National Security Whistleblowers Coalition/Dirty Dozen
 National Security Whistleblowers Coalition/Dirty Dozen  | |
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| Formation | 29 June 2006 |
| Membership | •  Hillary Clinton•  Mike DeWine•  David Dreier•  Dennis Hastert•  Orrin Hatch•  Peter Hoekstra•  Jon Kyl•  Joseph Lieberman•  Dutch Ruppersberger• Rick Santorum •  James Sensenbrenner•  Mark Souder |
Not to be confused with Sibel Edmonds' State Secrets Privilege Gallery.
The National Security Whistleblowers Coalition Dirty Dozen is a collection of US public officials chosen by Sibel Edmonds in late July 2006.
Origins
On 29 June 2006, The National Security Whistleblowers Coalition announced its Whistleblowers’ Dirty Dozen Campaign. She listed members of congress who "by their action or inaction, have stood against real investigations, hearings, and legislation dealing with government whistleblowers who have exposed waste, fraud, abuse, and or criminal activities within government agencies."[1][2]
Selection criteria
“This Dirty Dozen list could have easily been 60 or 70 people - unfortunately. It's a sad reflection on how bad things are in Congress. We had to limit the list to a number that we could manage, so we decided to keep it to a dozen people. These dozen people are at the top of our list because they have let us down the most - and also those who have been in the position to do something.”
Sibel Edmonds (30 July 2006) [3]
Known members
10 of the 12 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
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| Hillary Clinton | “Too big to jail” |
| Mike DeWine | In 2006, Sibel Edmonds named Mike DeWine as one of her "Dirty Dozen" |
| David Dreier | One of Sibel Edmonds' "Dirty Dozen" |
| Dennis Hastert | The longest serving republican speaker of the house. |
| Peter Hoekstra | |
| Jon Kyl | US lawyer whom Sibel Edmonds named as one of her "Dirty Dozen" |
| Joe Lieberman | Lawyer-Senator whom Sibel Edmonds named in 2006 as one of her "Dirty Dozen". |
| Dutch Ruppersberger | |
| James Sensenbrenner | One of Sibel Edmonds' "Dirty Dozen" |
| Mark Souder |
