Grant Turner In 2020, Grant Turner, former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), along with fellow executives and impacted employees, stepped forward as whistleblowers to report abuses by political operatives installed at Voice of America, its sibling networks, and its oversight agency USAGM. While by law these networks must report news [...]
Maria Yovanovitch In November 2019, Maria Yovanovitch, former United States Ambassador to Ukraine, testified at former President Trump’s first impeachment hearing. She noted that Trump removed her from the position on the basis of false claims provided by associates of Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani, who at the time was attempting to persuade the Ukranian government into [...]
Anika Collier Navaroli Anika Navaroli, former senior policy expert for Twitter’s safety team, testified during public hearings of the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack regarding Twitter’s refusal to remove content fomenting and then foreseeably culminating in the violent January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol. Navaroli was awarded the Ridenhour Prize, which [...]
Ukraine Whistleblower On August 12, 2019, the anonymous “Ukraine Whistleblower” filed a complaint detailing the months-long effort by President Donald Trump and his lawyer Rudy Guiliani to influence the 2020 election by pressuring Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky to announce an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden, Trump’s main political rival in the 2020 election, [...]
John Elias John Elias, the former acting Chief of Staff to the Head of the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, blew the whistle on politically motivated investigations ordered by Attorney General William Barr. Elias reported that cases pursued “centered not on an antitrust analysis,” but due to the attorney general’s “personal dislike” and political differences with particular [...]
The Real War Dogs of Iraq This article was written by our Investigator Zack Kopplin and was originally published here. The first day on the job at the defense contractor DGC International involves an unusual orientation. In the contractor’s offices in McLean, Virginia, some new hires were asked to watch War Dogs, a 2016 blockbuster based [...]
CLARK: The Justice Dept’s Spying On Congress, Journalists To Find Leakers Is A Disturbing, Unconstitutional Development This op-ed was written by our Executive Director and CEO Louis Clark and was originally published here. During the winter of 2017, someone most likely within the White House or intelligence agencies released a classified document to the Washington [...]
#OurMothersToo: Reckoning With My Abuela’s Coerced Sterilization This article features our client Dawn Wooten and was originally published here. For as far back as my memory reaches, my grandmother, Obdulia Perez, had paper-thin skin with satiny wrinkles etched deep. She enjoyed bingo, cooking for her family and neighbors, writing poems in longhand, and reading the [...]
Central Bank of the UAE sets up whistleblowing channel to report misconduct This article features Government Accountability Project and was originally published here. The Central Bank of the UAE has set up a new whistleblowing portal allowing employees and other parties to report concerns about misconduct. The portal is "an encrypted channel that allows internal [...]
Strong Whistleblower Protections Must Be Included in the George Floyd Policing Act This article features Government Accountability Project and was originally published here. As the country reflects on the one year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer, we mourn his loss as we also mourn the lack of real progress on police [...]
