The reason I have so many references is to show this is a steadily increasing trend that I continuously update. It is not a vanishing blip on the radar. Failure to deal with this trend will have disastrous consequences for the future.

Obama, Biden,  and democrats have prosecuted whistleblowers just as have republicans. This amply documented (see references) but under reported fact has a negative effect on our republic.

Manning was tortured, denied trial for over two years, and pronounced guilty by Obama before trial. Snowden is still in exile. Thomas Drake was prosecuted for exposing the dishonesty and corruption of the NSA. Peacefully protesting in front of the White House will also land you in jail. These are just a few of many examples documented below.

The prosecution of whistleblowers  stands in sharp contrast to the criminals that the whistleblowers exposed who escaped prosecution.

Trump and republicans deserve no praise (see Beware the Trump Administration), but democrats are no longer even the lesser of two evils.  (See The Democratic Party is the More Effective of Two Evils and Beware the Biden Administration)  America will continue our descent towards post-constitution third world status until we change our course.

Help make your progressive case by using this documentation which is continuously updated. https://www.newprogs.org/make_your_case

References
1-We See the Merging of the War on Science and the War on Whistleblowers
2-Whistleblowers under Obama
3-Bingo Jury Gives Obama DOJ a Kick in the Crotch
4-Obama DOJ Wants a Second Dose of Humiliation in Bingo Trial
5-White House Pressuring Schneiderman to Drop Objections to Foreclosure Fraud Whitewash
6-New York Attorney General Kicked Off Government Group Leading Foreclosure Probe
7-Federal Work Suspension of Leading Arctic Scientist Ended as Investigation of His Investigators Deepens
8-U.S. Office of Special Counsel intervenes in support of TSA Federal Air Marshal whistleblower case
9-Why Is the DOJ Sealing Evidence of Criminal Activity by CEOs?
10-Ex-CIA Agent Jeffrey Sterling Arrested, Accused of Leaking to Reporter as Revenge 11-DoD Persecutes Guantanamo Guard Who Talked About the Torture
12-Freedom Is Not Free at the State Department
13-Obama Witch Hunt Against Polar Bear Scientists Takes New Twist – 2nd Scientist Asked to Take Lie Detector Test
14-SEC Whistleblower Comes Under Scrutiny--Another Case of "Kill the Messenger"?
15-Whistleblower finds no appropriate avenue for disclosing DoD wrongdoing
16-Obama Administration Caves to Industry Pressure and Fails Independent Livestock Producers with Watered-Down GIPSA Rule
17-Justice Department Attempted to Discredit ATF Whistleblower
18-U.S. General Fired for Criticizing Hamid Karzai
19-Comparison of Whistleblower Stay Requests: OSC vs. IRA
20-The Obama Administration has a Whistleblower Problem
21-Former Arizona U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke Admits Attempting to Discredit ATF Whistleblower
22-White House Answers “We The People” Petition to Free Bradley Manning
23-No Free Speech at Mr. Jefferson’s Library
24-What Country Do We Want to Keep?
25-Notary Public Who Blew The Whistle On Massive Foreclosure Fraud, Found Dead
26-Sunny Sheu: Murdered for Investigating NY Foreclosure Judge Joseph Golia?
27-Forty six whistleblowers and supporters (including at least 5 lawyers) seek a response from the Office of Special Counsel
28-MSPB Watch Files Whistleblower Disclosure against Office of Special Counsel
29-Whistleblower Requests Investigation of Department of Justice Lawyers and Nominee for Federal Court
30-OSC may be unlawfully turning away whistleblowers from the intelligence community
31-Intelligence Community Whistleblowers are being Misled by Government Officials
32-Peter Van Buren: In Washington, Fear the Silence, Not the Noise
33-The Campaign Against Whistleblowers in Washington
34-Thomas Drake, NSA Whistleblower, didn’t know he had another choice other than to go public
35-New Bill to Weaken Protections, Incentives for Whistleblowers Sneaks Through Committee
36-Obama Shoots the Messengers, Attacks Whistleblowers
37-The Disturbing Backstory of a Corrupt University President
38-Jake Tapper, Jay Carney Clash During White House Press Briefing
39-Will NGO Politics Get in the Way of Zealously Representing a Whistleblower in Court?
40-The Worst Administration on FOIA
41-The Whistleblowers Washington Ignores
42-Chilling Dissent on Wall Street
43-VIDEO: Stop Destroying Public Education! Lawyer & CTC Fired Whistleblower Carroll Speaks Out
44-I was First Whistleblower Prosecuted Under the Espionage Act in Recent Government Rampage
45-State Department Fires Iraq Whistleblower
46-Obama Cracks Down on Whistleblowers More than any other Administration
47-Cummings, Kucinich, Maloney Present Amicus on Behalf of TSA Whistleblower MacLean
48-US Government Keeping Data on Americans with No Connection to Terrorism
49-Obama Indicts Sixth Whistleblower Under the Espionage Act
50-Joining The Whistleblowers' Club
51-Obama Targets Journalists
52-NGO Watch: Beltway Accountability Groups Ignore News that Cabinet Department has been Violating a Major Whistleblower law for Almost a Decade
53-Obama’s War: Criminalize the Left
54-Leaking War - How Obama’s Targeted Killings, Leaks, and the Everything-Is-Classified State Have Fused
55-How Obama Broke His Campaign Promise to Whistleblowers
56-CIA Whistleblower Makes ‘Bold’ & ‘Provocative’ Allegations of ‘Selective’ & ‘Vindictive’ Prosecution
57-Countrywide/Bank of America Whistleblower Practically Begs for Subpoena, Obama DOJ Indifferent
58-Whistleblower Scandal Rocks National Reconnaissance Office
59-Assange Berates United States from Ecuador Embassy Balcony
60-Bradley Manning And Julian Assange Have Defeated Hillary, Barack, And The Bloody Secret Government
61-Chief Opponent of Whistleblower Rights in the House Defends ICE Whistleblowers
62-CIA Whistleblower on Trial, Holder Closes Final Investigation on Torture
63-In Memory of Joshua Casteel
64-Exclusive Interview with Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy
65-The Persecution of John Kiriakou: Torture and the Myth of Never Again
66-UBS Whistle-Blower Secures $104 Million Award From IRS
67-Top Priority: The Terror Within
68-Obama Campaign Brags About Its Whistleblower Persecutions
69-Key Evidence in Assange Case Dissolves
70-Justice Unbalanced – Whistleblower Protections under Obama
71-Man Sues St. Lucie Nuclear Plant over Job Loss, Claiming He was Whistle-blower
72-Julian Assange to UN: “End Obama’s Regime of Secrecy”
73-National Whistleblowers Center Explains Roots of Divisions and Setbacks in the Federal Whistleblower Community
74-Ex-Government Official Says CIA Scapegoating Whistleblower John Kiriakou to Protect One of Its Own Torturers
75-Former CIA Officer Pleads Guilty In Leak Case
76-Two and a Half Years for Blowing the Whistle on Government's Torture Program
77-Walmart Whistleblowers Stand Up to Retaliation
78-Bradley Manning Deserves Americans' Support for Military Whistleblowing
79-Nobel Laureates Salute Bradley Manning
80-OakRidge Nuclear Weapons Security Breach Showed How U. S. System for Protecting Whistleblowers Is Broken
81-Breaking Private Manning
82-Bradley Manning Takes Stand, Puts Military Captors on Trial
83-WikiLeaks: Still Standing, Still Speaking Truth to Power
84-US Whistleblowers on Being Targeted by the Secret Security State
85-Assange praises Bradley Manning
86-What’s Missing from the Adulatory Coverage of Obama’s Whistleblower Protections
87-Aaron Swartz and Bradley Manning: How the US Government Contains Those Who Would Free Information
88-Obama Administration Quietly Reopens Case That Could Criminalize Peer Review Process
89-Obama Indicts Sixth Whistleblower Under the Espionage Act
90-The Obama administration’s war on whistleblowers
91-CIA whistle-blower sentenced to 30 months
92-Bradley Manning Called the 'NYT' and 'Washington Post'—What If They'd Responded?
93-We Are Bradley Manning
94-One Thousand Days Too Many
95-Whistleblower files federal lawsuit against Morgan Stanley, FINRA
96-White House Strategy to Protect Trade Secrets Mischaracterizes WikiLeaks, Criminalizes Hacktivists
97-10 Years After The Iraq War and Big Threat to Whistleblowers
98-Daniel Ellsberg: In Hearing Bradley Manning Act Out of Conscience, Secret Tape Refutes Media Slander
99-The War Against Bradley Manning -- A War Against All Who Speak Out Against Injustice
100-CIA Whistleblower: “US is a Police State, Obama Consciously Allows Torture”
101-Experience: I was a whistleblower - 'I had been prepared to fight the enemy in Iraq, but I never expected to feel betrayed by my own people'
102-NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake speaks at National Press Club
103-NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake: All Doubts Dispelled, Bradley Manning’s a Whistleblower
104-Revealed: Pentagon's link to Iraqi torture centres - Exclusive: General David Petraeus and 'dirty wars' veteran behind commando units implicated in detainee abuse
105-Obama's Crackdown on Whistleblowers
106-Whistleblower: VA Hiding Veteran Health Data
107-Former Animal Rights Prisoner on Ag-Gag Laws, Secretive Prison Units & Detention of Daniel McGowan
108-How Bradley Manning Could Have Prevented the Deepwater Horizon Explosion
109-Julian Assange may be unable to leave Britain until 2015
110-Legal Group Launches to Aggressively Challenge US Government Prosecutions of Whistleblowers
111-New Film Explores Obama's War on Whistleblowers and the Free Press
112-NYT Reporter: Obama Admin's Crackdown Has Scared Whistleblowers From Speaking to Journalists
113-Oliver Stone Meets With Julian Assange, Rips Upcoming Films About WikiLeaks
114-Sweden’s case against Assange is falling apart
115-WikiLeaks activist in New York to protest US whistleblowers clampdown: Iceland MP Birgitta Jónsdóttir arrives in US for first time since WikiLeaks 'Collateral Murder' controversy three years ago
116-Journalists Speak Out About How Our Democracy is in Danger
117-Assange says he has proof of extradition fit-up
118-Be more professional! GCHQ staff rapped as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange reveals messages that he says point to 'fit up'
119-Countdown to freedom: CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou begins jail sentence
120-Director of film about Obama’s war on whistleblowers weighs in on AP phone records
121-GMO Whistleblower
122-Julian Assange reveals GCHQ messages discussing Swedish extradition
123-Military decrees media access to Manning’s hearing is a privilege, not a right
124-Peter Van Buren: If the Government Does It, It’s “Legal”
125-Slideshow: Six Whistleblowers Charged Under the Espionage Act
126-War on Whistleblowers Enunciates the Nation's Servility to Corporate Fat Cats
127-Whistleblowers: American Heroes?
128-Why you should care about whistleblowers
129-WikiLeaks, the Film: Massive Leaks Are a Natural Response to Government Classification Run Amok
130-Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen? After supporters protested his “sham” trial, Abdulelah Haider Shaye would have been pardoned. Then Obama intervened.
131-Imprisoned CIA Torture Whistleblower John Kiriakou Pens “Letter from Loretto”
132-Going to Jail for Justice
133-Why Tim DeChristopher Went to Prison for His Protest
134-Chase Madar, Bradley Manning vs. SEAL Team 6
135-10 Questions for NBC Host Who Shamelessly Suggested Greenwald Be Arrested for NSA Leaks
136-As Bradley Manning Trial Begins, Press Predictably Misses the Point
137-Assange: US rule of law suffering 'calamitous collapse'
138-Bank of America whistle-blower’s bombshell: “We were told to lie”
139-Chris Hedges on Edward Snowden: Hero or Traitor?
140-Did the Mainstream Media Fail Bradley Manning? Alleged Wikileaks whistleblower says he tried contacting major newspapers before going public
141-Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations - The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended on hiding in the shadows
142-Former CIA Employee, Snowden, Blows Whistle on NSA's Dragnet Surveillance
143-Going Through the ‘Proper Channels’ to Blow the Whistle on Secret Surveillance Programs
144-Government Case Against Whistleblower Thomas Drake Collapses: Faced with the prospect of trying to convict a man for leaking unclassified information, the DoJ put together a misdemeanor plea deal.
145-Inside the NSA’s Domestic Surveillance Apparatus: Whistleblower William Binney Speaks Out
146-JUSTICE: Green Shadow Cabinet stands with Bradley Manning
147-Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will'
148-NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: 'I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things' – video
149-Latest Glenn Greenwald Scoop Vindicates One Of The Original NSA Whistleblowers
150-Obama Cans Regulator Who Crossed Wall Street - Ouster is a gain for big bankers advocating lax oversight
151-Should Journalists Who Talk to Leakers Be Worried?
152-The Judicial Lynching of Bradley Manning by Chris Hedges
153-Slideshow: Six Whistleblowers Charged Under the Espionage Act
154-The War on Whistleblowers: On the Sin of Being Correct
155-Obama's War on Whistleblowers Finds Another Target
156-TransCanada Whistleblower Warns Of Shoddy Pipeline Practices
157-War Crime Whistleblower in Obama’s Sights, War Criminals Not
158-Ag-Gag Laws Silence Whistleblowers
159-Jailed Journalist Barrett Brown Faces 105 Years For Reporting on Hacked Private Intelligence Firms
160-Obama Promise To 'Protect Whistleblowers' Just Disappeared From Change.gov
161-Obama's Plan to Crackdown On Whistleblowers Leaked To McClatchy
162-Should the NSA Be Dismantled? An Interview with Whistleblower Thomas Drake
163-8 Ways WikiLeaks Cables About a Tiny Country Like Iceland Expose the Dark Depths of American Empire - A Chelsea Manning-leaked cable showed how Iceland asked the U.S. to stop European "bullying," just the first of a deluge of revelations detailing how America throws around its weight

164-Another U.S. Whistleblower Behind Bars? Investor Jailed After Exposing Corrupt Azerbaijani Oil Deal

165-Suit Revives Goldman Conflict Issue

166-EPA anti-whistleblower crusade targets Marsha Coleman Adebayo

167-Former F.B.I. Agent to Plead Guilty in Press Leak

168-Sen. Ron Wyden On NSA Spying: It's As Bad As Snowden Says: If we do not seize this moment in history to reform our surveillance laws, we will all live to regret it.

169-The war on whistleblowers is a war against your conscience

170-TransCanada Whistleblower Evan Vokes Details Lack of Confidence in Keystone XL

171-Hedges: Jeremy Hammond Exposed State's Plan to Criminalize Democratic Dissent

172-Jeremy Hammond Sentenced To Maximum Sentence, 10 Years

173-Activist cited for animal cruelty because she filmed animal cruelty

174-Fracking Activist Silenced for Doing EPA's Work

175-From Snowden To Manning... To Ben Franklin And Sam Adams? A History Of Leakers Of Secret Gov't Documents

176-Giving Thanks For Whistleblowers, Leakers, Old and New Maroons
177-Principal Compares Whistleblower to Murderer “Adam Lanza”

178-Protesting Big Bank Financing of Toxic Industries May Get You a Year in Jail, While Execs Go Free

179-So Who Is Carmen Segarra? A Fed Whistleblower Q&A

180-Veterans Are Being Threatened and Silenced by the US and UK Militaries

181-What We Know About Government Malfeasance Is Primarily Due to Whistleblowers

182-Hacker Faces More Jail Time Than The Convicted Steubenville Rapists He Exposed

183-Edward Snowden’s Moral Courage by Chris Hedges

185-Coalition Files Lawsuit Against Idaho Ag-Gag Law That Targets Journalism, Whistleblowing & Speech
186-The Criminalization of Journalism: Icelandic MP Birgitta Jonsdottir Pens Open Letter in Defense of Jailed Journalist, Barrett Brown
187-DC Thinks It Can Silence a New Snowden, But the Anti-Leak Hypocrisy is Backfiring

188-Don't Shoot the Messenger! Whistleblowing appears to be on the increase. But so is the war against those who do it. Where will it end?

189-Feds Drop Most Charges Against Man Who Linked to Anonymous’ Stolen Data

190-Hillary Clinton Mocks Snowden, Displays Her Ignorance When It Comes to Whistleblowers
191-Peter Van Buren: I’m a Whistleblower, Want Fries with That?
192-Imprisoned CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou Threatened with ‘Diesel Therapy,’ Suffers Shakedowns for Talking to Press
193-Memo to Potential Whistleblowers: If You See Something, Say Something
194-New Snowden Doc Reveals How GCHQ/NSA Use The Internet To 'Manipulate, Deceive And Destroy Reputations'
195-Silencing Whistleblowers Obama-Style: Supreme Court Edition?
196-Snowden and Poitras to Receive Truth-Telling Prize
197-Snowden Docs: U.S. Spied On Negotiators At 2009 Climate Summit
198-Snowden Should Refuse to Play “Alice in Wonderland” - Clinton and Kerry Call On Snowden To Submit To Sham Security State Trial

199-The Fog Machine of War - Chelsea Manning on the U.S. Military and Media Freedom

200-Time To Release John Kiriakou, As Senate Releases Torture Report

201-Peter Van Buren: The War on Whistleblowers, Supreme Court Edition

202-TransCanada Whistleblower’s Evidence Ignored, Keystone XL South Rushed Into Operation

203-Whistleblower Evan Voke's Evidence Against TransCanada Whitewashed By Regulators

215-I-Team: Special Ed Teacher Says District Retaliated After Whistleblowing

216-Edward Snowden and the Golden Age of Spying: An Interview with Laura Poitras

217-FBI Whistleblower: “U.S Is Reviving Terror Scare With ISIS To Promote The Terror War Industry”

218-Holder Rationalizes Obama’s War on Whistleblowers

219-NSA Whistleblower: ‘We’re No Longer a Country with a Government, We’re a Government with a Country’ - Former high-level intelligence official warns of "totalitarian" slide into a "controlled society"

220-Obama Has Sentenced Whistleblowers to 25 Times the Jail Time of All Prior U.S. Presidents COMBINED - And Obama Is Arguably More Hostile Towards The Press Than Any President In History

221-Petraeus and Snowden: Both Leakers of Classified Material, Same Punishment?

222-Podcast: CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou on How US Government Treats Whistleblowers in Prison

223-Stranger Than Fiction: ‘Citizenfour’ Is a Dire Parable of Whistle-Blowers and Government Spying

224-Torture If You Must, But Do Not Under Any Circumstances Call the New York Times

225-The Death of Truth by Chris Hedges

226-Whistle Blower Kendrick Paying the Price

227-Whistleblower: State Department Employees Who Don’t Sign Separation Agreement Face Dire Consequences

228-'Guilty of Embarrassing Government': CIA Whistleblower Gets 42-Month Sentence - Prosecution of Jeffrey Sterling stands in stark contrast to leniency granted to former CIA director General David Petraeus

229-A Double Standard on Leaks? As Whistleblowers Jailed, Petraeus Escapes Prison & Advises White House

230-Alarming Flip-Flop on Whistleblowers from Senator Harry Reid

231-Assange Reveals That The West is Behind ISIS And Ukraine Crisis And Israel Behind Hamas

232-I Went to Prison After Exposing US Torture. Why Weren’t the Perpetrators Charged?

233-Tomgram: Barbara Myers, The Unknown Whistleblower

234-For one whistleblower, getting fired was too much

235-Gen. Petraeus: Too Big to Jail

236-US Government Wants You to Hate Snowden, and It's Working - New polls show that the NSA whistleblower’s popularity remains strong among young Americans and Europeans. But older Americans, Brits and Canadians aren’t as enthused

237-I-Team: Special Ed Teacher Says District Retaliated After Whistleblowing - An award-winning special education teacher has sued her Long Island school district, saying officials there retaliated against her after she spoke up for students who were not getting the help they are promised under law. (Video)

238-Whistleblower Targeted for Exposing UN Troops Raping Children: United Nations “peacekeeping” troops were systematically raping and sexually exploiting starving young children

239-The Courage of Bystanders Who Press 'Record'

240-'A national hero': psychologist who warned of torture collusion gets her due - Jean Maria Arrigo was largely ignored and the subject of a smear campaign for sounding alarms about psychologists’ post-9/11 torture complicity but has emerged from the damning report as the story’s hero – and martyr

241-Time To Reopen the Case on CIA Torture

242-Charged With the Crime of Filming a Slaughterhouse: So-called "Ag-Gag" laws reveal the lengths to which the agriculture industry will go to keep their business practices secret.

243-In Wyoming it’s now illegal to collect data about pollution - A new Wyoming law expands on the “ag-gag” trend of criminalizing whistleblowers in a new way: making it illegal for citizens to gather data about environmental pollution.

244-Petition to pardon Edward Snowden rejected by Obama administration: The White House responded to 168,000 signatories with its unwavering position that the NSA whistleblower should return to US to face espionage charges

245-The Fear of Speaking Publicly: Ask Little Falls

246-The Forgotten Man Who First Blew the Whistle on CIA Torture

247-Tomgram: Barbara Myers, The Unknown Whistleblower

248-Whistleblower prison guard paid the price for reporting abuse

249-Official who raised safety concerns at Hanford nuclear site is fired

250-Publicity hound, coward, liar: Whistleblowers are inevitably demonized by their enemies — Edward Snowden is no exception

251-An Idiot’s Guide to Prosecuting Corporate Fraud

252-CIA planned rendition operation to kidnap Edward Snowden - World Socialist Web Site

253-Evan Vokes Whistleblower Award - YouTube

254-Exclusive: Freed CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou Says "I Would Do It All Again" to Expose Torture | Democracy Now!

255-Journalists Should Stand Up for Whistleblowers | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

256-TransCanada dismissed whistleblower. Then their pipeline blew up. | National Observer

257-UN whistleblower who exposed sexual abuse by peacekeepers is exonerated | World news | The Guardian

258-USDA Whistleblower Accuses Agency of Censorship of Pesticide Research

259-Video: U.S. Intelligence 9/11 and Iraq: A Whistleblower’s Story | Your News Wire

260-War On Whistleblowers Paves Way For Global Press Crackdown | PopularResistance.Org

261-World Bank Whistleblower Karen Hudes Reveals How The Global Elite Rule The World | The Mind Unleashed

262-Whistleblower Cop Calls Out Corruption in Her Department, Naturally She’s Being Fired for It | The Free Thought Project

263-A Conversation on Privacy With Edward Snowden, Noam Chomsky, and Glenn Greenwald

264-A Double Standard on Leaks? As Whistleblowers Jailed, Petraeus Escapes Prison & Advises White House

265-Cove Point Defender Convicted of Making False Statement to Police

266-Arrested for asking questions about corruption

267-Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Exhibit One in Any Future American War Crimes Trial

268-Whistleblower: EPA Official Covered Up Methane Leakage Problems Across US Natural Gas Industry

269-Whistleblower Says EPA Officials Covered Up Toxic Fracking Methane Emissions for Years

270-Former Hunters Point Worker Claims Supervisors Ordered Him to Hide Radiation - Anthony Smith reveals to the Investigative Unit how he says supervisors concealed radiation at Hunters Point by instructing him to switch soil samples and dump potentially contaminated dirt into the ground.

271-Hillary Clinton on the Sanctity of Protecting Classified Information

272-Interview with Whistleblower Bill Binney

273-It Wasn't Just Republicans: How the EPA's own poisoned politics failed to protect the people of Flint

274-Julian Assange and America's vendetta against WikiLeaks - As the contrast with the extradition case of Augusto Pinochet shows, it's one law for whistleblowers, another for war criminals by Amy Goodman

275-CIA Whistleblower meme

276-Probe launched into Pentagon handling of NSA whistleblower evidence

277-Thanks to 'War on Whistleblowers,' US Ranks 41st on Press Freedom Index - Reporters Without Borders' annual rankings find US's relative improvement "hides overall negative trends"

278-Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, Inside the Devastation of America's Drone Wars

279-US State Department Unable to Explain Difference Between Panama & Snowden Revelations

280-When will the US government stop persecuting whistleblowers? The National Insider Threat Task Force subjects officials to surveillance and fear, and uses me as an example. Those with legitimate concerns should be empowered to speak out

281-Why Won’t Amnesty International Classify Chelsea Manning As A Political Prisoner?  In this episode of “Behind the Headline,” host and MintPress News Editor-in-Chief Mnar Muhawesh talks to Kevin Gosztola, editor of Shadowproof, about why some human rights groups don’t count Chelsea Manning as a political prisoner -- and why that matters.

282-The man who filmed Eric Garner’s death by cop’s chokehold will spend the next 4 years in prison

283-Assange implies murdered DNC staffer was WikiLeaks' source

284-Bob Beckel: "Illegally Shoot the SOB" (Julian Assange of WikiLeaks)You Tube

285-Julian Assange Special: Do Wikileaks have the email that'll put Clinton in Prison?  You Tube

286-Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden Have Called For Assassination Of Julian Assange text and video

287-Julian Assange ‘Wanted Dead Or Alive’ By U.S. Government

288-Google suddenly hiding the relevant DNC leaks when you search for “Assange”

289-Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange and Edward Snowden statues unveiled in Berlin

290-Swedish rape warrant for Wikileaks' Assange cancelled

291-Julian Assange: Hacked Emails Include Info On Hillary’s Arming of Jihadists, Including ISIS, in Syria

292-WikiLeaks Exposes Hillary’s Stunning Connection to ISIS — Mainstream Media Blackout Ensues

293-'Guccifer' hacker sentenced to 52 months in prison

294-Assange Claims ‘The Clinton Threat Machine Is Ferocious’

295-Assange lawyer: Manning commutation doesn't meet extradition offer's conditions

296-Bradley Manning leak did not result in deaths by enemy forces, court hears - Counter-intelligence officer who investigated WikiLeaks impact undermines argument that Manning leak put lives at risk

297-Assange Releases SMS Records Showing He Was Framed by Police in Rape Cases

298-CIA Whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling Close To Death In Federal Prison UPDATE: Under pressure from media and supporters, prison officials said they will consider CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling’s request to consult with an outside cardiologist.

299-Hacker Guccifer, who exposed Clinton’s use of private e-mail, gets 52 months - Feds wanted harsh term to underscore that hacking is not "a crime to be celebrated."

300-Julian Assange has confirmed that the U.S. government is lying to the American people about Russia.

301-New York Times Launches McCarthyite Witch-Hunt Against Julian Assange

302-NSA Inspector Who Criticized Snowden for Not Using 'Official' Channels Found Guilty of Retaliating Against Whistleblower Who Did Just That - Criticism by agency's inspector general appears particularly threadbare after internal panel found him guilty of lashing out against employee who came forward

303-Obama’s Gift to Donald Trump: A Policy of Cracking Down on Journalists and Their Sources

304-Only CIA Agent Jailed for Torture Program Is Whistleblower Who Confirmed Its Existence - Former operative John Kiriakou, currently in prison, was charged with a crime after helping expose widespread abuses conducted by agency

305-Over 60 professors, four Nobel Prize winners, demand Sweden to respect the UN ruling on Assange’s freedom

306-Post Urges Prosecution for Leak That Won the Paper a Pulitzer

307-Journalist Who Died In Car Accident Feared Government Was Tracking Him Before Death; WikiLeaks Documents May Have Vindicated Him

308-The True Scandal of 2016 Was the Torture of Chelsea Manning

309-The Whistleblower the CIA Couldn’t Break: John Kiriakou went to prison for exposing waterboarding. Now he's out, and taking on the carceral state.

310-UN panel: WikiLeaks' Assange a victim of arbitrary detention

311-US Government Calls For Assassination Of Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange - High-level U.S. government officials, including Hillary Clinton and Joseph Biden, demand for the assassination of Assange and to list WikiLeaks as a terrorist organization.

312-WashPost Makes History: First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source (After Accepting Pulitzer)

313-Inside the Assassination Complex: Whistleblowing Is Not Just Leaking — It’s an Act of Political Resistance

314-WikiLeaks Operative Exposes Democrat Insiders as Source for Hacked DNC Docs — NOT RUSSIA

315-3 Attorneys Found Dead In Wasserman Schultz Florida District In 2 Weeks: Fearing for his life as colleagues and attorneys drop dead around him, DNC fraud lawsuit attorney seeks protection order from court, citing dead lawyers, Seth Rich's unsolved murder and Shawn Lucas' untimely death.

316-Meet Gary Webb

317-Lockheed Martin, which already settled one whistleblower suit at Stennis Space Center for $2 million, hit with another

318-Whistleblower Case Shows How Trump Tries to Silence Science: A top federal scientist working with Alaska Native communities on climate change talks about abuses of power and intimidation, while a report details other tactics.

319-Chomsky: CIA Targeting of Julian Assange of WikiLeaks is "Disgraceful Act"

320-Edward Snowden On Putin, Obama, Trump And Questioning Power

321-26 Reasons Why We Should Pay Attention To Edward Snowden

322-A Day Before A Baltimore Detective Was Set to Testify Against His Own Department, He Was Gunned Down. So Police Barricaded the Community.

323-A Whistle-Blower Alleges Corruption in Rick Perry’s Department of Energy

324-Assange lawyer: Manning commutation doesn't meet extradition offer's conditions

325-Assassins Kill ‘Panama Papers’ Journalist Who Linked Ivanka Trump To Russian Money Launderers

326-CIA Agent Says Agency Supplies Pedophiles With Children

327-Hillary Clinton Just Told Five Blatant Lies About WikiLeaks

328-CLINTON, ASSANGE AND THE WAR ON TRUTH

329-FBI Whistleblower on Pierre Omidyar and His Campaign to Neuter Wikileaks

330-How to help Julian Assange and/or Wikileaks against trolls

331-Julian Assange: Isis and Clinton Foundation are both funded by Saudi Arabia and Qatar - ‘This is the most significant email in the whole collection’

332-OP-ED: If Ecuador Withdraws Support And Protection From Julian Assange, It Will Be A Tragedy

333-‘The Atlantic’ Commits Malpractice, Selectively Edits To Smear WikiLeaks

334-Reporter who exposed BBC pedophilia cover-up 'drops dead'

335-The Dangerous Hypocrisy of Celebrating Obama While Criminalizing Manning - As president, Barack Obama prosecuted more than twice as many whistleblowers as all previous administrations combined — stifling a vital source of information about state practices shrouded in a veil of secrecy

336-TransCanada dismissed whistleblower. Then their pipeline blew up.

337-Assange and Truth: the Deeper (Harder) Issue

338-Assange Is A Journalist, Should Not Be Persecuted For Publishing The Truth

339-CIA Whistleblower Ray McGovern Brutally Assaulted by Police at Haspel Hearing

340-Moreno: Assange Can Remain At Embassy, So Long As He Doesn’t Practice Journalism

341-The Eerie Silence Surrounding the Assange Case

342-The Guardian Publishes Smear Against Isolated, Arbitrarily Confined Journalist Julian Assange

343-The War on Assange Is a War on Press Freedom

344-'Strange disappearance' of WikiLeaks consultant in Norway   WikiLeaks has raised concern after Arjen Kamphuis, an associate of founder Julian Assange, went missing in Norway. The cybersecurity expert was last seen in northern Norway on August 20.

345-BREAKING: WikiLeaks Founder Found Dead

346-New York Times ramps up smear campaign against Julian Assange

347-ON CONTACT: CRUCIFYING JULIAN ASSANGE (YouTube)

348-Assange And Manning Sacrifice Their Freedom For Our Right To Know

349-Assange’s ‘Conspiracy’ to Expose War Crimes Has Already Been Punished

350-Chelsea Manning Again Takes Fall for Defending Public’s Right to Know

351-Chelsea Manning and the New Inquisition

352-Civil liberties groups condemn the Trump admin’s indictment of Julian Assange

353-Explained: Why Julian Assange & Chelsea Manning hold key to Free Press

354-FALSE STATEMENTS AND DEFAMATIONS CONCERNING JULIAN ASSANGE AND WIKILEAKS

355-Julian Assange Arrested, Take Action Now

356-Manning and Assange: Don’t Let Them Become Martyrs

357-Politicians Silent on Chelsea Manning’s Imprisonment on Trans Day of Visibility

358-The 7 years of lies about Assange won’t stop now

359-The Martyrdom of Julian Assange  by Chris Hedges

360-The Psychology Of Getting Julian Assange, Part 1: What’s Torture Got To Do With It?

361-The Psychology Of Getting Julian Assange, Part 2: The Court Of Public Opinion And The Blood-Curdling Untold Story  In her ongoing special investigation into the detention of Julian Assange, Dr Lissa Johnson turns to the art of smear, and how to corrupt a judicial system.

362-The Psychology of Getting Julian Assange, Part 3 – Wikileaks and Russiagate: Trust Us, We’re The CIA

363-The Psychology Of Getting Julian Assange, Part 4: Why Even Some Lefties Want To See Him Hang

364-The Psychology Of Getting Julian Assange, Part 5: War Propaganda 101

365-Requiem for the Fourth Estate

366-The full story of the rape charges against Julian Assange of Wikileaks, a possible covert op

367-Tucker Carlson puts Assange’s deeds and arrest in perspective [Video]  Tucker Carlson stands almost alone in telling the truth about Julian Assange, both what he did – and did not do.

368-UK media, MPs unveil latest Assange deception

369-UN experts warn Assange arrest exposes him to risk of serious human rights violations

370-Unsealed documents shed light on state conspiracy against Chelsea Manning

371-Why Your Hatred Of Assange Is Completely Irrelevant

373-The WikiLeaks Case: Democracy Dies in Empire

374-Julian Assange Is Guilty Of Only One Thing: Revealing The Evil Soul Of US Imperialism

375-Sex, Lies And Julian Assange - Documentary Film

376-British judge jails Assange indefinitely, despite end of prison sentence

377-'I Felt Americans Needed to Know': Insurance Industry Whistleblower Gives Glimpse of Effort to Crush Medicare for All

378-The man whose state surveillance revelations rocked the world speaks exclusively to the Guardian about his new life and concerns for the future

379-‘A 1950s show trial’: John Pilger describes ‘disgraceful’ courtroom treatment of Julian Assange by UK judge

380-‘I can’t think properly’: Assange fights back tears and struggles to say own name as he appears in court over US extradition

381-‘Slow, cruel assassination’: Mother blasts US & UK for treatment of Assange

382-‘Utterly despicable’: Galloway on Sweden’s decision to reopen Assange rape case

383-“Please Save My Life”: Julian Assange In Prison

384-18 Ways Julian Assange Changed the World

385-40 rebuttals to the media’s smears of Julian Assange – by someone who was actually there

386-Amnesty International declares Julian Assange “not a prisoner of conscience”

387-Amnesty International Hangs Julian Assange Out to Dry — or Possibly Just Hang

388-Appeals court won’t release Chelsea Manning from jail in Julian Assange case

389-Assange Displayed Signs of Torture in Courtroom Farce

390-Assange Indictment: A Threat to the Foundation of US Democracy?

391-Assange is being prosecuted for ‘exposing the crimes of empire’, says award winning journalist

392-Assange subjected to torture & violations of due process rights – UN envoy

393-Assange wins EU journalism award while behind bars  (YouTube)

394-Avoiding Assange

395-BBC, Sky News Have Hidden Their Interviews With UN Expert On The Torture Of Assange

396-Breaking The Media Blackout on the Imprisonment of Julian Assange  (YouTube)

397-British judge jails Assange indefinitely, despite end of prison sentence

398-Chelsea Manning Back in Prison After Refusing to Testify

399-Chelsea Manning's Statement on Release from Jail and Second Grand Jury Subpoena (YouTube)

400-CNN peddles intelligence agencies’ lies against Assange

401-Daniel Ellsberg on Julian Assange’s Espionage Charges

402-Debunking The “Assange Is A Russian Agent” Smears

403-DNC Playing Dirty Tricks on WikiLeaks

404-DOJ accuses Assange of violating Espionage Act

405-Drone Warfare Activist Daniel Hale Facing 50 Years For Whistleblowing

406-Ecuador is raking in new deals with the UK and US after handing over Julian Assange

407-Few documents, many mysteries. How our FOIA case is unveiling the questionable handling of the Julian Assange case

408-Freedom Rider: The “Resistance” is Silent on Julian Assange

409-Suzie Dawson – Freeing Julian Assange: Part One

410-He Filmed The Death Of Eric Garner. Now He’s Getting Ready To Spend 4 Years In Prison.   Ramsey Orta, who says he’s still haunted by Garner’s death, thinks the NYPD is out for revenge.

411-How Judges Kill: Sealing Corporate Records Showing Destructive Behavior Based on Dubious “Trade Secret” Claims

412-How Many Times Must Assange Be Proven Right Before People Start Listening?

413-I've known Julian Assange for 10 Years. His Confinement and Arrest are a Scandal

414-John Pilger warns: “Do not forget Assange. Or you will lose him”

415-Julian Assange exposed the crimes of powerful actors, including Israel

416-Julian Assange fights back tears and describes living 'in fear' during court appearance over extradition case

417-Julian Assange showing symptoms of psychological torture and should not be extradited to US, says UN official

418-Julian Assange Writes A Letter To Supporters From British Prison, Here Is What He Said

419-Julian Assange deserves a Medal of Freedom, not a secret indictment

420-The $4.2 Billion Man: Ecuador’s Betrayal of Julian Assange Reeks of Corruption

421-Julian Assange’s extraordinary record of investigative journalism

422-Lone US senator decries use of Espionage Act against Assange as establishment keeps mum

423-Media dead silent as Wikileaks insider explodes the myths around Julian Assange

424-‘Mirthless Laugh’ - The Persecution And Torture Of Julian Assange

425-New CNN Assange Smear Piece Is Amazingly Dishonest, Even For CNN

426-Only Cowards And Sadists Support The Persecution Of Assange

427-‘Nothing!’ Media refuse to cover Roger Waters concert in support of Julian Assange

428-After Assange’s Espionage Act Indictment, Police Move Against More Journalists for Publishing Classified Material

429-After Exposing 'Corrupted' Brazilian Government, Journalist Glenn Greenwald Faces Deportation Warning and Death Threats

430-CNN Retracts Pedophile Claim Against Assange After Wikileaks Threatens Lawsuit   “An analyst on our air earlier today asserted that Julian Assange was a pedophile, and regrets saying it. In fact, CNN has no evidence to support that assertion.”

431-Don’t Be Fooled: Media Still Selling Out Assange

432-Former Newspaper Editor Who Exposed CIA Found Dead

433-Macron pursuing journalists who exposed French complicity in possible Saudi war crimes in Yemen

434-Manning to Judge on Whistleblowers, Freedom of the Press, and Civil Rights

435-More Police Raids As War On Journalism Escalates Worldwide

436-The Guardian's War on AssangeThe Guardian's war on Assange

437-UN official’s briefing on torture of Assange boycotted by US media

438-Professional Assange Smearers Finally Realize His Fate Is Tied To Theirs

439-Roger Waters And John Pilger Make Powerful Defence Of Julian Assange In London

441-Snowden Archives At Great Risk—As Alarming As Assange’s Arrest

442-Snowden rips MSM & US politicians for hypocrisy in ‘supporting whistleblowers’

443-Julian Assange Must Never Be Extradited  The second indictment of the Wikileaks co-founder seems designed to force the British to deny extradition. If not, it’s madness

444-The Assange Poop Smear Was Concocted to Cover Ecuador’s $4.2 B IMF Loan   The truth is at once less and more squalid than the Assange poop story. Ecuador, once among the Latin American “pink tide” nations, since Moreno came into power has been making fast strides towards neoliberalizing its economy. That means cozying up to the U.S.

445-The Fabricated Charges Against Assange Reveal Our Continued Drift Towards Tyranny

446-The Just World Fallacy: Why People Bash Assange And Defend Power

447-The Making of a “Rapist”, by Pamela Anderson

448-The Slandering Of Assange Reveals The Sociopathic Workings Of The Empire’s Propaganda Machine

449-The Slow Assassination of a Journalist: Julian Assange

450-The vindictive campaign against Chelsea Manning, America’s political prisoner

451-Timeline: Julian Assange’s Expulsion & Arrest

452-UN expert criticizes States for ‘ganging up’ on Wikileaks’ Assange; warns against extradition, fearing ‘serious’ rights violations

453-US federal court exposes Democratic Party conspiracy against Assange and WikiLeaks

454-175 yrs in jail for revealing war crimes? Where's MSM outrage over persecution of Assange?

455-Whistleblower Matt DeHart To Be Released From Prison In October

456-Why Julian Assange’s War is Our War Too

457-Wikileaks Proves Primary Was Rigged: DNC Undermined Democracy

458-‘All of us are in danger’: John Pilger delivers warning from Julian Assange  (YouTube)

459-A massive scandal: how Assange, his doctors, lawyers and visitors were all spied on for the U.S.

460-Amnesty International’s Troubling Collaboration with UK & US Intelligence    Some troubling connections contradict Amnesty’s image as a benevolent defender of human rights and reveal key figures at the organization during its early years to be less concerned with human dignity and more concerned with the dignity of the US and UK’s image in the world.

461-Assange and Manning are Being Persecuted for Speaking Truth to Power

462-Australian investigative journalist exposes Guardian/New York Times betrayal of Assange

463-Britain obstructs Spanish investigation into CIA spying on Julian Assange

464-Assange can't view evidence, court told

465-Hacker who helped expose Ohio rape case pleads guilty, faces more prison time than rapists

466-Doctors Issue Urgent Australian Appeal to Save Julian Assange

467-Edward Snowden Sets the Record Straight

468-Federal judge rules US government is entitled to seize proceeds from Edward Snowden’s book sales and speaking fees

469-Groundswell Of Support For WikiLeaks Publisher Julian Assange 

470-In Defense of Julian Assange (a book)

471-John Pilger: The Lies About Julian Assange Must Stop Now    The media, for selfish reasons, may finally be waking up to the consequences of their malign smears and misrepresentation of Julian Assange.

472-JOHN PILGER: Visiting Britain’s Political Prisoner

473-Judge grants government rights to proceeds from Snowden book, speeches

474-Julian Assange denied access to lawyers and vital evidence in US extradition case

475-Julian Assange: "Nearly every war has been a result of media lies"  (YouTube)

476-Julian Assange’s judge and her husband’s links to the British military establishment exposed by WikiLeaks

477-Lecture: The Case Against WikiLeaks: a direct threat to our community

478-NATO Auditor Who Discovered US Funds ISIS Found Murdered

479-New WikiLeaks Bombshell: 20 Inspectors Dissent from Syria Chemical Attack Narrative. Leaked Documents and Emails of OPCW

480-Propaganda Narratives Are Custom-Made For Each Ideological Echo Chamber   ("...support for WikiLeaks and Julian Assange has been eroded all across the political spectrum since 2016 by the establishment smear campaign.")

481-Roger Waters on Julian Assange: UK's National Security State Doesn't Care About the Law! (YouTube)

482-SILENCED - Whistleblower Documentary w. Thomas Andrew Drake, Jesselyn Raddack + James Spione   (YouTube)

483-The Annihilation of Julian Assange

484-Love him or hate him or simply don't care, Julian Assange's fight for freedom concerns us all

485-The rising support for Julian Assange

486-The Metadata Trap   The Trump Administration Is Using the Full Power of the U.S. Surveillance State Against Whistleblowers

487-Top CDC Health and Climate Scientist Files Whistleblower Complaint   He’s one of several federal scientists working on climate change who say they have been silenced, sidelined or demoted under the Trump administration.

488-UN Expert Calls Detention of Chelsea Manning 'Open-Ended, Progressively Severe, Coercive Measure Amounting to Torture'   In a letter to the U.S. government, the special rapporteur on torture called for the immediate release of the whistleblower.