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To get the latest news on today's deposition testimony by national security whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, I have been reading The Brad Blog.  Investigative journalist and commentator Brad Friedman reports that Edmonds was able to testify in response to all the...

Today's front page article in the Washington Times exposes the legislative hurdles faced by whistleblowers and notes the Administration's role in the process stating, "White House drafts weaken some protections."

The National Whistleblowers Legal Defense and Education Fund today fought efforts by the FBI and the Department of Justice to prevent FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds from testifying in a case of alleged election fraud.

Public health researcher Celeste Monforton has written a blog entry highlighting the danger to public safety caused by the Senate's delay in confirming M. Patricia Smith as the new Solicitor of Labor.  President Obama appointed Smith in April, and she...

Attorney Dan Hurson used to work for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This week he cheered for the whistleblower provision in President Obama's proposal to overhaul our regulations of financial markets.  "This may be the beginning of the golden...

Richard Convertino's Privacy Act lawsuit against the U.S. government is now addressing a question of whether a U.S. attorney can conceal his emails to his attorney sent over the government's computers. Convertino was one of America’s top federal prosecutors. The government...

Jesselyn Radack, a whistleblower from the Department of Justice, has called on Congress to enact legislation that will give national security whistleblowers access to jury trials.  In an op-ed article for the Massachusetts Herald News, Radack describes how Bush-era surveillance...

On Tuesday the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) released a statement inviting the press to the deposition of Ms. Sibel Edmonds.  The Ohio Elections Commission then made it clear that the deposition must be closed to the press. However, the proceedings...

The U.S. Justice Department announced that it is suing First Choice Armor over its marketing of Zylon-based bullet-proof vests that the company knew would break down in heat or humidity. The suit follows disclosures by Dr. Aaron Westrick, a researcher...

I am pleased to report that last Friday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated a sanction against DC employee rights attorney John Karl, and held that attorneys are free to make arguments based on...