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Free speech: Whistleblowers silenced by Supreme Court ruling

donal brown April 19, 2011

A state police officer whose job it was to investigate corruption of the Connecticut State Police was removed from his job, isolated from other officers and made the subject of an investigation of conduct that occurred several years earlier. The officer had alleged that  the state police routinely covered up misconduct by police officers, including drunk driving, domestic violence, and misuse of state funds. When the officer sued, a federal judge cited Garcetti v. Caballos

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Senate committee wants stiffer penalties for leakers of classified information

donal brown April 7, 2011

The Senate Intelligence Committee wants to deprive current or former employees of federal intelligence agencies of their pensions if they illegally disclose classified information. The change was proposed after complaints that leakers faced no serious consequences for their actions. In a dissenting statement , Oregon Senator Ron Wyden wrote that he feared that the new penalties would discourage whistleblowers, “My concern is that giving intelligence agency heads the authority to take away the pensions of

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FDA whistleblowers claim e-mails deleted illegally

donal brown April 7, 2011

The National Whistleblowers Center and six current and former employees from the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Service are preparing to sue the federal agencies for deleting e-mails and withholding records. The employees are alleging that they reported problems to the agencies including pressure to reverse a decision about the safety of a medical device and were punished for the reports. To document their case, the employees are seeking

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Open government: Whistleblowers win challenge to law protecting them

donal brown March 29, 2011

The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has upheld the False Claims Act (FCA) that allows whistleblowers to bring claims for the government to recover damages for fraud committed by government contractors. The American Civil Liberties Union, OMB Watch and the Government Accountability Project sued under the First Amendment and the public’s right to know to challenge the “seal” provision in the act that allows employees to file claims without exposing their identities to their

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Obama administration hostile to whistleblowers

donal brown March 3, 2011

Jesselyn Radack writes in the Daily Kos that the Obama administration has initiated a number of prosecutions of whistleblowers with the Espionage Act as its “weapon of choice.” “The Obama administration has been consistently escalating its war on whistleblowers despite non-stop criticism from the whistleblowing community, First Amendment advocates, and journalists,” writes Radack. -db From a commentary in the Daily Kos, March 1, 2011, by Jesselyn Radack. Full Story

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