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Fact Check Update: NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake All But Concedes GAP NDAA...
In a Firedoglake discussion, NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake said the following: During the 2001-2006 timeframe, OSC was not in a position to properly process the very sensitive (and even highly...
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Firedoglake: Can It Be Both a ‘Progressive News Site’ and an ‘Action...
Allow me to juxtapose some notions and statements that may not be compatible. From the Society of Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics: Journalists should: — Avoid conflicts of interest, real or...
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Fact Check: POGO Reinforces Myth of “No Safe Channel” for National Security...
In a Huffington Post article April 16, Project of Government Oversight Executive Director Danielle Brian lamented the purported lack of avenues for national security whistleblowers. As stated in the...
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Separating Fact from Speculation at the Commerce Department Office of...
The Washington Post reported today that two former special agents at the Commerce Department Office of Inspector General pleaded guilty to “filing false expense claims and committing attendance fraud.”...
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Whistleblower Relations Under the Microscope
TSA Whistleblower Robert MacLean was recently interviewed by Peter B. Collins, along with MacLean’s attorney, Tom Devine. The entire interview is worth listening but this exchange was particularly...
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De-Muddying the Waters: GAP’s Compromised Role as Lobbyists, Not Lawyers
It has become an entrenched trope, a go-to defense, for the Government Accountability Project and its defenders to claim that GAP “can’t help everybody,” or “they helped me for free,” when its...
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MSPB Executive Director Responds to Whistleblower’s Critical Article
In October 2012, Washington Lawyer (the publication of the DC Bar) published this article, by attorney and whistleblower Robert J. McCarthy, that was critical of OSC, MSPB (and especially the MSPB’s...
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Why Did Congress Add an Intelligence Community Loophole to the Contractor...
The National Whistleblowers Center is on record that Department of Defense contractors already had access to jury trials, and that Section 827(e) of the NDAA Bill, the IC loophole, (now codified at 41...
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Contrary to Popular Belief, FBI Employees Can Blow the Whistle to the Office...
What they can’t do is file a complaint for whistleblower reprisal with OSC. For that they’ll need to use the DOJ’s internal processes. View this document on Scribd 13-25 DI-12-1761 – FBI Employee’s...
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Fact Checking the President on Edward Snowden and Whistleblower Protections
For a copy of PPD-19, click here. For information about Congress’ role in stripping whistleblower protections for intelligence community contractors in December 2012, click here.
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GAP’s Whistleblower Whiplash
Two developments in the whistleblower world caught the Government Accountability Project speaking out of both sides of its mouth today. Here’s GAP’s Legal Director, Tom Devine, on news that the Federal...
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GAP Inconsistency Watch
Government Accountability Project Legal Director Tom Devine found himself into the papers yesterday with this quote about OSC’s underfunding crisis: Tom Devine, legal director for the Government...
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Politifact Updates Fact Check of Obama’s Promised Whistleblower Protections
Tampa Bay Times’ Politifact.com has updated its long-running fact check of President Obama’s campaign promise to strengthen whistleblower laws. I was honored to be included as a source of information...
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A Month in Merit Protection: Recapping Civil Service News for January 2014
A Month in Merit Protection is a new feature on MSPB Watch, recapping news, developments, and notable cases at the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board and the U.S. Office of Special Counsel. Send tips...
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Disconnected from Reality: Civil Service ‘Reform’ Report Recommends Gutting...
From pages 33-34 of this report by the Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton: Administrative appeals of agency decisions to remove or discipline federal employees that are currently...
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