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Scientific research has shown that the ability of Congress and other oversight bodies to obtain information necessary to prevent fraud, waste and abuse in federal programs is dangerously weak. To remedy this ongoing crisis, Congress or the President must fix current laws and provide proper remedies for employees who risk their careers to protect taxpayer dollars and advance the public interest.
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Dear Whistleblower Supporters:National security whistleblowers are under attack and need your help now! The Senate Intelligence Committee has approved an anti-whistleblower bill. The committee voted to give the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the heads of other agencies the power to strip whistleblowers of their pensions.
Section 403 of the Intelligence Authorization Act authorizes these officials to strip whistleblowers of their hard-earned federal pensions, simply by being accused, not convicted, of leaking classified information. Every whistleblower will be at risk because ALL most likely will be accused of making improper disclosures. We urge you to join us in opposing S.719 until Section 403 is cut.
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Washington D.C. May 11, 2011. Today at 2:00 pm EST, the Capital Market and Government Sponsored Enterprises Subcommittee of the House Committee on Financial Services will be holding a hearing on an anti-whistleblower bill proposed by Congressman Michael G. Grimm (R-NY, 3rd). The bill amends the Security Exchange Act to reverse the main whistleblower protections in the Dodd-Frank and creates unprecedented sweeping restrictions on the ability of employees to blow the whistle on corporate fraud. Some of the most alarming features in the bill are:
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Washington, D.C. April 20, 2011. Today, the National Whistleblowers Center released an open letter to Lisa Jackson the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding the racial and sexual discriminatory conduct of the newly appointed director of the EPA's Office of Civil Rights (OCR), Rafael DeLeon and calling for his immediate dismissal.
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Washington, D.C. April 7, 2011. Yesterday, Senator Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) introduced the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2011 (WPEA), S. 743. Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) issued the following statement in response:
In December of 2010, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC), the Federal Ethics Center, the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition and the No FEAR Coalition, together with nationally respected whistleblowers and thousands of citizen activists, strongly opposed the prior version of the WPEA (S. 372) calling it a "bad deal for whistleblowers ." We laid out seven detailed reasons for why the bill would be detrimental for federal employees and would roll back existing whistleblower protections.
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Washington, D.C. January 12, 2011. Today, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) issued the following statement:
Whistleblower Protection for Federal Employees -- Let's Get it Right
The new Congress gives whistleblower advocates an opportunity to make a new start on the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act ("WPEA"). The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) today calls on legislators and advocates to get it right this time. Legal protections for federal employees should be enhanced without any provisions that would take away presently existing rights. If any poison pills are included in new legislation, federal employees will continue to suffer when they raise concerns about waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government.
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Washington, D.C. January 5, 2011. On Monday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled in favor of a sickle cell disease researcher who blew the whistle on improper cloning of blood cell lines. The decision clears the way Dr. Duane Bonds to proceed with her claim that the National Institutes of Health fired her in retaliation for blowing the whistle on the improper cloning of cell lines without consent.
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Federal employees are the “eyes and ears of enforcement.” However, they often suffer harsh retaliation for blowing the whistle on waste, fraud and abuse.
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