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Today, Government Accountability Project filed an amicus brief urging the D.C. Court of Appeals to reject a recent Department of Justice (DOJ) motion seeking to remove Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger from office. The DOJ motion would have undermined the independence of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), the federal agency tasked with maintaining transparency and accountability in the civil service, including protecting whistleblowers from retaliation for exposing government waste, fraud, and abuse.
Whistleblower Disclosure Exposes Unlawful Conditions at Torrance County Detention Facility
Government Accountability Project sent a letter on behalf of whistleblowers exposing unlawful conditions and operations at Torrance County Detention Facility, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in New Mexico.
Government Accountability Project Urges Supreme Court to Protect Independent Oversight in Defense of Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger
Government Accountability Project voices unequivocal support for Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger’s right to continue serving in his appointed role at the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) and urges the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold critical legal protections for independent watchdogs.
New York Times: Voice of America Journalists Face Investigations for Trump Comments
The broadcaster placed a longtime journalist on leave amid growing concerns about its editorial independence.
The Washingtonian: What Federal Workers Considering Whistleblowing Should Know
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CBS News: Case surge from fired federal workers jams federal board
A bubble is quickly forming inside the obscure but powerful U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, which handles appeals from federal workers who have been terminated or allege they were victims of prohibited actions by their employers. A CBS News review of agency records shows the board has experienced a surge in new cases amid the torrent of layoffs by the Trump administration.
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Government Accountability Project
Statement of Retraction
Government Accountability Project and the co-authors Tom Devine, Samantha Feinstein and John Kolar (hereafter “the retractors”) of Chapter 15 of the book entitled, “The Routledge Handbook of Public Procurement Corruption,” published in April 2024, hereby retracts the “Case Study of Nurse Wooten” in its entirety and all of its content that may appear elsewhere in said publication or reviews and promotions thereof concerning Dr. Mahendra Amin. By this retraction, the retractors intend to fully and completely make the retractions he has demanded through his attorneys. After further review of all available press reports, information and judicial opinions, and upon his written demand, the retractors apologize to Dr. Mahendra Amin and state that they should not have relied upon and cannot now rely upon derogatory materials that the retractors cited, quoted or otherwise stated in the publications named in said written demand. The retractors retract without qualification all statements made by them that were critical of Dr. Mahendra Amin, including statements that he committed medical neglect, performed unnecessary gynecological procedures or mass hysterectomies on women detained at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility at Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia, and including any inferences that he was a “uterus collector”, as well as any and all other statements that impugned his professional conduct or character. The retractors will not promote or republish any such information on its website or in any of its printed materials and have removed therefrom the statements subject to the written retraction demand. The retractors will request that the publisher, Taylor & Francis, Inc., post unconditional retractions in all known written and electronically published material made or repeated by the retractors.
