Il est quand même curieux de prendre les Etats-Unis de Obama (qui a poursuivi en justice plus de whistleblowers que tous ses prédécesseurs réunis) et autres ALEC (▻http://seenthis.net/sites/229573) comme exemple en matière de #lanceurs_d'alerte.
Justement, le journaliste du « New York Times » Mark Mazzetti chez « Democracy Now ! » :
AMY GOODMAN: And you, as a reporter, Mark—we see the greatest crackdown on whistleblowers that we have ever seen under any president : President Obama’s administration is going after more whistleblowers than all presidential administrations combined in the past. And the role of journalists, how do you feel, as you try to cover these issues? Do you feel the crackdown?
MARK MAZZETTI: It’s harder. There’s no question. It’s harder and harder. People are—this crackdown has perhaps had its intended effect, which was maybe not to go prosecute the cases that have been brought, but also to scare others into not talking. And so, I find that in the last couple years covering national security issues, you just find people who were perhaps once more eager to talk or willing to talk, for reasons that—not just because they were whistleblowers, but because they thought it was important for reporters to have context and information about some of these operations—those people are increasingly less likely to talk.
