By Marian Wang

After the lame duck session of Congress ended a few days before Christmas, watchdog groups were disappointed to learn that a bill expanding protections for government whistleblowers died in the Senate.

By William H. Freivogel

Is Jeffrey A. Sterling a whistleblower who revealed government ineptitude or a spy guilty of espionage? Is Sterling more like Daniel Ellsberg or Julian Assange?

The Justice Department portrays the 1992 Washington University law school graduate and one-time CIA agent as a lawbreaker. It arrested the O'Fallon, Mo. man Thursday on a 10-count indictment accusing him of violating the Espionage Act by leaking classified information to a newspaper reporter.

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On December 22nd, in the face of overwhelming bipartisan support, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act was killed at the last minute when a mystery Senator placed what’s called an anonymous hold on the bill. Tom Devine, of the Government Accountability Project, talks to us about the killing of the bill, and what you, the listener, can do about it. Click HERE to help us smoke out the mystery senator.