Whistleblowing is the highest stakes, most significant expression of free speech. So, I’d like to share a dozen priority lessons learned that are summarized below.
iHeartPodcasts series "The Whistleblowers: Inside the Trump Administration," will be launching alongside Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump, the new book by Miles Taylor, best-selling author and former Trump administration official who authored the anonymous NYT op-ed.
IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 18, 2023 Whistleblowers Tell U.S. Senate About Continuing Mistreatment of Military Families in Privatized Housing Problems Exposed at Last Year’s Senate Hearing Remain Unresolved WASHINGTON – Today, three whistleblowers represented by Government Accountability Project testified that military families continue to be victimized by the private, for-profit contractor hired by the Department [...]
Voice of America: Whistleblower Files Complaint to Congress Over Twitter Suspending Journalists This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client, Steve Herman, and Government Accountability Project Of Counsel, David Seide, and was originally published here. Nearly a week after Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk said that the accounts of suspended journalists would be reinstated, [...]
Law & Crime: Senate Report Finds Thousands of Case Alleging Sexual Abuse of Women Behind Bars, Spanning Two-Thirds of US Prisons This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client, Linda De La Rosa and was originally published here. Previewing a hearing on Tuesday exploring sexual abuse against incarcerated women in the United States, Sen. Jon [...]
Notes From Underground: Season’s Greetings! Pipelines Leak! We Need Accountable Energy! By Adam Arnold, Environmental Counsel In 2022, we learned that humanity’s need for safe, reliable, accountable energy is still paramount. Or we should have – just like we should have in any of the forty or fifty years since the threat of anthropogenic [...]
ABC News: ICE Detainees at 1 Facility Appear to Have Undergone 'Excessive' Gynecological Procedures: Senate Report This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client claims and was originally published here. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees appear to have undergone "excessive, invasive, and often unnecessary gynecological procedures," at one of their privately managed facilities according [...]
Newsmax: Social Security Whistleblowers Claim Retaliation at Their Jobs This article features Government Accountability Project's legal director, Tom Devine and was originally published here. Two veteran attorneys in the Social Security Administration's inspector general's office who revealed a program imposing massive, unprecedented fees on both the poor and elderly told The Washington Post they are facing backlash from their [...]
Syracuse: Portraits of Courageous Defenders of Social and Environmental Justice at ArtRage Gallery This article features Government Accountability Project client Dawn Wooten and was originally published here. Robert Shetterly’s exhibition at the ArtRage Gallery draws from a long-term body of work, his “Americans Who Tell the Truth” series. Over the last 20 years, he’s created 265 paintings, [...]
Whistleblower Protections: A Nonpartisan Necessity This article was written by our Senior International Fellow Alain Norman and was originally published here. Whistleblowing—and the need to protect those who report misconduct—is as old as the republic itself. In 1777 the Continental Congress passed the first whistleblower protection act. Even today, members of the Foreign Service [...]