Public advocacy saves whistleblowers from administrative minefield
Great news out of Congress: legislators in the House of Representatives negotiating the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act have decided to scrap the provision that would give the Merit Systems...
View ArticleChief opponent of whistleblower rights in the House defends ICE whistleblowers
Representative Lamar Smith (R-Texas), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has come out in support of 10 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who filed a lawsuit challenging the...
View ArticlePublic Sentiment Is Everything (Part II)
On June 16, I wrote the following about the current efforts to pass the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act: There’s a quiet revolution taking place in the federal whistleblower community....
View ArticleVeal Pen Watchdogs Misappropriate Whistleblowers’ Support for Strong Bill to...
Beltway watchdogs the Government Accountability Project and the Project on Government Oversight are lobbying for the passage of a version of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act which POGO...
View ArticleSeptember 20
Two years ago today I was let go from the Federal Aviation Administration for disclosing wrongdoing and for refusing to violate the law. Since that time, I have worked to empower other whistleblowers...
View ArticleNational Whistleblowers Center explains roots of divisions and setbacks in...
Here it is. Key passage (emphasis mine): On February 1, 2007, whistleblower organizations met together as the Make it Safe Coalition (MISC) and agreed that we would support only bills that were...
View ArticleGAP Reaches Out to Whistleblower Community to Protect Rights, Six Months Too...
The Government Accountability Project issued a call today for whistleblowers to submit friend-of-the-court briefs to the Merit Systems Protection Board to support the retroactive application of the...
View ArticleWill Congress Step Up With an Amicus at MSPB or Federal Circuit to Ensure...
In early June, Congress, as channeled by lobbyist Tom Devine of the Government Accountability Project, was keen on making sure the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act would get a “clean” savings...
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1978 to 2012: Transparency and Congressional Deliberation of Whistleblower...
A look at whistleblower laws of recent decades In 1978, Congress debated the Civil Service Reform Act extensively. It was a landmark, once-in-a-century effort. Naturally, there would be a lot of...
View ArticleMSPB Watch Files Amicus Curiae Brief in Federal Court to Undo MSPB’s Erosion...
Last September, nearly a year after the passage of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board issued a decision in O’Donnell v. USDA, 2013 MSPB 69 (Sept. 10,...
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