Lawmakers say Biden must address protections for whistleblowers
Experts note that a backlog of cases and an unstaffed board are disastrous for whistleblowers and wrongfully fired federal employees.
By Donna Provencher - April 07, 2021Experts note that a backlog of cases and an unstaffed board are disastrous for whistleblowers and wrongfully fired federal employees.
By Donna Provencher - April 07, 2021The Department of Veterans Affairs declared September ‘Insider Threat Awareness Month.’
By Donna Provencher - October 26, 2020A whistleblower complaint said a gynecologist was performing questionable hysterectomies at an immigrant detention center in Georgia.
By Associated Press - September 16, 2020DHS official Brian Murphy alleges the Department of Homeland Security withheld intelligence reports because they ‘made the president look bad.’
By Associated Press - September 10, 2020Bright told Congress that doctors and nurses got substandard foreign N95 medical masks.
By Josh Israel - May 14, 2020Dr. Richard Bright told a congressional hearing that Trump administration officials wanted to push an unproven and potentially dangerous drug.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 14, 2020‘It is hard not to think that the president’s loss of confidence in me derives from my having faithfully discharged my legal obligations as an independent and impartial inspector general,’ Michael Atkinson said.
By Associated Press - April 06, 2020A new whistleblower complaint alleges that Health and Human Services employees tended to potentially infected patients without protection and then dispersed into the general population.
By Melanie Schmitz - February 27, 2020‘If we don’t do it, we’re letting you down,’ Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said.
By Josh Israel - February 03, 2020Paul submitted a question with the alleged name of the whistleblower, even though Justice Roberts warned senators he would not read any questions that included the name.
By Emily Singer - January 30, 2020One expert called it ‘completely inappropriate’ for Trump ‘to be engaged in any type of behavior that could harm a whistleblower.’
By Associated Press - December 30, 2019Trump called for a whistleblower to be executed, one of many attacks against a federal employee who did nothing more than report suspected wrongdoing.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 20, 2019Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV) omitted that the Trump administration has been actively trying to avoid any compliance with subpoenas.
By Josh Israel - November 22, 2019Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) says Senate Republicans may out the whistleblower if the House impeaches Donald Trump.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 19, 2019House Republicans keeping using the impeachment inquiry hearings to ask questions intended to reveal the whistleblower’s identity.
By Emily Singer - November 19, 2019Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions once vowed to protect whistleblowers against retaliation.
By Josh Israel - November 18, 2019Testimony from multiple officials has largely corroborated the whistleblower’s complaint.
By Josh Israel - November 14, 2019Republicans interrupted the hearing as soon as it started, targeting the whistleblower who issued the complaint at the center of the impeachment inquiry.
By Emily Singer - November 13, 2019Trump appears down on whistleblowers after a whistleblower complaint led to the impeachment inquiry that threatens his presidency.
By Emily Singer - November 11, 2019