Intelligence Community

Last week, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Acting Chairman Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) issued a joint statement supporting whistleblowers within the intelligence community.  The statement reads: “Consistent with its mandate to oversee the activities and...

On June 17, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduce introduced legislation aimed at protecting inspectors general. The Washington Post published an Op-Ed by Sen. Grassley in which he discusses the purpose of the bill. According to Sen. Grassley, the bill will...

Oversight should have no political bias. That was the message sent yesterday by Republican Senator Chuck Grassley. He announced that he would delay the confirmation process of two Trump nominees until he receives a sufficient explanation for President Trump’s recent...

The lawyers for WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning have renewed the effort to get the former U.S. Army intelligence analyst out of prison. Manning, now incarcerated for a year after refusing to appear before a federal grand jury, is being fined...

In November 2019, federal prosecutors in Michigan indicted a man on charges of making death threats against Mark Zaid, the attorney representing the whistleblower at the center of the Trump impeachment proceedings, according to recently unsealed court filings. The message...

The debate over whistleblower protection shifted to the impeachment trial, where another attempt was made to reveal the name of a person some think is the Ukraine Whistleblower. But, an important disclosure didn’t get much attention during the partisan sparring...

Edward Snowden, the noted NSA whistleblower, last night spoke up in defense of his partner in...crime? Concern is growing that journalists who use leaked documents are starting to be pursued more aggressively as criminals. Snowden fled the country after he...

"This all supposedly started because of a whistleblower,” President Trump's attorney Jay Sekulow said Tuesday during the first day of the Senate impeachment trial. "Where is that whistleblower?" he added as he closed his notebook and walked away from the Senate...

Just before the holiday, the American Bar Association published a statement on its "Legal Fact Check" webpage concluding that the whistleblower's identity is NOT Protected by the law. The lawyer for the White House whistleblower has asked that the person’s...

The Washington Post reports that Congressional staffers worked through the holiday to complete a report on the House Intelligence Committee's  Ukraine investigation. It is expected to go to the Judiciary Committee Tuesday. That committee will meet Wednesday review the report and...