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Five Years After Snowden Blew the Whistle, The NSA Shutters Controversial Program

Program’s Shutdown Highlights Impact of Former Government Accountability Project Client On March 4th, The New York Times reported that the National Security Agency (NSA) had shut down a major data-collection program that had faced prolonged criticism over its expansive reach. In 2013, Edward Snowden, then an NSA contractor with Booz Allen, blew the whistle [...]

2019-03-15T15:18:05-04:00March 7th, 2019|Blog, National Security, Uncategorized, US Government|

Guest Blog: Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Protection Post-Digital Realty

This guest blog was written by Matt Stock and Jason Zuckerman [1]. As revealed in its 2018 Annual Report to Congress, the SEC Whistleblower Program has been successful in enhancing the SEC’s efforts to root out securities fraud and protect investors. In particular, whistleblower tips have enabled the SEC to recover more than $1.7 billion in [...]

2019-02-26T12:46:08-05:00February 21st, 2019|Uncategorized|

Government Accountability Project Mourns the Loss of Mickey Glazer

It is with great sadness that Government Accountability Project learned of the passing of Mickey Glazer. Dr. Glazer was a profound intellectual and author of one of the most groundbreaking books on whistleblowing ever written, The Whistleblowers: Exposing Corruption in Government and Industry. An academic, civic activist, and longtime friend of our organization, Dr. Glazer [...]

2019-02-11T13:47:30-05:00February 11th, 2019|Uncategorized|

Speaking Up for Science: New Support for Science Whistleblowers

At Government Accountability Project, we believe that truth deserves a champion. That is why, for more than 40 years, we have assisted over 8,000 whistleblowers, some of the most impactful being science professionals. Employees in diverse fields in both the public and private sector have exercised their integrity, and their voices, by raising the alarm [...]

2023-07-17T10:44:09-04:00February 11th, 2019|Meltdown, Pam McPherson, Scott Allen, Uncategorized|

White House Whistleblower Suspended After Complaint Goes Public

Tricia Newbold, who worked in the White House Security Office for 18 years, was suspended less than a week after NBC News reported on Newbold’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint against her boss, Carl Kline. The initial article, which was published on Jan. 24, focused on Kline and reports that he granted Jared Kushner top-secret level [...]

2019-02-05T12:42:33-05:00February 5th, 2019|Uncategorized|

From Ünker to Khashoggi, Regimes Crack Down on Journalists

Gabrielle Simeck, January 14, 2019 Last Tuesday, Turkish journalist, Pelin Ünker, was sentenced to 13 months in prison. Her crime: doing her job. In 2017, Ünker reported that Binali Yıldırım, former Prime Minister of Turkey and current speaker of the national assembly, and his sons owned five offshore companies in Malta. Ünker’s story was one of many [...]

2019-03-06T15:24:59-05:00January 14th, 2019|Uncategorized|

UN Must Protect WIPO Whistleblower Against Retaliation

In September 2018, the US State Department reported to the Congressional Appropriations Committees that the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a Specialized Agency of the United Nations (UN) System, lacks best-practice whistleblower protections. The case of whistleblower Wei Lei featured prominently in that report. Lei’s experience as a UN staff member on the receiving end of continuing [...]

2018-11-13T13:25:46-05:00November 9th, 2018|Uncategorized, United Nations|

Khashoggi Murder Proves Actions Speak Louder Than Words in Saudi Arabia

New whistleblower protection laws prove toothless  The disappearance and presumed murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a leading critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, highlights the enormous risk Saudi whistleblowers take when exercising “free” speech. As international watchdogs shine a spotlight  on Saudi Arabia’s supposed reforms in the midst of this appalling affront to free speech, it [...]

2018-11-16T13:51:07-05:00October 17th, 2018|Uncategorized|

The Power of One: Multiplied by the Rest of Us

The Government Accountability Project began 40 years ago as an effort to change the culture of the United States surrounding the topic of whistleblowing. We saw whistleblowers as courageous heroes and patriots while the nation’s culture was mired in the notion that they were merely “finks,” “tattletales” and “snitches.” We have certainly succeeded in changing [...]

2018-11-13T13:25:47-05:00October 5th, 2018|Uncategorized|

Urgent Action Requested: Sign the Petition Below

We are counting on you to stand with us and sign a letter urging Congress and President Trump to update the most critical whistleblower legal rights in the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act. We ask for you to support the completion of the landmark, 13-year legislative effort to restore credible whistleblower rights for government employees that [...]

2020-07-10T12:05:50-04:00September 24th, 2018|Uncategorized|