Looks like the Pentagon may have itself to blame for its cyber recruiting troubles This podcast features our Legal Director Tom Devine and was originally published here. The Defense Department Inspector General said the Pentagon’s bureaucracy is getting in the way of hiring the cyber employees the military needs. In a recent report, the DoD IG found [...]
Federal employees have some of the worst whistleblower protections in the country, advocates say This article features our Legal Director Tom Devine and Deputy Director of Legislation Irvin McCullough and was originally published here. Whistleblower advocates are hopeful 2021 is the year they can make stronger protections for federal employees a reality. And they believe [...]
Whistleblowers: Depression plagues migrant children in border camp This article features Government Accountability Project and our client Arthur Pearlstein and was originally published here. Unaccompanied migrant children detained in the U.S. Fort Bliss Army base in Texas live in poor mental and physical conditions, according to a whistleblower complaint submitted to Congress and government watchdogs on Wednesday. Why it [...]
Op-Ed: Chaos at Fort Bliss Refugee Camp This article features our clients Arthur Pearlstein and Lauren Reinhold and was originally published here. One would think that $1,000,000,000 paid to contractors would result in gold-star treatment! But it didn’t. This bottomless pit of taxpayer-dollar-at-waste paid for “organizational chaos.” Both reports I read described the living conditions [...]
Federal contractor raises allegations of sexual misconduct at Fort Bliss facility: report This article features our clients Arthur Pearlstein and Lauren Reinhold and was originally published here. A federal contractor at a facility housing unaccompanied minors in Fort Bliss, Texas, allegedly said staff members were engaging in inappropriate sexual conduct with minors in the shelter, according [...]
Whistleblowers at Border Shelter Say They Were Told to ‘Downplay’ COVID Outbreak Among Kids This article features our clients Arthur Pearlstein and Lauren Reinhold and was originally published here. Two more whistleblowers have come forward to allege that children were mistreated by contractors and senior federal employee managers at a Department Health and Human Services [...]
Federal officials made ‘every effort’ to downplay a COVID-19 outbreak at a migrant children facility earlier this year, warning ‘politics will take over,’ whistleblowers say This article features Government Accountability Project and our clients Arthur Pearlstein and Lauren Reinhold and was originally published here. Federal officials tried to downplay a COVID-19 outbreak at a child [...]
Two Federal Whistleblowers Reveal HHS Instructions to Downplay Fort Bliss’ Migrant Children COVID-19 Outbreak This article features Government Accountability Project and our clients Arthur Pearlstein and Lauren Reinhold and was originally published here. After serving as volunteers at a facility in Fort Bliss, two federal whistleblowers filed a complaint and allegedly claimed that the Department [...]
Whistleblowers Allege Cover-Up of COVID Outbreak at Facility for Illegal Minors This article features Government Accountability Project and our clients Arthur Pearlstein and Lauren Reinhold and was originally published here. Volunteers who served at a detention facility for underaged illegal aliens blew the whistle on Wednesday about an alleged plot to cover up the true [...]
Biden admin ordered employees to downplay COVID cases in migrant children at Texas border facility: whistleblowers This article features Government Accountability Project and our clients Arthur Pearlstein and Lauren Reinhold and was originally published here. Two whistleblowers have accused Biden's Department of Health and Human Services of directing them to downplay the severity of a [...]