Category Archives: Whistleblowers

The Government Accountability Project’s “Know Your Rights Campaign” raises public awareness of Gulf worker whistleblower rights

GAP’s Know Your Rights Campaign (“KYRC”) seeks to pierce the cloak of fog that has hampered both public and private sector efforts to determine ecosystem damages and human health impacts in the Gulf region in the wake of the BP … Continue reading

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Thomas Drake NSA whistleblower victory: government’s case implodes

The Obama administration's prosecution of National Security Agency whistleblower Thomas Drake collapsed this week, days before his trial was set to begin. Prosecutors dropped felony charges under the Espionage Act; Drake pled to a single misdemeanor and will not go … Continue reading

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National Security Agency whistleblower Thomas Drake appearing on CBS 60 Minutes May 22 in his first television interview

Thomas Drake, who disclosed evidence of multi-billion dollar corruption and mismanagement in the NSA and illegal domestic surveillance, faces retaliatory prosecution under the Obama administration’s war on whistleblowers. He will be appearing on a special two-hour episode of 60 Minutes … Continue reading

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Reviewer praise for The Corporate Whistleblower’s Survival Guide

For a country deeply in need of many truth-tellers to come forward with evidence of wrongdoing in corporate America that is hidden behind walls of wealth, power, and secrecy: the Government Accountability Project’s The Corporate Whistleblower’s Survival Guide: A Handbook … Continue reading

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The 2011 Ridenhour Prizes

Thomas Drake, 2011 recipient of The Ridenhour Truth-Telling Prize, was a senior official at the National Security Agency (NSA) who blew the whistle through the proper channels and exposed massive waste, fraud and abuse as well as illegal and unconstitutional … Continue reading

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Corporate Whistleblower's Survival Guide released

The Government Accountability Project is proud to announce the release of the single most comprehensive publication ever created about corporate whistleblowing, The Corporate Whistleblower's Survival Guide: A Handbook for Committing the Truth. Published by Berrett-Koehler, this step-by-step guide details key information … Continue reading

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Blow the Whistle – Identifying the U.S. Senator who singlehandedly killed whistleblower protection with a secret “hold”

Was the culprit Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama)? Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Arizona)? Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho)? Which U.S. Senator surreptitiously used a secret “hold” to kill a major whistleblower protection bill in the final hours of the last Congress? The offices … Continue reading

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Senator kills vital whistleblower protection bill on last day of Congress via an anonymous ‘hold’

A single Republican Senator, using the egregious parliamentary tactic of placing an anonymous ‘hold’ without having the integrity to offer a public justification, killed a major whistleblower protection bill that reform advocates have worked on for 12 years, and that had overwhelming … Continue reading

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Minerals Management Service rebuffed Congress on BP Atlantis and offshore drilling concerns before Gulf oil blowout

The New York Times reported on December 16 that the U.S. Minerals Management Service, which is charged with overseeing the safety of offshore drilling, was unresponsive to inquiries from members of Congress months before the BP Deepwater Horizon oil blowout, … Continue reading

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Support passage of whistleblower protection in the lame duck

The whistleblower protection community has reached the end game for passage of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, a package of badly needed reforms that would restore meaningful whistleblower rights to federal government employees who blow the whistle on waste, fraud, … Continue reading

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