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Today, the National Whistleblowers Center joined a letter with members of the Make it Safe Coalition asking President Obama to reaffirm his campaign commitment to stronger whistleblower protections.  The letter acknowledges the Presidents efforts to improve transparency and accountability in...

On Tuesday, Senator Charles Grassley asked the Acting Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration to clarify the Agency’s position on the rights of employees to communicate with Congress and the Inspector General.  Grassley was responding to a memo issued...

Back in 1993, world renowned FBI scientist Dr. Frederic Whitehurst (pictured right) brought to light astonishing deficiencies and scientific fraud at the FBI Crime Lab. These allegations would lead to a massive reform of forensic science at the FBI. The FBI...

Back in 2003, Bunny Greenhouse blew the whistle on no-bid contracts to Halliburton that were doled out by the Bush Administration in the run-up to the Iraq War. Since then she has suffered her share of hardships, having been harassed...

As you know, we have been waging an intense campaign for new whistleblower protection laws. We have experienced recent victories and setbacks. And now, prominent whistleblowers like Bunny Greenhouse are calling us all to action. Throughout this campaign, our staff...

On Wednesday, behind closed doors on Capitol Hill, House and Senate leaders hammered out a deal to pass the economic stimulus bill. Both the original House and Senate versions of this bill included protections for employee whistleblowers. By Wednesday evening,...

Members of the House and Senate have been holed up on Capitol Hill all day negotiating the terms of the President's economic stimulus package. Earlier today, we learned that the whistleblower protection provisions in the bill were in danger. While...

I am happy to say that we have received another significant endorsement for federal employee whistleblower protections. The Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association has issued a statement in support of the Whistleblower provisions passed by the House of Representatives in...

The Washington Independent published an article addressing the lack of protection offered to whistleblowers in the stimulus bill.  The article quoted Stephen Kohn, who states: "The biggest defect in the current language in the House and Senate versions, is about blowing the whistle...

Speaker of House Nancy Pelosi issued a press release expressing her support for the whistleblower amendment to the stimulus bill.  Speaker Pelosi stated that "It is inconceivable that the people’s business had been conducted for so long without ‘whistleblower’ protections...