Tag: Whistleblowers

"Betsy DeVos is coming for your public schools," reads the Newsweek headline. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Betsy DeVos asked if Education Department bureaucrats could be prosecuted for leaks: Report

Naomi Lim · April 4, 2018 8:18 pm

Cambridge Analytica whistleblower accepts US, UK invites to testify: ‘It’s time for our democratic institutions to take control’

Diana Stancy Correll, Daniel Chaitin · March 21, 2018 11:26 pm

CEO Mark Zuckerberg faces growing calls to testify before Congress after Facebook admitted that data for some of its users was improperly acquired by a consulting firm that worked with President Trump's 2016 campaign.

Will Facebook’s mea culpa help Zuckerberg avoid a Senate hearing?

James Langford · March 21, 2018 6:12 pm

Democrats push for limits on Trump’s alleged nondisclosure agreements

Democrats push for limits on Trump’s alleged nondisclosure agreements

Pete Kasperowicz · March 21, 2018 12:16 pm

New York, Massachusetts investigating Facebook over Cambridge Analytica scandal

Melissa Quinn · March 20, 2018 9:08 pm

The subpoena would call for all documents requested by the committee as part of an investigation into whether the Trump administration violated a federal whistleblower law. (Wikipedia Commons)

House Democrats want to subpoena documents on HHS ‘gag order’ for employees

Robert King · January 29, 2018 10:14 pm

Daniel Ellsberg, seen here in 1973, wants people with information on a possible build up to war in North Korea to release that information before it's too late like he did. (File photo)

National Security

Pentagon Papers leaker encourages US officials to disclose documents that would avoid war with North Korea

Naomi Lim · January 21, 2018 11:00 pm

American whistleblower Edward Snowden called on President Trump to veto the legislation giving six more years of life to the key counterterrorism surveillance tool. (Sebastian Willnow/dpa via AP)

National Security

Edward Snowden calls for public release of FISA abuses memo and Trump veto of key surveillance tool

Daniel Chaitin · January 19, 2018 2:37 pm

Mr. President, it is with great disappointment that I inform your office that despite your efforts to reform VA, the agency has done little to improve its operations to enhance Veteran access to healthcare. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Beltway Confidential

Whistleblower calls for VA czar in open letter to Trump

Scott Davis · October 30, 2017 11:00 am

President Donald Trump, accompanied by Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, center right, and veterans, signs an Executive Order on "Improving Accountability and Whistleblower Protection" at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Thursday, April 27, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

A good start at reforming the Veterans Administration

Washington Examiner · October 18, 2017 4:01 am

House lawmakers next week will approve another federal emergency funding request to aid states and U.S. territories ravaged by recent hurricanes. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Congress next week: Hurricane relief and whistleblower protection

Susan Ferrechio · October 7, 2017 1:00 pm

Whistleblower Aid will not facilitate the criminal leaking of classified material, but will help submit statements for pre-publication review and file lawsuits if permission is not granted to publicly describe classified content. (Whistleblower Aid)

National Security

New group offers leakers free attorneys, financial help if they’re fired

Steven Nelson · September 18, 2017 8:32 pm