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This Wednesday, September 24th, American University in Washington, DC will be holding a symposium entitled "A Question of Conscience." The event will focus on issues surrounding national security whistleblowers, and specifically the case of Katherine Gun, a former British Secret Service...

In 2002, Congress passed a sweeping corporate reform bill known as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). This legislation was a direct result of the crimes committed by publicly traded companies such as Enron and Worldcom. In drafting the bill, lawmakers wisely...

A U.S. District Judge in Michigan has ruled that Detroit Free Press reporter David Ashenfelter must testify in a whistleblower lawsuit brought by former federal prosecutor Richard Convertino against his old boss, the DOJ. Ashenfelter has been refusing to testify...

On September 8th,  181 public interest organizations, including the National Whistleblower Center, sent a letter to Congress urging  it to pass much needed amendments to the Whistleblower Protection Act  (WPA). The crucial amendments would grant employees the right to jury trials, protect...

US Army Corps of Engineers whistleblower Bunny Greenhouse is featured in a chapter of the new book, Your America: Democracy's Local Heroes. The book by John Siceloff and Jason Maloney arises from episodes of the PBS series "NOW" with David...

  Many of our readers (and certainly those who attended Whistleblower Week in Washington 2008) may have heard about the case of Dr. Gil Mileikowsky. Dr. Mileikowsky is a California Obstetrician who, in 2000, began blowing the whistle on some very disturbing issues at...

Back in April, when the Supreme Court denied certiorari for Murphy v. IRS, a lot of people were upset. Whistleblowers and other civil rights leaders knew that the DC Court of Appeals' terrible opinion (ruling that the 16th Amendment of the Constitution gives government...

In March 2007 the House of Representatives passed HR.985, strong legislation to protect federal employee whistleblowers. The measure passed  by a margin of 331-94.  In December 2007 the Senate unanimously passed S.274, its version of the law. It is now...

Today, with a stroke of his pen, President Bush ensured that over 20 million private sector employees would be protected when they report unsafe consumer goods. The protections are part of a bill that constitutes an overhaul of the Consumer...

This weekend the AP ran this article detailing the decade-long struggle of EPA whistleblower Dr. David Lewis. Lewis, an internationally renowned microbiologist, first ran into trouble at the agency when he questioned the science behind the policy of allowing farmers...