State Dept clamping down on free speech (whistleblowing)?

State Department Clamping Down on Speaking to Congress or Press?

Written into the revised State Department regulation is the threat that an employee or former employee speaking to Congress or the press outside the policy could be fired and criminally prosecuted. “Noncompliance may result in disciplinary action, criminal prosecution and/or civil liability,” reads one section.

Hmm. Trying to cover up more Clinton mistakes?

Bakers gagged by BOLI

Sorry, Slate: Oregon Did Put a ‘Gag Order’ on Those Christian Bakers

In other words: The Kleins are, yes, “gagged” legally from saying much more, if anything, about their case. Because what they said about their case before—even though they didn’t talk about future decisions about gay couples and wedding cakes—apparently counts as “a clear intent to discriminate in the future.”

Gallup writes: The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment

http://www.gallup.com/opinion/chairman/181469/big-lie-unemployment.aspx

None of them will tell you this: If you, a family member or anyone is unemployed and has subsequently given up on finding a job — if you are so hopelessly out of work that you’ve stopped looking over the past four weeks — the Department of Labor doesn’t count you as unemployed.

More people should learn this basic fact, but no big news service (ABC, NBC, or CBS) will report it.