Washington Unprecedented War on Whistleblowers ~ Daniel Sheehan

Pentagon Paper's Lawyer Daniel Sheehan: Political climate more dangerous than ever for whistleblowers






Daniel Sheehan, JD is a graduate of Harvard Law School, and a Professor of World Politics at the University of California.  Mr. Sheehan has a long and distinguished history in public service. He co-founded of the Christic Institute which was directly responsible for investigating the unconstitutional conduct of George Bush, along with senior and numerous members of his administration in the Iran/Contra scandal during the 1980s. 

In 1994 Dan defended Dr. John Mack before a review panel of the Harvard Medical School in the wake of Mack's book Abduction: Human Encounters With Aliens.  This was not his first, nor his last, encounter with the important issue of extraterrestrial-related phenomena.  In 1977, while general counsel to the United States Jesuit Office of Social Ministry in Washington, DC., he served as a special consultant to the United States Library of Congress Congressional Research Office Project on Extraterrestrial Intelligence ordered by President Jimmy Carter. In this capacity, he was given access not only to the classified portions of the United States Air Force's infamous "Project Blue Book" files but to the confidential report prepared for the Science & Technology Committee of the United States Congress by the Library of Congress Congressional Research Office pursuant to this Presidential assignment.  What he saw changed his life.

"During my thirty years in the field of public interest law and public policy, I have supervised professional investigations into the illegal smuggling of weapons-grade plutonium, the illegal supply of arms to terrorist organizations by covert operations and government agents, and into ultra-"black" weapons programs unknown even to the most trusted congressional officials.  I have come to believe that keeping weapons out of interplanetary space is the most important contribution we can make to the future of this planet.  The time to begin this task is now."