[IP] YouTube for Whistleblowing?
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Malin, Bradley A" <b.malin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 3, 2006 11:37:55 AM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: YouTube for Whistleblowing?
Dave, it's a couple of days old. First YouTube was brought into the
policy arena by the RIAA, now we have potential whistleblowing issues
afoot.
-brad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/28/
AR2006082801293.html
By Griff Witte
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 29, 2006; Page D01
Michael De Kort was frustrated.
The 41-year-old Lockheed Martin engineer had complained to his
bosses. He had told his story to government investigators. He had
called congressmen.
But when no one seemed to be stepping up to correct what he saw as
critical security flaws in a fleet of refurbished Coast Guard patrol
boats, De Kort did just about the only thing left he could think of
to get action: He made a video and posted it on YouTube.com.
"What I am going to tell you is going to seem preposterous," De Kort
solemnly tells viewers near the outset of the 10-minute clip. Posted
three weeks ago, the video describes what De Kort says are blind
spots in the ship's security cameras, equipment that malfunctions in
cold weather and other problems. "It may be very hard for you to
believe that our government and the largest defense contractor in the
world [are] capable of such alarming incompetence and can make
ethical compromises as glaring as what I am going to describe." In
response to De Kort's charges, a Coast Guard spokeswoman said the
service has "taken the appropriate level of action." A spokeswoman
for the contractors said the allegations were without merit.
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The video can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd3VV8Za04g
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