| BRAVEHEARTS Whistle-Blowing in the Age of Snowden Mark Hertsgaard New York: Hot Books, May 2016 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-5007-0337-7 | ||||
| ISBN 1-5007-0337-3 | 164pp. | HC | $21.99 | |
| Page 39: | "...as such, his responsibilities included supervising the whistle-blower office at DoD, as well as handling all whistle-blower allegations within the DoD, including from the NSA and other intelligence agencies." |
| Perhaps I misunderstand, but I think these intelligence agencies are not part of the Department of Defense. |
| Page 60: | "The organization helped whistle-blowers defeat some of the most powerful bureaucracies (e.g. the US Department of Defense) and politically connected corporations (e.g. Bechtel) on earth..." |
| Capitalization: S/B "on Earth". |
| Page 76: | "GAP and Telleen's revelations—especially once amplified by 60 Minutes—led to wholesales changes..." |
| Typo: S/B "wholesale changes". |
| Page 80: | "It further advised, in the name of balance, give equal time to both major parties." |
| Verb case: S/B "giving". |
| Page 81: | "...Hoffman told me, 'If you went through the paper and stamped every story whether it was 2 degrees, 5 degrees or 360 degrees [off the center of the debate], you would see a lot of 2 degree stories.' " |
| Presumably Hoffman is quoted accurately, but he obviously meant "or 180 degrees." |
| Pages 125-7: | Jeffrey Sterling, an African-American case officer, charged the CIA with racial discrimination in 2001 when he was passed over for promotion. A month later, the 9/11 attacks happened and Sterling, a gung-ho type, dropped the charges so he could return to work. "Instead, the agency fired him..." He was sentenced to prison in May 2015 for allegedly passing secrets to James Risen. |
| If the CIA fired Sterling in 2001 or 2002, how could he have gotten the secrets they accused him of leaking in 2015? |
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