WhistleblowerAid.org calls out multi-faceted plan in which proposed NDA could be used to retaliate against and deter whistleblowers

Whistleblower Aid calls for a nominee who can restore accountability among intelligence community leaders

Whistleblower Aid client ICE whistleblower Ryan Schwank brought the training cuts to light in congressional testimony

Meta Is Held Accountable for Harm Against its Most Vulnerable Users in Two Verdicts This Week “The public now knows what I know, what Meta knows and what they tried to hide,” says Meta researcher turned WhistleblowerAid.org client, who testified in trial

WhistleblowerAid.org Founding Legal Partner Mark Zaid and WhistleblowerAid.org Chief Legal Counsel Andrew P. Bakaj released a statement on the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Inspector General declining to investigate our clients’ disclosures:

Having ICE perform TSA duties is reminiscent of “checkpoint systems once used in the Soviet Union and East Germany.”

Julius Nam, a WhistleblowerAid.org client, former federal prosecutor, and former CRS Associate Director, came forward to Congress in an effort to correct and complete the record, and to ensure that the DOJ is transparent in its dealings with both the courts and the public.

DNI Tulsi Gabbard continues to block key congressional leaders from seeing – in any form – the underlying, classified intelligence associated with our client’s disclosure. This is by no means surprising. The Administration’s assertion of “Executive Privilege” raises more questions than answers.

WASHINGTON, DC, Feb. 23, 2026 Represented by WhistleblowerAid.org— former ICE lawyer and instructor alarmed that more people may die as poorly prepared agents are rushed through training to meet mass deportation quotas.

Lawyers for the whistleblower accusing Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard of withholding a sensitive disclosure from Congress for nearly eight months responded today to the DNI’s General Counsel.

WASHINGTON, DC, Feb. 9–Whistleblower Aid today sent a letter to the US House and Senate Intelligence Committees following correspondence from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence concerning a long stalled whistleblower disclosure. “On February 3, 2026, we renewed our client’s request for DNI guidance and notified the DNI that should we not receive

WhistleblowerAid.org Chief Counsel Andrew P. Bakaj has advised Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard he will offer an unclassified briefing to Congress on Monday if Gabbard fails to provide security guidance for a whistleblower to go to the congressional intelligence committees on a highly classified disclosure that Gabbard buried for nearly eight months.

Andrew P. Bakaj, Whistleblower Aid Chief Legal Counsel has send the following correspondence to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard informing her that if she fails to provide security guidance to our client and their counsel on contacting the congressional intelligence committees Counsel Bakaj will approach the committees to provide them an unclassified briefing on the disclosure and the underlying intelligence concerns on February 9, 2025.

WhistleblowerAid.org is calling on Congress to open an investigation into Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard for hiding high-level intelligence from Congress for nearly eight months and her attempts to bury a whistleblower disclosure about her own actions, the reporting of which is required by law.

Whistleblowers Reveal the Directive was Rolled out in Secret and Briefed Verbally to Prevent Oversight Washington, D.C., January 21, 2026 – Two anonymous WhistleblowerAid.org clients have come forward to the U.S. Senate with evidence that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has authorized – and even trained – Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to forcibly

Whistleblower Aid clients continue their fight to ensure that every American is kept safeWashington, D.C., January 12, 2026 – Two career civil rights attorneys retaliated against for exposing the Trump Administration’s systematic dismantling of fair housing will testify Tuesday before the Senate Banking Committee in a spotlight forum on unlawful retaliation and flagrant civil rights

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 16, 2025 — A new, national public awareness campaign is launching today to ensure U.S. servicemembers are prepared, protected, and empowered to obey lawful orders, refuse illegal orders, and access legal resources to know the difference.

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 9, 2025 – Following reporting that the Supreme Court may be poised to give unprecedented power to the President over independent agencies, Whistleblower Aid Chief Legal Counsel, Andrew Bakaj, released the following statement: “The Supreme Court’s apparent willingness to give the President unchecked authority over independent agencies is deeply alarming. This isn’t

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 5, 2025 – In response to Attorney General Pam Bondi’s memo, instructing federal law enforcement to target loosely defined “extremist groups”, Whistleblower Aid Chief Legal Counsel Andrew Bakaj released the following statement:  “We can all agree that violence is unacceptable and should be met with the full force of the law, but

WASHINGTON, D.C., NOVEMBER 18, 2025 – In response to reporting that the Trump Administration is preparing to strip tens of thousands of senior career federal employees of long-standing whistleblower protections, Whistleblower Aid Chief Legal Counsel Andrew Bakaj released the following statement: “This is not accountability, this is retaliation masquerading as reform. First President Trump attacked

“Ingrassia did one thing right in this process – he withdrew” WASHINGTON, D.C., October 21, 2025 – Following Paul Ingrassia’s withdrawal of his nomination for the Office of Special Counsel Whistleblower Aid Chief Legal Counsel, Andrew P. Bakaj, released the following statement:  “All those who care deeply about accountability and the rule of law are

WASHINGTON, D.C., OCTOBER 6, 2025 – Following a letter signed by over 280 former prosecutors, FBI agents, intelligence analysts, immigration judges, and attorneys slamming President Trump for destroying the Department of Justice (DOJ) through violating court orders and weaponizing law enforcement against perceived enemies, Whistleblower Aid Chief Legal Counsel Andrew Bakaj released the following statement: “While none of

WASHINGTON, D.C., OCTOBER 1, 2025 – A day after his “Liberation Day” military meeting, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth released a memorandum substantially undermining the Inspector General’s independence and authority to operate as an independent oversight body over the Department of Defense. In response, Whistleblower Aid Chief Legal Counsel and former Inspector General Senior Investigator

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 30, 2025 – The Trump Administration has announced plans to cut off funding for the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE), the umbrella group that supports 72 inspectors general across the federal government. CIGIE, which serves as the watchdog of watchdogs, is an indispensable hub for rooting out waste, fraud, and

Whistleblower Aid clients – expert researchers with a combined experience of 20 years at Meta – break with Meta on youth harm in virtual reality WASHINGTON, D.C., September 8, 2025 – Meta has repeatedly deleted or doctored internal safety research that shows kids, some of them 10 or younger, being exposed to child grooming, sexual harassment and violence in its Virtual Reality (VR), Marketplace, Dating and other products. That is according to the six company whistleblowers who have filed a detailed disclosure to Congress, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission.

WASHINGTON, DC, August 20, 2025 – Following this week’s lawless actions by the Trump Administration revoking the security clearances of 37 current and former intelligence officials through an Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) memo, Andrew P. Bakaj, Whistleblower Aid’s Chief Legal Counsel and a former CIA officer, issued the following statement:  “Attempts

WASHINGTON, August 4, 2025 – Whistleblower Aid has urged Congress to investigate the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) after it “lost” a client’s whistleblower disclosure implicating misconduct by President Trump’s nominee for a federal judgeship. The OIG told Whistleblower Aid that it only “found” the client’s disclosure on the eve

WASHINGTON, JULY 31, 2025 – The Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General has slowed, or outright stopped, its investigations into critical whistleblower submissions according to a new report in The New York Times today. This includes the disclosure submitted by a Whistleblower Aid client raising the alarm on misconduct by Emil Bove

WASHINGTON, July 29, 2025 – The Department of Justice says it “lost” a key whistleblower complaint documenting Emil Bove’s contempt for the rule of law and found it again just yesterday – a period of more than two months in which Bove was nominated to serve as a federal appeals judge and cleared the Senate

WASHINGTON, JULY 25, 2025 – A Whistleblower Aid client and a former Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney has lawfully disclosed evidence to the DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General that corroborates the thrust of the whistleblower claims regarding Emil Bove and other senior DOJ officials actively and deliberately undermining the rule of law. Our client,

Whistleblower Aid Files Amicus Brief in Support of Co-Founder Mark Zaid as he Challenges Presidential Retaliation WASHINGTON, D.C., June 13, 2025 – Whistleblower Aid has filed an amicus brief in support of its co-founder, Mark Zaid, as he challenges President Trump’s retaliatory revocation of his security clearance. Zaid’s security clearance was revoked on March 22,

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WASHINGTON, D.C., June 10, 2025 – Less than a month after UnitedHealth Group (UHG) CEO Andrew Witty stepped down, two whistleblowers represented by Whistleblower Aid have produced significant evidence which shows that Optum, a subsidiary of UnitedHealthcare (UHC), may be defrauding Medicare through dangerous and deceptive practices. According to our clients, UHC has employed a “playbook” that encourages the delay – or outright denial – of critical hospital care to vulnerable nursing home patients.

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 3, 2025 – Miles Taylor, former President Trump-appointed Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Whistleblower Aid client, filed a complaint against the Trump Administration today, calling on federal watchdogs to investigate Trump’s retaliation against him. In April, Trump issued an Executive Order explicitly targeting Taylor for

WASHINGTON, May 29, 2025 – Whistleblower Aid Chief Legal Counsel, Andrew Bakaj, spoke today on Elon Musk’s departure from the Trump administration, the legacy of DOGE’s access to critical information systems within the federal government, and the ongoing vital role of whistleblowers in defending democracy from this administration’s lawless attack upon it: “As Elon Musk

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WASHINGTON, D.C., May 5, 2025 – A new legal defense fund will support Miles Taylor, a former Trump-appointed senior official at the Department of Homeland Security turned prominent dissident, in response to the Trump administration’s unprecedented and unconstitutional retaliation campaign against whistleblowers and the lawyers who represent them. The platform EndPresidentialRevenge.org will be used to back Taylor and others who have been targeted for speaking out. 

WASHINGTON, May 5, 2025 – Whistleblower Aid co-founder, Mark Zaid has launched a lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration’s vengeance-based revocation of his security clearance.  In response, Whistleblower Aid CEO Libby Liu released the following statement supporting Mark:  “Mark Zaid is challenging President Trump’s retaliatory revocation of his security clearance as not only a crucial

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Washington, D.C., April 15, 2025 – A whistleblower has exposed DOGE’s unlawful plundering of systems at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), possibly affecting millions of Americans – and the nefarious underbelly of DOGE. It brings the Trump Administration’s lawless attack on democracy to staggering new lows.

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Washington, D.C., April 1, 2025 – The continued efforts of the Trump Administration and of DOGE to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) recklessly disregards human life both here in the United States and abroad.

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Washington, D.C., March 25, 2025 – The Trump Administration’s gutting of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is a part of the broader undertaking of the White House and of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to descale the federal government and sow chaos into the nation’s Democratic institutions.

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Washington, D.C., March 25, 2025 – Former Special Assistant United States Attorney Kateri (Kat) Dahl has spent the last five years pursuing justice for the victims of sex crimes in Johnson City, TN. Her determination to not give up on these victims, including over 60 victims of a single serial rapist, is detailed in a major investigative story published by Ronan Farrow in the New Yorker.

New reports today show that Chinese state media has reacted gleefully to the Trump administration shuttering of Voice of America (VOA) and all of its sister networks including Radio Free Asia, with an audience of 60 million people. The Administration’s executive order placed all VOA staff on administrative leave. Libby Liu, CEO of Whistleblower Aid and longtime President of Radio Free Asia issued the following statement:

The Trump administration has shuttered the Voice of America (VOA) and all of its sister networks, dismantling news services that have provided news and information to hundreds of millions of people in authoritarian regimes, like China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, where such information is blocked.  Additionally, all VOA personnel have been placed on administrative leave one day after President Donald Trump signed the executive order.

In the wake of the Trump administration’s decision today to revoke numerous security clearances, including those of former top Biden administration officials and Whistleblower Aid’s co-founder Mark Zaid, Libby Liu, Whistleblower Aid’s President and CEO, issued the following statement:

Whistleblower Aid’s Andrew Bakaj spoke out forcefully in the wake of today’s Oval Office confrontation between President Trump and President Zelensky. He addressed the parallels between the infamous “Ukraine phone call” reported by a whistleblower he represented and today’s events in the Oval Office, as well as the past month’s dismantling of government oversight and

The CIA is investigating an unclassified email sent to the White House that risked exposing the identity of undercover officers. Responding to a request to identify all recent recruits and probationary employees for possible termination, this dangerous and careless email exposed identities of operatives to foreign hacking, putting lives at risk and damaging national security

After DHS threatened to use polygraphs against its own employees to catch those who have spoken to the press or to non-profits, Whistleblower Aid’s Chief Legal Counsel Andrew Bakaj issued the following statement:

The White House fired Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger, who is challenging his illegal firing in court. The Office of Special Counsel is a hub of whistleblowing inside the federal government and an indispensable champion for protecting federal whistleblowers from retaliation. Whistleblower Aid’s Andrew Bakaj issued a statement in response: “The attack on the Special Counsel’s

“If you want transparency to root out waste, fraud and abuse, you need whistleblowers, and they need a clear and safe reporting pathway through the Inspector General offices that the Trump Administration has been tearing down,” Whistleblower Aid Chief Legal Counsel and former IG investigator Andrew Bakaj said today.

As Whistleblower Aid continues to support whistleblowers across the federal government, we are encouraged that the Senate Democrats have launched a dedicated portal for government employees today. This effort is a welcome response to the concerted and ongoing actions by the Trump Administration to dismantle accountability mechanisms at the DOJ, FBI and offices of Inspectors General, install political loyalists and purge career employees who have served with distinction and integrity. In short – the Trump Administration has made silencing whistleblowers a top priority. 

Attorney General Pam Bondi has shuttered the FBI Foreign Influence Task Force, citing “risks of further weaponization,” according to a report today. This task force was a crucial bulwark against foreign influence, particularly in American elections, and its disbanding sends a dangerous signal to America’s adversaries abroad. Whistleblower Aid’s Andrew Bakaj issued the following statement

The expansion of the so-called federal buy-out to the CIA shows that the attempts to drastically cut the federal workforce will not take into account even national security considerations. Combined with the sharing of the names of recent hires with the White House outside of classified channels is reckless and dangerous – both to national

Whistleblower Aid calls on the Forest Service and the U.S. Government to conduct a full and impartial investigation

New victims and never-before-seen video depositions make clear that Garcetti tolerated sexual abuse while serving as Mayor of Los Angeles and lied about what he knew under oath – twice. 

Airbnb spent much of 2023 scaling back and undermining the work of its team tasked with removing individuals affiliated with dangerous and extremist organizations from the platform. A former member of that team has exposed that Airbnb has been deceiving its customers and shareholders by continuing to publicly tout their policy and commitment to safety while internally abandoning it. 

Whistleblower Aid client identifies 22 additional companies committing similar violations– urges industry-wide enforcement. Washington, D.C., April 12, 2024 –  In light of an FTC action this week that will ban a major addiction treatment company from sharing user data with third-party advertisers, Whistleblower Aid is calling for enforcement against 22 additional digital health providers engaging in similar violations. Whistleblower Aid client and FTC whistleblower Dr. Jonathan Stoltman uncovered the systemic sharing of sensitive opioid addiction patient data by these mobile health providers, which were made public in a series of reports put out by the Opioid Policy Institute.

Whistleblower Aid represents Shannon Van Sant, a former employee of SupChina (later rebranded as The China Project). Ms. Van Sant has decades of experience reporting on and in China. Her expertise in the global architecture of Chinese influence operations and her first-hand experiences make her a credible and important voice on this topic.

The Harvard Kennedy School’s media statement in response to Dr. Joan Donovan’s whistleblower disclosure is a missed opportunity for transparency related to fundraising and donor influence. Whereas Dr. Donovan provides nearly 250 pages of evidence in support of her claims, including voluminous correspondence with HKS staff, the university’s terse and non-specific denial is inadequate and bereft of any substantiation whatsoever. It underlines the need for a thorough and independent investigation. 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDecember 4, 2023 MEDIA CONTACTRadim Dragomaca, [email protected] Harvard Gutted Initial Team Examining Facebook Files Following $500 Million Donation from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Whistleblower Aid Client Reveals University’s Former Disinformation Expert Joan Donovan Calls for Investigation  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Harvard University dismantled its prestigious team of online disinformation experts after a foundation run by

Sexual Harassment Settlement Exposes Culture of Abuse and Evasion under Former Mayor Eric Garcetti, Whistleblower Aid Says

New evidence comes in the wake of scathing independent audit, underscoring why former Special Assistant United States Attorney and Whistleblower Aid Client came forward.

An independent audit of the Johnson City Police Department’s (JCPD) handling of sexual assault cases revealed systemic deficiencies in line with those reported by Kateri Dahl, former Special Assistant United States Attorney, represented by Whistleblower Aid. Ms. Dahl raised concerns about this pattern of investigative misconduct relating to sexual assault victims, and her disclosure is now supported by this independent audit. 

The U.S. Senate voted today to confirm Eric Garcetti as U.S. Ambassador to India despite well-documented allegations that Garcetti enabled and covered up persistent sexual abuse by a top aide and lied about it under oath. Whistleblower Aid had urged Senators of both parties to reject the nomination, briefing them on the extensive evidence underlying the allegations and serving as legal counsel to Naomi Seligman, a former communications director to Garcetti, who made a powerful appeal to senators earlier this week on CNN.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 13:8 in support of advancing the nomination of former L.A. mayor Eric Garcetti as U.S. Ambassador to India. The vote comes after more than 600 days of delays and shortly after Senator Rubio placed a hold on the nomination, complicating Garcetti’s path to a floor vote by the full Senate. Rubio cited Garcetti “ignor[ing] credible sexual assault accusations in his prior office,” echoing concerns expressed by senators on both sides of the aisle.

Whistleblower Aid, which has led the charge in demonstrating how former Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti covered up sexual harassment and abuse in his office and lied about it under oath, welcomed Senator Rubio’s announcement today that he is putting a hold on Garcetti’s nomination as U.S. Ambassador to India.

In the wake of reports that the Biden administration is renominating Eric Garcetti as U.S. ambassador to India, despite his failure over almost eighteen months to secure Senate confirmation, Whistleblower Aid CEO Libby Liu issued the following statement: “Renominating Eric Garcetti does a grave disservice to victims and survivors of workplace sexual harassment who have documented how, as mayor of Los Angeles…

Whistleblower Aid represents Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, who served as Security Lead on Twitter’s senior executive team until January 2022. In July, on Mudge’s behalf, Whistleblower Aid filed lawful, protected disclosures with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and with committees of jurisdiction in Congress concerning Twitter, Inc.

Whistleblower Aid represents a former special federal prosecutor with protected, lawful disclosures to the U.S. Department of Justice concerning events in Johnson City, Tennessee. We encourage anyone who knows about these events, victims and those with information, to contact Whistleblower Aid. We can provide you with free, privileged and confidential legal advice. Whistleblower Aid is

Whistleblower Aid has filed a complaint accusing Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti of felony perjury with respect to his role in covering up repeated instances of sexual assault and harassment by his close advisor Rick Jacobs. The complaint, filed yesterday on behalf of Naomi Seligman, Mayor Garcetti’s former director of communications, provides substantial evidence including

Whistleblower Aid is proud to announce that Naomi Seligman, a nationally recognized leader in strategic communications and accountability, is joining the organization in the new role of Vice President of External Affairs, effective immediately. Seligman will work with whistleblowers to help maximize the impact of their disclosures and press for accountability from the organizations and agencies where they have exposed wrongdoing.

Tech companies wield vast power, but face limited accountability, and are able to hide socially significant decisions and harmful working conditions behind corporate secrecy. Whistleblowers disclosing misconduct have had astonishing impact—but the process remains fraught. Join Ifeoma Ozoma, the AI Now Institute and Whistleblower Aid for a tech-worker focused webinar, covering the basics of safe whistleblowing and your rights as a worker.

In Ronan Farrow’s new book, Catch and Kill, Farrow narrates his efforts over several years as he worked to report rape accusations against film industry big wig Harvey Weinstein. One of the book’s main narratives, also told in a New Yorker article, details the courageous account of the Whistleblower Aid client, Igor Ostrovskiy. Trying to block the rape story from becoming