Chip Gibbons, policy director for Defending Rights and Dissent, joins host Kevin Gosztola for to further discuss the case against CIA analyst Asif Rahman, who was sentenced to three years and a month in prison. Gibbons reported on the sentencing for The Dissenter.

Headlines for this edition include a Boeing whistleblower warning of Dreamliner problems prior to the Air India crash that killed 241 people and San Francisco police detaining two student journalists covering ICE protests—twice.

Host Kevin Gosztola discusses the FBI sting operation that led to the arrest of a Defense Intelligence Agency employee, who allegedly agreed to trade state secrets for citizenship in Germany because he opposes President Donald Trump's agenda. Headlines for this edition include an Australia appeals court rejecting Australia war crimes whistleblower's David McBride challenge to his prison sentence and the Nevada Supreme Court effectively ruling that police may not sue Nevada residents over records requests.

Host Kevin Gosztola is joined by Andy Lee Roth, a Project Censored editor at large, for a conversation about Big Tech algorithms and how they determine what content we see. Andy goes on to share the work he has been doing on algorithmic literacy for the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri.

Headlines include Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard firing intelligence officials for releasing a bombshell memo and a police whistleblower in Nashville, Tennessee, facing criminal charges in retaliation for exposing corruption.

Host Kevin Gosztola marks President Donald Trump's first 100 days in his second term. He is joined by two guests from the Freedom of the Press Foundation —Seth Stern, the advocacy director, and Lauren Harper, the Daniel Ellsberg chair on government secrecy.

Seth assesses the daily attacks on press freedom that occurred, and Lauren describes several alarming developments related to the public's access to government information. They both discuss what is being done to fight back and how they feel about the effectiveness of this resistance thus far.

Host Kevin Gosztola highlights the case of Tesla whistleblower Cristina Balan. She recently won an appeal against Tesla and the company's CEO Elon Musk. This victory in her legal battle could lead to a trial where Musk testifies in court.

Headlines include Israeli military strike killing Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassouna and a U.S. judge signaling that he's open to the Trump White House excluding not just the Associated Press but all newswire services from the White House press pool.

Host Kevin Gosztola highlights the crisis that is growing as offices that are supposed to fulfill Freedom of Information Act requests are dismantled or significantly impaired. He features a few clips from a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on FOIA reform that was held on April 8. Headlines include Israeli military forces attacking a media tent in Gaza and the Homeland Security Department administering lie detector tests as part of a clampdown on alleged leaks.

In this edition of "The Dissenter Weekly," host Kevin Gosztola focuses on the unbelievable claim put forward by Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg that whistleblower retaliation at Boeing is entirely a thing of the past.

Headlines include the disbanding of public records teams at the Health and Human Services Department and a watchdog group warning EPA employees not to use the newly installed free WiFi.

Host Kevin Gosztola focuses on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents abducting Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk in Massachusetts and how standing up for Ozturk is important to freedom of the press.

Headlines include several positive developments, like the state of Idaho signing a journalism shield bill into law and the United States Supreme Court refusing to hear an anti-press lawsuit brought by Las Vegas casino tycoon Steve Wynn.