Note: this article, featuring our Legal Director Tom Devine, was originally published here. American Whistleblowers, Inside And Outside The System An open letter from more than 100 former national security officials applauds the “responsible whistleblower” who came forward with information about President Trump’s Ukraine dealings. While the identity of the whistleblower is unknown, “we do know that [...]
Note: this interview, featuring our Director of Education and Senior Counsel Dana Gold, was originally published here. Political Interference in the Whistleblower Disclosure Process Is Horrifying CounterSpin interview with Dana Gold on whistleblower protection Janine Jackson: The New York Timesstands by its decision to publishidentifying details about the whistleblower at the center of Donald Trumps power-abusing call with the [...]
This podcast, featuring our Legal Director Tom Devine, was originally published here. Go and Get Yourself a Whistle and Blow Ever present in the Snowden and Manning era, the word "whistleblower" is again dominating the airwaves. But where exactly did the word come from? Who gets to decide who qualifies as a whistleblower? Back in 2015, [...]
Note: this article, written by our Dana Gold and Irvin McCullough, was originally published here. Internal DHS and Ice Immigration Detention Practices Are Broken This month’s damning report from the agency’s own inspector general, which rebuked ICE’s detention practices, including placing immigrants in solitary confinement, is an accountability decoy. In fact, the report only scratches the surface [...]
Memories of Ernie Fitzgerald A Memorial from Government Accountability Projects Legal Director, Tom Devine This note is to give credit to the man who molded my vision for activism during the last 40 years and my work with over 7,000 whistleblowers. Ernie Fitzgerald recently died, but his legacy has taken root in a legal and [...]
Read the original article here If not taken forward in the right way, this legislation could shrink freedom of speech, rather than expand it, hence the high stakes of these ongoing political battles. My hope is that the political compromises which will have to be made, do not weaken protection against retaliatory action and the right [...]
James Kidney started as an attorney at the Security Exchange Commission (SEC) in 1986. On his first day, he was given a single-spaced 48-page action memo filled with complaints that needed to be investigated. He didnt have an office, so he was given a cart for his files. The cart steadily filled up as he [...]
CSPW has been following with great interest the ups and downs, ins and outs of the long and arduous pathway 21 youth plaintiffs have been trekking for three years, in a sustained effort to see their legal case against the US government be tried in court. We last wrote about this in December 2016: Why Are [...]
Nearly three dozen nuclear power plants are inadequately protected against major flooding guaranteed to occur after an upstream dam failure – flooding that could easily lead to an accident or meltdown on the scale of the 2011 nuclear power disaster in Fukushima, Japan. Yet, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) – the federal agency responsible for [...]
By Anne Polansky and Michael Termini More than one full year into a Donald Trump presidency, we are taking stock of the new political landscape, already marked by turmoil and volatility. Never before in modern US history have we seen such instability and unreliability in basic governance at the federal level. Here in the nation’s [...]
