for the staff they have to worry about what will happen to them if they find in favor of a whistleblower. this is a problem in all whistleblower programs, not just here. so i hope the staff will address implicit bias against whistleblowers and feared for their own careers if they pursue a case. these are real things and you really should address them. thank you very much >> thank you. >> i want to say that in my 19 years, almost 20,fo

even before an anonymous whistleblower mailed the "new york times" a copy of part of his 1995 state returns. now this is no longer just an abstract debate. >> i will release my tax returns, against my lawyers' wishes, when she releases her 33,000 e-mails that have been deleted. >> reporter: every presidential candidate since 1972 has presumably felt the voters are entitled to know -- except one. important, even terrible, that he's trying to hide. >> it's republican nominee donald trump. >> reporter: donald trump's dodge has made him an easy target for "saturday night li live." >> he hasn't released his tax returns which means it's not that rich -- >> wrong. >> not that charitable. >> wrong. >> or has never paid taxes in his life. >> warmer. >> reporter: now the devil is in the details. specifically line 18 here on the 1040 form. declaring a net of nearly $1 billion. >> what kind of genius loses $1 billion in a single year? >> trump lost that much through what in hindsight appeared to have been a series of bad deal in the 1990s at his casinos in atlantic city, his airline business, and his p

we have a nonretaliation policy on whistleblowers. mr.z patrick: being fired in the federal government being a whistleblower is a serious matter. hopefully you are taking it seriously? mr. stumpf: very seriously. we have a nonretaliation policy. chairman hensarling: time of the gentleman has expired. the chair now recognizes the gentlelady from wisconsin, ms. moore, ranking member of our monetary policy and trade subcommittee. ms. moore: i want to welcome our witness here today. i have learned so much here. i know when you go to the wells fargo website there your picture is, john g. stumpf. the vision and values of wells fargo. it features -- you say that you started with wells fargo in 1981? mr. stumpf: 1982. ms. moore: my math is not that good. and you succeeded, -- succeeded mr. chevich, were you trained and knew the culture of this company, i guess there was a merger of wells fargo and norwest. so did you receive training or do you know if the employees were -- received training on this going for great program that we have talked abou

and they didn't. >> reporter: osha says it's now conducting a review of all wells fargo whistleblower cases since 2010 and tonight at 11:00, you'll hear from the former osha investigator. he reveals what he says he was instructed to do when that wells fargo case crossed his desk. janelle? >> thanks, liz. if you have a story call our tip line at 888-996-tips and send an e-mail to the unitality nbcbayarea.com. >>> they are creepy, they are crowley, and hikers say they are everywhere. i'm peggy bunker. and coming up just in time for halloween, we're talking tarantulas after the break. >>> not in the job description, no. but it's in the description of being a human being. >> he has the authority to write tickets, but the compassion not to. how one officer's decision has changed the lives of a world war ii vet. it's part of our bay area proud series. >>> and sear seeing temperatures in the 70 lls outside right now. as a warming trend takes shape and puts san jose in the mid to upper 80s. we'll talk about that and our next channels of rain and our seven-day forecast when we come right back.

protection whistleblowers. >> reporter: he gained national attention on the "daily show." now from his new office overseas whitman is again speaking out to the investigative unit. he says yesenia guitron's complaint ended up on his desk. >> i wasn't given an opportunity to do an investigation. >> reporter: whitman says no one in osha investigated the case. he says the agency held the complaint for six months and only assigned it to him to close it. when guitron filed a federal lawsuit. >> they assigned it to me for the purpose of assisted in the complaint. >> reporter: whitman says osha should have conducted guitron's investigation before she filed her lawsuit. in his report, whitman noted wells fargo declined to provide a defense. he says that should have been an automatic win for guitron and a win, he says, would have required osha to provide details about the case to banking regulators so they could take action. >> that, of course, didn't happen in this case because they didn't conduct an investigation. >> reporter: the fcc declined to comment about when it learned of w

whistleblowers are critical. they expose the doings inside o our government. they provide transparency thatpr we should have. indicates of edward snowden, he exposed how we were being spied on, all of us being spied on without justification and without a warrant, without a legal process. this was being done behind our back. in exposing this he help stimulate congress to actually take action, hasn't gone far enough but it has begun. i think edward snowden is heroic for exposing the violation of our basic constitutional rights. so we owe them a debt of gratitude and i would certainly pardon him and actually seek to bring them into our administration to be able to advise on both keeping security at the same time that we respect our constitutional right to privacy. in the words of benjamin franklin, those who do away with privacy in the name of security with wind up losing them both. >> host: critics will say he broke the law. >> guest: he broke the law but for a very specific purpose, which was to expose the violation of our very constitutional right. i know when

tonight he's speanexclusively to liz waer- of our investigative unit.this investigator viewed whistleblower cases f osha. liz? =pkg= outcue=...i'm liz gner" trt=4:36 =raj/gfx=if you have a tip forour investigative unit, ive us a unit" at nbc bay areaotom. =3shot= ad lib here's rob mayeda wi your microclimate forecast thanks rob =jess/chy= an eating contest gonwrg. >>> pretty powerful storms out here in the pacific, they are going to make a turn to the north, so clouds coming our to see rain coming back into the picture by monday of next week. >> not bad. welcome in the rain again. thanks, rob. >>> well, it's an eating contest gone wrong, the damage done by a ghost pepper and how it took a bay area man to the hospital for weeks. >>> and now we have jimmy. >>> hey, guys deleted from the show, david spade. do not change the channel. >>> and happening now on our twitter feed, it's all in the eyes, a new lie detector test scans your eyes to determine if you're lying. the technology was on display this week at a police convention in san diego. the test works on the premise that when you lie it re

happy birthday wikileaks.the whistleblowing website... turning 10.and it's founder says some big revelations could be coming...next. jason barry says, "a valley community is trying something a little different to get drivers to slow down.. we'll tell you what neighbors think the police chief of los angeles is releasing new details about a deadly shooting of a black man last weekend.and it's one of our e >> the police chief of los angeles releasing new details about a deadly shooting of a black man last weekend. it is one of our five stories and 55 seconds. man twice turned toward officers while holding a loaded gun. it comes after protesters interrupted meeting today. investigators say the train which crashed into a hoboken new jersey station last week hit 30 miles an hour, that is three times faster than the one person was killed and 100 others injured. >>> today marks the 10th anniversary for wikileaks. the founder stated he will publish significant information on three government -- before the years and. no specifics were given. >>> th

i want to talk about two of those recommendations could extending whistleblower protections to thosewithin the department is one of those recommendations. it is number six on page 96 of the report and it leaves that there is no san francisco police department policy that either emphasizes this city ordinance because, as you know, we already have the san francisco whistleblower protection ordinance. it already exists and yet it makes clear that whistleblower protection there is nothing within the san francisco police department manual were-that makes clear whistleblower protection is a priority for the department. neither does it extend the protection of the ordinance to reporters of all types of violations of san francisco police department. policy. so what would it take for these protections to be extended by you, this body, to report so that all reports of san francisco police department violations, particularly cover-up gross acts of misconduct, are not punished by threats or intimidation were retaliation. it is really up to this body to create a task force were an agency or depar

he's revealing to us what went on inside osha's whistleblower protection program. in 2010, his agency received a complaint by this woman after she was irfooed from wells fargo. she claims it was retaliation for raising red flags about the bank's practices. after she filed her case, no one inside osha investigated. she says she's frustrated. >> it just sat on somebody's desk. at the time i didn't know. i was certainly trusting that everyone did what they were supposed to do and they didn't. >> osha is conducting a review of all whistleblower claims they got since 2010. we're going to hear from the former osha investigator and what he was instructed to do when the wells fargo came across his desk. send us an email directly to the unit at net nbcbayarea.com. >>> the search for three missing bay area hikers has a happy ending. they were reported missing last night. they went hiking along the sierra nevada which is located in the unincorporated community of pine crest. they found christine ricks of am med low park and they believe heavy rain, snow and lightning played a

i want to talk about two of those recommendations could extending whistleblower protections to thosewithin the department is one of those recommendations. it is number six on page 96 of the report and it leaves that there is no san francisco police department policy that either emphasizes this city ordinance because, as you know, we already have the san francisco whistleblower protection ordinance. it already exists and yet it makes clear that whistleblower protection there is nothing within the san francisco police department manual were-that makes clear whistleblower protection is a priority for the department. neither does it extend the protection of the ordinance to reporters of all types of violations of san francisco police department. policy. so what would it take for these protections to be extended by you, this body, to report so that all reports of san francisco police department violations, particularly cover-up gross acts of misconduct, are not punished by threats or intimidation were retaliation. it is really up to this body to create a task force were an agency or depar

i want to talk about two of those recommendations could extending whistleblower protections to thosewithin the department is one of those recommendations. it is number six on page 96 of the report and it leaves that there is no san francisco police department policy that either emphasizes this city ordinance because, as you know, we already have the san francisco whistleblower protection ordinance. it already exists and yet it makes clear that whistleblower protection there is nothing within the san francisco police department manual were-that makes clear whistleblower protection is a priority for the department. neither does it extend the protection of the ordinance to reporters of all types of violations of san francisco police department. policy. so what would it take for these protections to be extended by you, this body, to report so that all reports of san francisco police department violations, particularly cover-up gross acts of misconduct, are not punished by threats or intimidation were retaliation. it is really up to this body to create a task force were an agency or depar

and things went down hill fast after an ex-girlfriend toll now his attorney says that this is a whistleblower and was started when he spoke out about policies in the sheriff's department. tonight we get an exclusive look at what he and his attorney believe is a rush to judgment in a bad case. >> we believe the charges were motivated because my client was a whistleblower. >> steven deputy was targeted by the deputy's office. he was questioning 30 deputies with field interview reports and trevino goes on with injuries like former deputy smith was involved in back in april of 2013. a suspect jumped from a vehicle with what appeared to be an ar15 and ran. >> they tried to specifically shape deputy smith's testimony about the incident in a way tampering. >> last week after smith was arrest sheriff bob waltero says he had a drug problem. >> he was trying to mask it and hide it. >> smith was charged with grand theft and possession of a controlled substance. trevino says there is a big problem with the drug charge. >> 31 years of practicing law i have yet to see a case where someone is charged with p

i want to talk about two of those recommendations could extending whistleblower protections to thosewithin the department is one of those recommendations. it is number six on page 96 of the report and it leaves that there is no san francisco police department policy that either emphasizes this city ordinance because, as you know, we already have the san francisco whistleblower protection ordinance. it already exists and yet it makes clear that whistleblower protection there is nothing within the san francisco police department manual were-that makes clear whistleblower protection is a priority for the department. neither does it extend the protection of the ordinance to reporters of all types of violations of san francisco police department. policy. so what would it take for these protections to be extended by you, this body, to report so that all reports of san francisco police department violations, particularly cover-up gross acts of misconduct, are not punished by threats or intimidation were retaliation. it is really up to this body to create a task force were an agency or depar

the whistleblower in case has been awarded more than seven million dollars. you may remember, mike mcqueary was placed on administrative leave from penn state after his role in the sex abuse scandal. he claimed he was treated unfairly by the university and his reputation was ruined and the jury agreed. sandusky is serving a 30 to 60 year prison sentence for sexually abusing 10 boys. tonight the world series heads to wrigley field for game three. the matchup between the cubs and the indians is now tied at one game apiece. it's the cubs' first world series home-game since this young indians fan will be at wrigley field tonight for the game. seven year old johnny wallach went to game one in cleveland with his dad.. but didn't get to watch most of it. he was accidentally knocked out by a cheering fan and had to leave the game with a concussion! the cleveland indians heard the story and rounded up two tickets for johnny and his dad at wrigley field. tampa international airport. but what makes it so special? there was a new study of the 10 best airports in the coun

investigative reporter david hammer got exclusive video and talked to a whistleblower who knew he needed to expose his supervisors for dumping oil into the gulf and trying to cover it up. evan howington had a dream job. it was like a high-stakes video game. controlled remotely operated vehicles. robot submarines oil rigs use to do important and sometimes dangerous work, deep in the gulf of mexico. but on his very first day on the uncle john oil rig, howington felt something wasn't right. before the uncle john even left pensacola harbor, howington noticed hydraulic oil dripping off the docked submarine and into the water below. he took pictures. he laid down absorbent cloths. he told his supervisor. who apparently didn't care. and that was just a prelude to an even bigger shock when the uncle john got walter oil and gas, 60 miles off port fourchon. here's how walter's oil well was supposed to work. oil flowing out of the ground 15- hundred feet below the surface of the gulf of mexico. it goes through a stack of valves and pipes called the christmas tree stack. then it connects to the pipe

his attorney says smith is a whistleblower, and was targeted when he spoke out against policies within the department. we get an exclusive look at what deputy smith and his attorney believe is a rush to judgement in a bad case. sot in-we believe the charges were motivated because my client was a whistle blower. 19:36:00 attorney john trevena represents former deputy steven smith. he says smith, a once honored deputy, was targeted by the sheriff's office. he complained about a policy which called for deputies to question 30 citizens a month with field interviews reports. trevena goes on with other issues like the shooting deputy smith was involved in back in april 2013. a suspect jumped from a vehicle with what appeared to be an ar-15 rifle and ran. dep smith is there in the white shirt shooting. smith says he was questioned more incident. trevena says there's a reason why. sot in-19:39:56 they tried to specifically shape dep smith testimony... essentially witness tampering. last week after smith was arrested sheriff bob gualtieri says smith had a drug problem. "he was trying to mask it

this deputy is saying he was targeted because he was a whistleblower? this former deputy says he started speaking out about policies within the on drug charges. steven smith was fired last week after sheriff bob gualtieri accused him of having a drug problem and charged him with theft and possession of a controlled substance. smith broke his silence last night.. where along with his attorney... he refuted those charges and says the sheriff wanted him gone because he was complaining about a policy that called for deputies to question 30 citizens a month with field interviews and subsequent reports. his attorney there are some big problems with those charges... because there are no drugs to offer up as evidence. smith says he's doing this to get his name back. 10 news contacted the sheriff's office for a response and we were told they've said all they're going to say about this case. coming up at in about a half hour... i'll tell you more about smith's complaints against the department including how they treated him after a shooting he was involved in a f

he could have been a whistleblower, he could have gotten all the protections of being a whistlebloweraised all the issues that he has raised, and i think there would have been a positive response to that. john: he could have gone to the congress. >> people tried doing that. there's a gentleman named william binny who tried going through channels, thomas drake tried going through channels. there were a lot of people who tried going through channels. most of them, at best, were ignored. some of them, like thomas drake, ended up getting charged with federal crimes only to have the charges dropped. the message at the nsa was very clear was that you could not go through channels. john: after the terror attack in california this year, the fbi said it needed to get inside the killer's iphone to see if there were isis contacts. they wanted apple to help them get past the phone's security. >> essentially, we're asking apple take the vicious guard dog away, let us try and pick the lock. john: apple replied: customers don't want their phones opened up. they want privacy. >> they have set out to

company that contracted beth martin and nsa whistleblower edward snowden. martin faces up to ten years in prison for theft of government the removal of classified materials. his attorney says there is no evidence he intended to betray his country. >>> 33 days before americans choose their next president. the approach of hurricane math sthu reportedly having an impact on the presidential clain campaign. it will begin airing if several cities in florida, hoping to take advantage of viewership due to the storm. field offices for both campaigns any of the states hit be i the hurricane. >> this morning the trump company made a last minute change to its schedule, donald trump will be going to new hampshire for a newly arranged town hall meeting t. same format used in sunday's debate. it is viewed as a dry run for trump. hillary clinton has far more experience with the town hall format during the primary. "wall street journal" reports allies want him the style mike pence deployed in tuesday night's debate. there was speculation pence might prep trump for the debat

the n-s-a whistleblower who remains exiled in russia.... after he revealed classified information about massive government surviellance programs. officials are looking into whether there is a link... and say the company is cooperating. the east coast-- bracing for the impact of hurricane matthew. the storm is only growing stronger as it heads closer to the u-s. gov. rick scott/r florida "with the storm going up our coast, a small deviation of this track change along florida's east coast. we have to prepare for a direct hit." the storm killed at least 16 people in the caribbean as it tore through haiti, cuba and the bahamas. yesterday-- gridlock at gas stations in the coastal states and highways out of town were packed with people evacuating. in florida -- store shelves emptied as people stock up with supplies. the entire state of florida is under a state of emergency. parts of georgia and the carolinas also toss to stephanie mostly cloudy today with periods of rain and thunder. warm again with highs reaching into the low 70s. the chance for

we also have some interesting videos and a lot of whistleblowers within the investigation have come forward so the state of our knowledge today is much better than it was 20 years ago. have to give credit to the people that know how to research. christina bergeson who came here and spoke. and that united airline pilot. including roger. and the investigators and others. they deserve a lot of the credit . i just want to let that be known. since the book has come out i've heard from at least a hundred individuals within the end of it military aviation. many of them were four and at the investigation themselves. many of them are still angry about what they experience. and what happened to them. kids will be now. according to an air traffic controller in fact he just e-mailed me today e-mail me today saying he loved the book i read about it and did not release his name he worked 38 years as an air traffic controller. this is a quote. the primary radar return indicated verbal movement that's what they saw on their screens and that is where the panic in washington dc. that was the first notice. i

a former penn state football coach's whistleblower lawsuit. mike mcqueary's testimony helped send jerry sandusky to prison for child sexual abuse. mcqueary lost his job after the accusations against sandusky came to light.he claims school leaders punished him for helping prosecutors and defamed him. support of san francisco 49ers quarterback colin kaepernick. other people chanted "no justice, no peace." this was the first game kaepernick has started since making headlines for kneeling during the national anthem each week in protest of racial beyond wisconsin.. a family in new york is mourning the loss of their child after he was run over by a lawnmower.police say a family member was riding the lawnmower at the time of the accident. authorities e was just an accident. the boy was just three- china launched its latest space mission, sending two astronauts into orbit where they will spend a month aboard an experimental space laboratory. the mission is part of a broader chinese plan to have a permanent space station in service around 20-22. swimin

bureau and they were in that process of termination. when senator chuck grassley, a warrior for whistleblowers, interceded on my behalf. i'm chuck grassley, and i approve this message. >>> cloudy skies and drizzle as we head to the rest of the day. 61 today and upper 50s tomorrow. cooler and nice mild weather ? >> r.j.: mom is gonna marry spencer today. i mean, you have to stop her. you can't let this happen. >> ridge: your mother is an adult, r.j. >> r.j.: you know this is a mistake. you've stopped her before. when you guys went to dubai -- >> ridge: abu dhabi. a lot has changed since then. >> r.j b he wasn't right for her then, and he's not right for her now. >> ridge: there's more to it, son. >> r.j.: like what? you and mom love each other. if there's a way you can make this work... you just can't let her do this, dad. >> ridge: your mom and i have a plan. [ birds chirping ] >> donna: dad is crazy. no matter how many pictures

whistleblowers are critical.they expose the doings inside of our government and provide transparency that we should have and in the case of edward snowden, he exposed how we were beingspied on, all of us spied on without justification and without a warrant, without a legal process. this was being done behind our backs. in exposing this, he helped stimulate congress to take action. it hasn't gone far enough but it has begun. i think edward snowden is heroic . we owe him a debt of gratitude and i would certainly pardon him into ourto bring him administration to be able to advise on keeping security at as we respect our constitutional right to privacy. in the words of benjamin franklin, those who would do away with privacy and the name wind up losingl them both. i know that when people go into service for government, they take a valid loyalty, and a look especially in the security services. toy taken out of loyalty protect and defend the constitution of the united states. yes he broke laws but in order to defend a h

. >> he says he was a whistleblower complaining about department policies and he says the sheriff wanted him to shut up. he was arrested for theft and deputy for four years until his ex-girlfriend told investigators that he was abusing prescription drugs. an attorney says the biggest problem with the charges, there are no drugs or controlled substances to offer into evidence. and smith says it was time for him to break his silence. >> i need to get my name back. that's the most important thing. who i am as a man. who i am as a father. who i was as a deputy. >> smith's attorney also says the sheriff's office has admitted to criminal offenses, but they were never charged criminally. now, that attorney john trevino plans to hold a news conference today to give more details on how they plan to fight these charges. we did reach out to the sheriff's office, 10news did last night, and the sheriff's office simply said they said all they're gonna say about this particular case. back to you. side of pulse nightclub in orlando. all night long a team of workers used paint and canvas for the one of a

louis a whistleblower exposed unsanitary practices that potentially exposed more than 1,800 veterans to viruses or bacteria. >> if something goes wrong in a system, i need to know about it. i cannot fix what i don't know. so i really need everybody's involvement and engagement to bring issues to me. that's what happened in st. louis. employees came to me and brought issues to me, and as soon as i became i took immediate action. >> prior to talking with the media today, the new director met with senator john mccain and representative ann kirkpatrick. as she left the v.a., she said that she had a productive meeting with the new director and while she still has concerns, she felt better when she walked out of the room than when she walked in. >>> a phoenix mother is in a lot of trouble for up to ten hours. police say 24-year-old paige adams was high on heroin when he left her 3-year-old alone. she had been arrested for shoplifting, and officers say they found syringes around the home. adams is due back in court october 17th. >>> glendale police are looking for a man who tried to sexuall