Note: this article, featuring our client Jeffrey Missal, was originally published here. Fired Whistleblower Gets His Job Back An Obama-era whistleblower, investigated and fired after raising red flags about violations for offshore drilling plans in the Arctic, has been granted his job back, the Office of Special Counsel disclosed yesterday. A settlement with the [...]
Note: this article, featuring our Legal Director Tom Devine, was originally published here. With Appeals Board Hamstrung, Congress Declines to Intervene on Behalf of Whistleblowers Facing Discipline Inaction comes as MSPB lacks board members and many feds say impeachment proceedings have left them less likely to report wrongdoing. ongress this week declined to intervene on [...]
Note: this podcast, featuring our Director of Education and Senior Counsel Dana Gold, was originally published here. Episode 6: Filling the Whistleblower GAP with Dana Gold Many times we see an organization, but we don't see the "people" behind it who give it life. The Government Accountability Project is a non-profit organization of attorneys and [...]
Note: this article, featuring our Legal Director Tom Devine, was originally published here. Whistleblowers Have Played a Role Throughout History No matter how much U.S. President Donald Trump and his Republican acolytes rant and rave about the CIA whistleblower or attempt to impugn their motives for raising an alarm about Trumps brazen efforts to coerce [...]
Note: this article, featuring our Senior Counsel and Director of Education Dana Gold, was originally published here. An Effort to Improve Scientific Integrity in the Federal Government A bill introduced this year could protect government scientists and their research, but it faces hurdles to become law. IN SEPTEMBER, after Hurricane Dorian pummeled the Bahamas, it barreled [...]
Note: this article, featuring our client Robert MacLean and our Legal Director Tom Devine, was originally published here. Trump Wants the Whistleblower Revealed. Others Push for More Protection. When President Trump threatened the whistleblower in the Ukraine matter, it sent a tremor through federal employees across the government. When Republican members of Congress repeatedly attempted to out that [...]
Note: this article, featuring Government Accountability Project, was originally published here. Lexicon of Impeachment: The Words That Will Determine Trump's Fate The inquiry into the presidents Ukraine dealings have thrown up a range of terms and phrases. We break them down for you. The televised impeachment hearings into the Trump-Ukraine scandal are introducing a handful of words [...]
This article, featuring Government Accountability Project, was originally published here. In Praise of Whistleblowers While corporate media spread distraction and propaganda, whistleblowers step up to reveal abuses of power the public has a right to know. In their new book, United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (And What We Can Do About It ), [...]
Note: this article, featuring Government Accountability Project, was originally published here. ‘America’s Most Famous Whistleblower’ Inspired Legal Protections. They’re Too Weak. Retaliation is still common, especially for intelligence community whistleblowers The man once known as “America’s most famous whistleblower” had few protections when he first spoke up about major Pentagon cost overruns in the late 1960s. There [...]
This article, written by our client Thomas Tamm and featuring Government Accountability Project, was originally published here. Advice For My Fellow Whistle-blowers At the time, I did not consider myself a whistle-blower. If I thought about the concept at all, it was in the context of corporate malfeasance. I was a member of the law [...]