Tag: Whistleblowers

Duckworth's trial dovetails with ongoing troubles at Veterans Affairs departments across the country. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Beltway Confidential

Hillary Clinton is not the only Democrat facing legal problems this cycle

Ashe Schow · May 13, 2016 4:23 pm

An Air Force whistleblower who was quoted anonymously claimed pilots could have reached Benghazi the night of the attack on the U.S. Consulate. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)

National Security

Benghazi committee hunts for Air Force whistleblower

Sarah Bedford · May 12, 2016 10:08 pm

"It saddens me that someone would attempt to taint me as mayor of a city that is dealing with a major public health crisis, which has affected every man, woman and child in Flint," Karen Weaver said. (Rachel Woolf/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)

Energy and Environment

Flint mayor denies corruption allegation

Kyle Feldscher · May 11, 2016 8:08 pm

Mayor Karen Weaver is accused of firing a whistleblower who came forward and asked the city attorney to open an investigation. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Never let crisis dollars go to waste

Washington Examiner · May 11, 2016 4:02 am

Former Flint official says mayor funneled lead water crisis donations to her PAC

Energy and Environment

Former Flint official says mayor funneled lead water crisis donations to her PAC

Kyle Feldscher · May 10, 2016 2:14 pm

Whistleblower: Veterans ‘died at the hands’ of Russ Feingold

Whistleblower: Veterans ‘died at the hands’ of Russ Feingold

Joel Gehrke · May 3, 2016 6:42 pm

Senior officials at the Transportation Security Administration routinely engage in unethical behavior and punish employees who protest those actions or TSA's security weaknesses. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Testimony: TSA retaliating against whistleblowers

Joel Gehrke · April 27, 2016 6:18 pm

"We need to fix the VA's corruption culture and its all to often poor business performance." (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

Senator slams VA’s ‘give us more money’ attitude

Pete Kasperowicz · March 10, 2016 8:07 pm

That high number of abandoned calls is raising questions about whether the VA is doing all it can to fix up the suicide hotline, which has been criticized as the latest part of the VA that is failing veterans. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Savior of VA’s suicide hotline dropped 1.4M calls from vets

Pete Kasperowicz · March 9, 2016 10:56 pm

The VA has faced criticism for allowing employees who retaliate against whistleblowers to go unpunished. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

VA officials vow to stop whistleblower retaliation

Sarah Bedford · February 23, 2016 4:57 pm

Last week, whistleblowers showed the Washington Examiner evidence that the VA was diverting their emails to Washington, D.C. (AP photo/Keith Srakocic, file)

VA’s email spying may violate whistleblower policy

Pete Kasperowicz · January 25, 2016 5:38 pm

Few VA executives have ever faced punishment for participating in the litany of scandals that have plagued the agency for nearly two years. (AP Photo)

Documents: VA refuses to fire officials who punished whistleblowers

Sarah Bedford · December 16, 2015 8:26 pm