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A freelance journalist is suing the State Department to find out why Hillary Clinton’s lawyer was able to keep copies of her e-mails after they knew that some of the e-mails were classified. Journalist David Brown filed a Freedom of Information Act request in August for all records about the decision to allow the lawyer to retain a drive with 30,000 Clinton e-mails from the time she was Secretary of State. (Politico, September 8, 2015,

In asking a federal judge to dismiss a former employee’s lawsuit, a biotech firm claims that the employee does not qualify for whistleblower protection since he reported misconduct to his superiors and auditors rather than to the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) as required, the firm says, under the Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley Acts. (Courthouse News Service, September 8, 2015, by Nichols Iovino) The SEC filed an amicus brief in August backing the former Bio-Rad Technlogies  employee

Exile Edward Snowden was awarded a Norwegian free speech prize worth $12,000 for his release of telephone and Internet data of extensive spying by the U.S. National Security Agency. The award cited Snowden’s contribution in showing “how the electronic integrated information world can be a threat to personal integrity, and also might pose a threat against freedom of expression.” (The Nation, September 6, 2015, by the Deutsche Presse-Agentur) In accepting the prize, Snowden criticized the