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On the Daily Show last night, following President Obama's Oval Office speech, Jon Stewart delivered a monologue addressing the president's record on civil liberties and executive power. Stewart plays a number of clips of President Obama from the campaign trail,...

Attorneys for the NWC submitted a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder calling for an investigation of BP and the entire oil industry, including contractors and subcontractors, for fraud committed against the U.S. government. The letter explains that the False...

National Public Radio (NPR) is reporting that a federal administrative judge has ordered that the Massey Coal Company temporarily reinstate whistleblower Ricky Lee Campbell while his retaliation case is pending.  Campbell drove coal shuttle cars and bolted mine roofs at...

The Jamaican Senate is scheduled to debate a comprehensive whistleblower bill this Friday. Justice Minister Senator Dorothy Lightbourne released the proposed text of the Protected Disclosure Act (Whistle-blower Law) 2010, according to Jamaica Observer. The bill fulfills a 2007 election...

Federal agencies can readily implement policy requiring their engineers to be PE's (with appropriate grandfathering). Federal PE's who risk their careers to do their duty to protect others need and deserve viable whistleblower protection and the current system to protect...

Speigel Online is today releasing an interview with Daniel Ellsberg in which Ellsberg criticizes the Obama administration for increasing the use of criminal prosecutions against whistleblowers.  Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers to reveal how numerous previous administrations had resorted to...

In the past 24 hours there have been significant developments in the case of UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld. Three years ago, the former UBS banker provided the U.S. government with detailed information on how to identify the names of 19,000...

The U.S. government has arrested another whistleblower. Wired.com reports that the government is holding Specialist Bradley Manning in detention in Kuwait pending charges that he supplied a classified video to WikiLeaks.org.  I reported here in April that this video depicts...

The American Law Institute (ALI) is a private organization of establishment lawyers and law professors that seeks to influence the law by publishing “restatements” of the law. In its noblest work, it seeks to make the law of the 50...

The warmer summer days here in Georgetown bring us a new class of interns.  I am pleased to share this photo of our 2010 NWC Summer Interns:   Pictured here are (top row): Will, Harsh, Arthur, Josh and Nate; (middle)...