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Last Wednesday, Robert Mueller, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee for an oversight hearing.  Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) used the opportunity to question Dir. Mueller about how the administration's proposed whistleblower bill (S....

Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC), is in Montenegro this week calling for enactment of whistleblower protections as a key component of transparency. Kohn is traveling to Montenegro under the auspices of the U.S. Department...

U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler has rejected employer attempts to constrict the whistleblower protections of the federal and District of Columbia False Claims Acts.  In a decision issued last week, she corrected a judgment from a jury verdict, and overruled...

San Francisco attorney Cliff Palefsky testified on Tuesday about the need for legislation to protect workers from losing their right to trial by jury through employer-imposed pre-dispute binding arbitration agreements.  Palefsky testified to the House Judiciary Committee on behalf of...

Michael D. Kohn, President of the National Whistleblowers Center, is attending the Anti-Corruption and Transparency Symposium this week in Seoul, South Korea. According to an article in today's The Korea Times, the symposium is co-hosted by Korea's Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights...

The Mid-Hudson News reports that Ulster County, New York, has now adopted a Whistleblower Employee/Agent Protection  Policy. The report says that the policy will protect employees of the county and its contractors.  One proponent of the policy was County Comptroller Elliott...

A child welfare employee has won a million dollar jury verdict in Palm Beach County, Florida, according to the Miami Herald.  Gerolyn Shapiro says that she was fired because her testimony pointed to the negligence of another county employee.  Shapiro had...

In 2003, John Kopchinski was earning $125,000 a year selling the drug Bextra for Pfizer.  He had a baby son, and his wife was pregnant with twins.  The Gulf War veteran says that, "In the Army, I was expected to...

XII: WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WHITE HOUSE? The bottom line is that President Obama did promise, on numerous occasions, to support whistleblowers. He did specifically endorse the framework for protection set forth in the House bill.

On the 8th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley has issued a call to action for the White House and Congress to pass effective legislation protecting national security whistleblowers.