Washington, D.C. December 7, 2006.  In 2004, Roger Barnes, a former Fannie Mae accounting manager, blew the whistle on Fannie Mae for large irregularities in financial records which ultimately led to the toppling of Fannie Mae’s CEO and other executives.  A new Fannie Mae whistleblower has emerged this week, detailing the continuing culture of corruption within the mortgage-finance giant. Thomas S. Inman, who was a Fannie Mae financial manager, was the latest replacement for Roger Barnes. Mr. Inman investigated system errors that he found to be orders of magnitude larger than the estimates Fannie Mae had previously provided to one of its federal regulators, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO). When he reported these errors internally he was swiftly removed from restatement work. Not long after, he met the same fate as Mr. Barnes when he was terminated without notice and escorted off Fannie Mae premises.

Washington, D.C. December 5, 2006.  The National Whistleblowers Center, a nationally recognized government watchdog group, is calling for Congressional oversight hearings into the FBI’s handling of its counterterrorism program.  Last night FBI whistleblower Bassem Youssef was the subject of a story on NBC Nightly news, in which he discussed, for the first time, his allegations that the FBI’s lack of subject matter experts has harmed and in some cases crippled the U.S. counterterrorism program.

Washington, D.C. December 4, 2006. Mr. Bassem Youssef, a supervisory unit chief currently employed in the FBI’s Counterterrorism Detection Unit (CTD), will speak out publicly for the first time regarding grave deficiencies in America’s counterterrorism program. Mr. Youssef’s case will be highlighted on NBC Nightly News segment airing tonight.

Washington, D.C. October 11, 2006.  Today the National Whistleblowers Center released a copy of a sworn affidavit of Michael J. Heimbach, the Section Chief for the FBI’s top operational counterterrorism program – the International Terrorism Operations Section (“ITOS”).  In this affidavit, Mr. Heimbach admitted that the FBI has no agents employed within ITOS who are fluent in Arabic.  He also conceded that there are “no agent positions” in ITOS that “utilize the Arabic language as part of their ITOS duties or responsibilities.”