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Judge says CIA must grant clearances to lawyers suing the CIA
U.S. District Court Judge Lamberth has ordered the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to grant security clearances to the lawyers on both sides of a case so they can participate in the adjudication of what relevant evidence is properly classified. As...
California Senate passes bill to extend whistleblower coverage to university employees
Yesterday, the California State Senate passed SB 219, a bill to extend state whistleblower protections to employees of the University of California (UC). The bill became necessary after the California Supreme Court decided last year that UC employees were not...
Stephen Kohn speaks on Democracy Now about UBS whistleblower’s sentence
Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC), spoke today with Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman of Democracy Now about the forty-month sentence handed down to the UBS whistleblower, Bradley Birkenfeld. turned over the banking information that has...
What’s Wrong With The Senate Whistleblower Bill? – Continues Monday
The NWC's series "What's Wrong With The Senate Whistleblower Bill" examining specific weaknesses in the Senate Bill will continue on Monday. If you would like more information on the Senate Bill please read NWC General Counsel David K. Colapinto's legal...
What’s Wrong With The Senate Whistleblower Bill? – Part 7
VII: CAPS ON DAMAGES AND OTHER LITTLE GEMS In addition to the problems already addressed in earlier postings, there are some smaller, yet still very important, problems that need to be addressed before the Senate votes on the final version...
What’s Wrong With The Senate Whistleblower Bill? – Part 6
VI: WILL ANY FEDERAL EMPLOYEES EVER HAVE THEIR CASE HEARD IN FEDERAL COURT? The short answer to this question is virtually, none. When read together, the numerous "poison pill" provisions inserted into S. 372 all but guarantee that very few,...
What’s Wrong With The Senate Whistleblower Bill? – Part 5
V: THE NEW SUMMARY JUDGEMENT RULE: GOLIATH FINALLY WINS! S. 372 contains a new provision that permits the Merit Systems Protection Board to dismiss whistleblower claims under a procedural rule known as "summary judgment." See Section 118. This new rule...
ACLU loses challenge to FCA seals
In a victory for the right of whistleblowers to seal, temporarily, their claims of fraud against the government, U.S. District Court Judge Liam O'Grady late yesterday dismissed a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), OMB Watch and...
Judge compels deposition of EPA official
U.S. District Judge Clay Land, of Athens, Georgia, issued an order yesterday compelling the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide their employee Madolyn Dominy for deposition in a whistleblower's scientific fraud case. Madolyn Dominy was the EPA's Regional...
What’s Wrong With The Senate Whistleblower Bill? – Part 4
IV: BACKSTABBING FBI WHISTLEBLOWERS: WILL THIS PROBLEM REALLY GET FIXED? Putting it bluntly: S. 372 repeals all existing whistleblower rights for FBI employees.
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