Both parties foster a culture that too often has enabled predators in positions of power while cowing those around them into silence.
Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney-turned-whistleblower Ryan Schwank is worried that a proposal to give ICE more funding may set up a situation where Congress will not be able to do oversight for years.
Nicholas Enrich’s tell-all memoir, “Into the Wood Chipper,” has advice for others caught between their conscience and their government.
Writing for Just Security, Mark Zaid and Andrew Bakaj share an urgent to-do list for the new DHS Secretary, Markwayne Mullin. The former Oklahoma senator is inheriting a broken department, which—under his predecessor—flouted centuries-old laws and norms, dangerously abridged ICE cadet training and used deadly force against US citizens. But Mullin can still turn the department around if he chooses, and he should start by listening to whistleblowers.
“Those cadets have every intention of being good law enforcement officers, but they are being set up to fail. They are being set up to be a danger to the rest of us… What’s coming down the road from what I saw at that academy is a clear and direct threat to everyone in this country.”
Noem defended the department’s authority to enter private homes using “administrative immigration warrants” — documents issued within the executive branch and not signed by a judge — and made clear that the Department of Homeland Security considers that authority lawful.
Previously unreported records also offer new details about what was cut from ICE’s basic training program. Concerns about the quality of ICE agents’ training have mounted for months.
WhistleblowerAid.org client Ryan Schwank says the academy where he trained cadets is “deficient, defective and broken.” He says it’s part of the administration’s effort to churn out new officers and increase arrests. Geoff Bennett spoke with Schwank and his attorney, David Kligerman.
Ryan Schwank, a former ICE academy instructor, testifed that ICE “is lying to Congress and the American people” about its training program
“I am here because I am duty-bound to report the legally required training program at the ICE academy is deficient, defective and broken,” Schwank said. Ryan Schwank’s comments during a forum held by congressional Democrats come at a time of intense scrutiny of the officers tasked with carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
In an opening statement, Sen. Blumenthal thanked WhistleblowerAid.org client Ryan Schwank, who resigned from ICE earlier this month, and other whistleblowers for coming forward to expose abuses.
“They ceased all of the legal instructions regarding use of force. This means that cadets are not taught what it means to be objectively reasonable, the very standard which the law requires them to meet when deciding whether or not to use deadly force. Our jobs as instructors are to teach them so well that they can make split second decisions about what they can and cannot do in life or death situations,” he added.
A former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement instructor responsible for educating new ICE officers on proper use of force said the agency’s efforts to rapidly scale up its ranks will place recruits on the streets without the training they need to lawfully carry out immigration enforcement.
“Without reform, ICE will graduate thousands of new officers who do not know their constitutional duty, do not know the limits of their authority, and do not have the training to recognize an unlawful order,” wrote the instructor, Ryan Schwank, in an excerpt of prepared remarks he planned to deliver before Congress.
Bakaj, the whistleblower’s lawyer, has accused Gabbard of moving too slowly to share the complaint with Congress and of trying to hide it from lawmakers.
Whistleblower Aid, the group representing the whistleblower, criticized Cotton for failing to address the lengthy delay.
“With all due respect, @SenTomCotton’s defense of @ODNI and @DNIGabbard’s stonewalling — for eight months — a whistleblower complaint with grave national security implications sounds an awful lot like scripted talking points aimed at covering up a damning complaint and preventing Congress from exercising critical oversight,” the group wrote on X.
“What is it they’re trying so hard to hide?”
The intercepted conversation was a key catalyst for the highly classified whistleblower complaint filed by a U.S. intelligence official last May that accused Gabbard of limiting the sharing of the conversation within the U.S. intelligence community for political purposes, the people said.
Andrew Bakaj, the whistleblower’s attorney, said his client alleges Gabbard bypassed normal National Security Agency distribution by delivering a paper copy to Wiles and directing the agency to route classified details only to herself rather than in a more widely disseminated report.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, moved to lock down an intelligence intercept that referred to someone close to President Trump, the report said.
The whistleblower’s lawyer told CNN on Tuesday night that he has yet to receive security guidance on sharing the complaint with the broader intelligence committees, beyond just the Gang of 8.
“They’re also flagging executive privilege concerns, and for me, executive privilege concerns means that this somehow involves the White House,” Andrew Bakaj said.
In a letter late Tuesday to Gabbard, Bakaj—who has not seen the complaint himself due to its high classification—said he and his client had received “zero guidance” on how to contact the intelligence committees directly about the complaint. Bakaj said he would do so on his own next week to provide an unclassified briefing on Gabbard’s conduct “and the underlying intelligence concerns” raised in the complaint.
The filing of the complaint has prompted a continuing, behind-the-scenes struggle about how to assess and handle it, with the whistleblower’s lawyer accusing Gabbard of stonewalling the complaint. Gabbard’s office rejects that characterization, contending it is navigating a unique set of circumstances and working to resolve the issue.
The director of national intelligence tried to defend holding up a whistleblower report for eight months. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s office just tried to clean up allegations she buried a whistleblower complaint—but made an even bigger mess, instead.
An intelligence community watchdog has handed over a highly classified whistleblower complaint that includes an allegation of wrongdoing by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to top congressional leaders, following months of delay tied to classification disputes, a government shutdown, and leadership turnover at Gabbard’s office, CBS News has learned.
“After nearly eight months of taking illegal actions to protect herself, the time has come for Tulsi Gabbard to comply with the law and fully release the disclosure to Congress,” WhistleblowerAid.org Chief Legal Counsel Andrew P. Bakaj said.
The whistleblower’s allegations are so highly classified that documents are being kept locked in a safe and the complaint still hasn’t been shared with Congress
“After nearly eight months of taking illegal actions to protect herself, the time has come for Tulsi Gabbard to comply with the law and fully release the disclosure to Congress,” WhistleblowerAid.org Chief Legal Counsel Andrew P. Bakaj said.
The November letter from Bakaj was shared with the House and Senate intelligence panels, making them aware of the complaint’s filing for the first time. Months later, lawmakers still haven’t received the complaint itself. Some Democratic staffers on the intelligence committees have tried to learn more about the complaint in recent weeks, with little success, congressional aides said.
The complaint is so highly classified that Bakaj said he hasn’t been able to view it himself. The Wall Street Journal couldn’t learn the substance of the allegations.
Any legal novice could point out the problem with the Trump administration’s view on warrants.
Democratic lawmakers and constitutional rights experts expressed outrage after reports that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials had written a memo stating that deportation agents are allowed to enter immigrants’ homes — by force, if necessary — without a judicial arrest warrant.
With an Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo that allows officers to enter homes without a judicial warrant, the Trump administration is seeking to usurp guardrails that are enshrined in the Fourth Amendment and have protected Americans’ civil liberties for centuries, experts in constitutional law and immigration policy told CNN.
ICE memo allows agents to enter homes without judicial warrant: WhistleblowersA U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo authorizes agents to enter homes of those suspected of being in the U.S. illegally with an administrative warrant, according to a whistleblower group.
The memo, seen by The Washington Post, was included in a disclosure to U.S. senators by Whistleblower Aid, a legal group representing two government employees.
Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press. The Morning Joe panel discusses.
The policy was revealed in a May 12 memo whistleblowers shared with a U.S. senator.
A whistle-blower group said a memo apparently signed by the leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement violated constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure.
An internal ICE memo from May 2025, revealed by whistleblowers on Wednesday, shows the agency authorized officers to enter people’s homes without obtaining a judicial warrant in cases of people with deportation orders. David Kligerman, special counsel and senior vice president at Whistleblower Aid, joins “The Daily Report” to discuss.
Two whistleblowers will testify in an unofficial housing discrimination hearing led by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. The hearing will focus on allegations that the US Department of Housing and Urban Development is not enforcing federal law to protect renters and buyers from discrimination.
In early May, with the assistance of the legal advocacy organization Whistleblower Aid, Ollivant submitted his declaration to state and federal authorities expanding on his previous claims.
Two former employees at Meta are alleging that the company suppressed child safety research, especially in the world of virtual reality.
There are troubling new allegations surrounding Meta and whether it is protecting children on its platforms. A pair of whistleblowers outlined details on Capitol Hill, accusing the social media giant of suppressing safety information.
Two former Meta employees are testifying about child safety research they say was buried by the social media giant. Washington Post Staff Writer Naomi Nix and Roger McNamee, former advisor to Mark Zuckerberg, join Katy Tur to explain more.
At a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing titled “Hidden Harms: Examining Whistleblower Allegations that Meta Buried Child Safety Research” two former employees of Meta testified to lawmakers that the tech company deleted data about the harm its virtual reality platform poses to children.
There are new claims that Meta — the parent company of Facebook and Instagram — is suppressing concerns about child safety.
Facebook parent Meta Platforms, opens new tab put profit from its virtual-reality platform over safety, two former researchers told a Senate panel on Tuesday. Former Meta user experience researcher Cayce Savage said the company shut down internal research showing Meta knew children were using its VR products and being exposed to sexually explicit material.
A group of six whistleblowers have come forward with allegations of a cover-up of harm to children on Meta’s virtual reality devices and apps. They say the social media company, which owns Facebook and Instagram, and offers a line of VR headsets and games, deleted or doctored internal safety research that showed children being exposed to grooming, sexual
At her home in western Germany, a woman told a team of visiting researchers from Meta that she did not allow her sons to interact with strangers on the social media giant’s virtual reality headsets. Then her teenage son interjected, according to two of the researchers: He frequently encountered strangers, and adults had sexually propositioned
UnitedHealth argues the program is designed to curb “unnecessary” hospitalizations. The company has vigorously denied the allegations in the Guardian’s 21 May investigation, which was based on thousands of confidential corporate and patient records, public records requests and court files, interviews with more than 20 current and former UnitedHealth and nursing home employees, and two whistleblower declarations
“We were all stunned,” said Libby Liu, the chief executive of Whistleblower Aid, a group representing the person who filed the complaint. “Clearly the inspector general failed in their basic function here. If they don’t even open whistle-blower complaints, then what is going on?”
“I think he has demonstrated in several ways that he doesn’t respect the authority of the federal courts and doesn’t respect the role of the DOJ attorneys representing the United States before those courts,” our client told CNN.
Counsel for veteran whistleblower lawyer Mark Zaid told a federal judge in a hearing Friday that his client was well suited to fight a presidential directive that revoked Zaid’s security clearance. Zaid’s lawyer—Abbe Lowell, the former Winston & Strawn lawyer who spun off his own firm in May—told Judge Amir Ali in a hearing for preliminary
“It is hard to see how someone can argue that a nominee who graduated law school just three years ago and has never worked in this area of the law, is anything other than patently unqualified,” said David Kligerman of Whistleblower Aid, a nonpartisan organization that represents whistleblowers at OSC and other agencies.
US lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are raising concerns and seeking investigations in the wake of Guardian reporting on whistleblower claims about practices within UnitedHealth Group’s nursing home partnership programs.
UnitedHealth (UNH.N) shares fell more than 6% on Wednesday after the UK’s Guardian newspaper reported the company made secret payments to nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers, adding to the woes of the healthcare conglomerate. The alleged action, part of a series of cost-cutting tactics, has saved the company millions, but at times risked residents’
The Guardian’s investigation is based on thousands of confidential corporate and patient records obtained through sources, public records requests and court files, interviews with more than 20 current and former UnitedHealth and nursing home employees, and two whistleblower declarations submitted to Congress this month through the nonprofit legal group Whistleblower Aid.
A former Homeland Security official whom President Donald Trump accused of potentially “treasonous” conduct fears he is under federal investigation and plans to challenge what he calls an illegal attempt to silence critics. In an exclusive interview with NBC News, Miles Taylor said that he is prepared to “fight back” in court and that his
Whistleblower attorney Mark Zaid, known for representing the intelligence official whose complaint led to President Donald Trump’s first impeachment, sued the Trump administration Monday to reclaim his security clearance. The lawsuit comes in response to Trump’s March 22 memorandum revoking Zaid’s security credentials amid the president’s crackdown on lawyers he said weaponize the justice system. The
A prominent Washington attorney sued the Trump administration Monday over the revocation of his security clearance, calling it an act of “improper political retribution” that jeopardizes his ability to continue representing clients in sensitive national security cases. The lawsuit , filed in federal court in Washington, challenges a March presidential memorandum that singled out attorney
After having his security clearance revoked by President Donald Trump, high-profile whistleblower attorney Mark Zaid on Monday filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration seeking to have his security clearance restored — saying that it was revoked for “improper political retribution.” “The Trump Administration is seeking to neutralize someone viewed as an adversarial threat,” the
An attorney who represented a whistleblower key to President Trump’s first impeachment is suing the administration after they stripped his security clearance. Mark Zaid, a longtime national security lawyer, had his clearance stripped in March following an executive order from Trump.
Whistleblower Aid Chief Legal Counsel Andrew Bakaj and Whistleblower Aid client, Dan Berulis, join MSNBC on The Rachel Maddow Show.
Daniel Berulis and Andrew Bakaj join The Lead.
A federal cybersecurity specialist has alleged in a whistleblower statement made public Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) caused a security breach at the National Labor Relations Board and may have illegally removed sensitive data from the board.
A whistleblower complaint says that billionaire Elon Musk’s team of technologists may have been responsible for a “significant cybersecurity breach,” likely of sensitive case files, at America’s federal labor watchdog.
A user with a Russian IP address tried to log into National Labor Relations Board systems just minutes after the Department of Government Efficiency moved to access and extract troves of sensitive data from inside the agency, according to an extensive whistleblower disclosure released Tuesday.
In the first days of March, a team of advisers from President Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the Southeast Washington, D.C., headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board.
The National Labor Relations Board protects workers’ right to organize and investigates unfair labor practices. A whistleblower complaint filed by an IT staffer claims Elon Musk and his DOGE team gained access to sensitive data that could have led directly to a “significant cybersecurity breach.” Amna Nawaz discussed more with NLRB whistleblower Daniel Berulis and
“I don’t want to be a liability to them,” says Mark Zaid, a national security attorney and co-founder of Whistleblower Aid who has been defending whistleblowers of all party affiliations for decades.
“This is the first administration who has actually targeted me because of that.”
“This is the first administration who has actually targeted me because of that.”
A leaked memo from Nicholas Enrich, Whistleblower Aid client and acting assistant administrator for global health at USAID, shows that the agency estimated that 16,800,000 pregnant women across 48 different countries would not be reached through life-saving services as a result of the pause. Enrich was put on leave two days after sending the memo
In February, President Donald Trump said he was revoking the security clearance of Washington, D.C.-based lawyer Mark Zaid, who in 2019 represented a whistleblower who led to Trump’s first impeachment over a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. By early March, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, announced on social media that she had revoked
“I can’t fathom it doesn’t violate the Espionage Act,” Mark Zaid, a national security law expert, told The Hill. “You should also think of whether it violates the Federal Records Act by the fact that they had the messages set to destroy, with no indication, as far as we know, that they were preserving them, which is
It was a series of unheeded warnings, unanswered emails, blocked payments, health supplies stranded in a warehouse, culling of staff, misrepresentations to the public, and an underplaying of the seriousness of the spread of one of the world’s most deadly diseases. That’s how Nicholas Enrich, Whistleblower Aid client, described the Trump administration’s fumbling of its role in Uganda’s
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard denied that the information sent in the Signal group chat was classified during a hearing with the House Intelligence Committee. Former CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos and Whistleblower Aid founding legal partner Mark Zaid join Ana Cabrera to react.
In the middle of November, 2020, Kat Dahl, Whistleblower Aid client and a federal prosecutor in Johnson City, Tennessee, received an unusual assignment. Dahl had been appointed by the Department of Justice to work with the Johnson City police. Almost all her cases involved “run-of-the-mill” federal charges related to the possession of drugs or firearms,
Several Democratic lawmakers are demanding investigations and possibly resignations in the wake of the Trump administration’s military group chat leak. Andrew Bakaj, attorney and former CIA intelligence officer, joins “America Decides” to assess the potential legal ramifications from the debacle
“They want to control the information landscape and they don’t see any value in exporting a free press – and securing good will with the people who are the subjects of our enemies,” says Libby Liu, CEO of Whistleblower Aid and the former Radio Free Asia president.
“To destroy this reliable source of vital information overnight is not only unprecedented, it is also unlawful — as is the shuttering of the agency and placement of all of its employees on administrative leave,” David Kligerman of Whistleblower Aid said.
Veteran attorney Mark Zaid sits down with The Hill to discuss how President Trump is taking aim at lawyers and the legal community.
A lawyer who had full security clearances for nearly 30 years and a long history of representing whistleblowers of every political stripe — including the one who in 2019 revealed that President Donald Trump had called Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy for political dirt on Joe Biden — was among the people who had their security clearances revoked on Monday.
Watch Whistleblower Aid’s Andrew Bakaj and David Kligerman provide expert insight into the current state of government accountability mechanisms on 60 Minutes to better understand how our democracy is imperiled by the administration’s moves.
“We don’t know who’s looking at it in terms of what conflicts they may have. A lot of what the Defense Department does is procure things. It’s a pretty valuable snapshot that could be assessed,” said David Kligerman of Whistleblower Aid.
“When you move into a new house, you might check the sex offender registry for people around you—Facebook’s kind of doing the opposite. It’s basically saying, we’re going to tell the sex offenders where the kids are.” – David Erb, Whistleblower Aid client
“It is more about taking out in advance those who would otherwise be in a position to cause Trump 2.0 problems and instead, either replace them with loyalists where possible, or simply have someone in an acting capacity who is now intimidated,” said Mark Zaid, who is among the lawyers helping fired employees launch lawsuits against the administration.
“I’m doing the same thing I have done since the day I set foot in Washington, D.C., 32 years ago,” Mr. Zaid said. “All I do is hold the administration — whoever that is, Republican or Democrat — accountable for unlawful and ethical lapses.”
Whistleblower Aid’s legal co-founder Mark Zaid sits down with Laura Coates to discuss norm violations in the Trump Administration and what can be done to hold perpetrators responsible.
The Trump administration and the federal courts are on a crash course over the president’s executive actions. Trump allies say the courts cannot stop his orders. Whistleblower Aid and founding legal partner Mark Zaid joins Ana Cabrera to share his concerns on executive overreach.
MSNBC’s Katie Phang interviews Mark Zaid on his legal efforts to prevent retaliation against FBI agents who were just doing their job and worked on January 6 related cases.
National security attorney Mark Zaid joins “NewsNation Now” to discuss President Donald Trump revoking the security clearances of former President Joe Biden, New York Attorney General Leticia James and reportedly Zaid himself.
Whistleblower Aid’s Andrew Bakaj breaks down the dangers of the Trump Administration’s attack on FBI and CIA employees.
“Voters and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle should rise to the defense of our democracy when one side unilaterally dismantles the team charged with preventing it,” said Bakaj. “Blinding our law enforcement to these threats is an open invitation to foreign powers to help the President and his allies win future elections.”
“That is horrifying,” said Andrew Bakaj, a former CIA attorney. Foreign adversaries that hack unclassified US systems may be able to obtain the list and triangulate the recruits’ identities, potentially exposing “something that poses a significant national security risk not only to us but to the sources with whom we may be working with overseas,” he said.
Andrew Bakaj, an attorney who once served in the intelligence community’s office of inspector general, said the administration’s actions “underscore the extent to which the Trump administration is willing to sell out national security.”
“Our adversaries abroad are celebrating these purges,” Bakaj said.
Whistleblower Aid’s Andrew Bakaj predicted the firings will cast doubt on future reports by IG offices on waste, fraud and abuse in government that currently are widely heralded for their objectivity.
Mother Jones interview with Whistleblower Aid’s Mark Zaid on the challenges facing whistleblowers under a second Trump administration.
The voices of whistle-blowers must continue to be heard. And if the federal government will no longer provide them a haven, then private and nonprofit legal groups must step up to protect them in every way possible.
Ashcraft says managers retaliated against him and pushed ahead with their plans, often violating historic preservation and environmental protection laws by side stepping consultations with tribes, limiting input from state archaeologists and systematically suppressing scientific data.
Col. Earl Matthews, the top lawyer for the D.C. National Guard during the assault on the Capitol, said in a whistle-blower complaint that he was punished for contradicting the testimony of two top generals.
A nationally recognized online disinformation researcher has accused Harvard University of shutting down the project she led to protect its relationship with mega-donor and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
A prominent disinformation scholar is accusing Harvard University in a whistleblower disclosure of muzzling her speech and stifling — then dismantling — her research team as it launched a deep dive into a damning trove of Facebook files
In a whistleblower complaint, she breaks her silence over events that unsettled other misinformation researchers
Whistleblower Aid CEO Libby Liu and VP of external affairs Naomi Seligman were honored yesterday at ComNet with the Communications Network’s 2023 Clarence B. Jones Impact Award. SPOTTED: Clarence B. Jones, Bernice King, Samantha Kupferman and Sean Gibbons.
An attorney helping a former prosecutor in her whistleblower complaints against the Johnson City Police Department says a newly released report on how the department handled sexual assault investigations buttresses his client’s claims.
A group representing a federal prosecutor who claims her funding was cut by former Johnson City Chief of Police Karl Turner says the independent audit of Turner’s department has solidified her lawsuit against the agency.
OUT AND ABOUT — Whistleblower Aid co-hosted the launch of iHeart’s new podcast, “The Whistleblowers” and Miles Taylor’s new book “Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump” ($30) at E Street Cinema last night. SPOTTED: Michael Steele, Miles Taylor, Libby Liu, Stephanie Grisham, Peter Strzok, Sara Forden, Naomi Seligman and Mark Zaid.
Naomi Seligman is joining Whistleblower Aid as their first vice president of external affairs. She helped launch Media Matters for America and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, and more recently accused a former Eric Garcetti aide of sexual misconduct.
Twitter Inc misled federal regulators about its defenses against hackers and spam accounts, the social media company’s former security chief Peiter Zatko said in a whistleblower complaint.
Former head of security Peter Zatko, also known as “Mudge,” alleged in a whistleblower complaint that Twitter is systematically lying about its spam bot problem.
A well-known “ethical hacker” who was hired by Twitter to overhaul its cybersecurity alleged that the social media giant has become a security risk for the US after it reneged on a deal with the federal government to set up a system that adequately protects user data.
It’s not clear whether the complaint will significantly bolster Musk’s litigation against Twitter.
A Twitter whistleblower is alleging “extreme, egregious deficiencies by Twitter” related to privacy, security and content moderation, according to complaints filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice.
Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, a veteran cybersecurity expert widely respected in the industry, filed a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department last month.
Former Twitter security chief Peiter Zatko has accused the company of “lying” to Elon Musk about spam accounts on its platform, according to an explosive whistleblower complaint obtained by The Washington Post.
Whistleblower and legendary hacker Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko says he wants to finish the job he was hired for
Twitter’s former security chief alleges that the company is hiding the ball when it comes to spam and bots
Twitter’s former top security official has alleged that company executives endangered national security through “egregious deficiencies” in privacy and security and systematically misled users, members of its board, investors, and government officials about those vulnerabilities.
Twitter has major security problems that pose a threat to its own users’ personal information, to company shareholders, to national security, and to democracy, according to an explosive whistleblower disclosure obtained exclusively by CNN and The Washington Post.
Ex-cybersecurity backed Musk’s claim that firm ‘lies’ about number of bots
From the L0pht and Cult of the Dead Cow to DARPA and Google, Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko took unorthodox approaches to ‘make a dent in the universe’
In an explosive whistleblower complaint obtained by The Washington Post, former Twitter security chief Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko alleges the company misled regulators about lax security and spam
A local attorney’s whistleblower complaints about the Johnson City Police Department to the U.S. Department of Justice have gained additional merit as many more people have provided evidence to a non-profit helping that attorney, the group’s founder told News Channel 11.
In a missive to the American Alliance of Museums, the nonprofit legal organization Whistleblower Aid said the museum does not meet criteria for accreditation, citing “race- and gender-based hiring” and a culture of retaliation, among other issues.
Whistleblower Aid, a nonprofit organization that provides legal counsel for people who report governmental wrongdoing, is representing a former federal prosecutor in her complaint to the U.S. Department of Justice about her firing by the Johnson City Police Department.
Company accused of deliberately blocking Australian government pages as a negotiating tactic during debate over news media laws
CNET has obtained and is publishing whistleblower disclosures to Congress detailing how Facebook intentionally blocked Australian government pages as a negotiating tactic over a new bill lawmakers were considering.
More than a dozen accounts across YouTube and Twitter were posting false narratives about the war in line with the Kremlin’s talking points, without labels or other limits
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) has placed a “hold” on Eric Garcetti’s nomination to be ambassador to India, demanding details about how the Los Angeles mayor handled allegations of sexual harassment by his staff — and whether he’s been honest explaining them to the Senate.
A prominent U.S. senator made Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s path to becoming U.S. ambassador to India more difficult Thursday, saying he wants the confirmation vote delayed pending an investigation into whether Garcetti ignored sexual harassment allegations against his former senior advisor.
A pair of whistleblower complaints filed to the Justice and Treasury departments argue that Facebook violated laws by allowing accounts from sanctioned entities on the platform
Naomi Seligman, the former communications director to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, has filed a complaint with prosecutors claiming that Garcetti committed perjury when he denied under oath that he did not know about allegations of misconduct by a top aide and adviser.
Commentator John L. Smith says a federal appeals court “opened the door” for a whistleblower’s closely watched lawsuit to proceed against Nevada’s workplace safety agency.
A federal appeals court on Thursday revived most of a former medical-office supervisor’s lawsuit against four Nevada OSHA officials for outing her as whistleblower and allegedly conspiring with the employer to “scuttle” her retaliation complaint after she was fired.
A human resources supervisor who alleges she was fired from her job at a medical practice in retaliation for whistleblowing about unsafe practices may pursue claims against Nevada state officials for opening her to more retaliation and burying an investigation, the Ninth Circuit ruled.
The former Facebook employee says her goal is to help prompt change at the social-media giant
John Tye, founder of Whistleblower Aid, is one of the attorneys for the Facebook whistleblower, and he joins Morning Joe to discuss what evidence Frances Haugen has of the social media company’s practices.
Frances Haugen, a Facebook product manager who left the company in May, revealed that she had provided internal documents to journalists and others.
Lawmakers say they may seek documents and interview other witnesses
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Why journalists should be much more careful and how hate mail from the right is different from the left.
For the second time, a senior member of the staff of the House select committee on the Jan. 6 attack has been accused of retaliating against a whistle-blower in the Trump government.
Critics cite a report by the Department of Homeland Security inspector general that found that David B. Buckley had retaliated against a whistle-blower years ago.
A White House official who listened to President Trump’s July phone call with Ukraine’s leader described it as “crazy,” “frightening” and “completely lacking in substance related to national security,” according to a memo written by the whistle-blower at the center of the Ukraine scandal, a C.I.A. officer who spoke to the White House official.
Of all the disruptions unleashed by the Trump White House on how the federal government typically works, the saga of one small project, called the Open Technology Fund, stands out.
Director Salvador Salort-Pons was faulted in an independent review for authoritarian behaviour and insensitivity to race and gender
Audio recording of Detroit Institute of Arts meeting raises new leadership concerns. Christine Ferretti Mark Hicks.
Detroit Institute of Arts director Salvador Salort-Pons presided over an “autocratic” culture at the museum that saw women quit at higher rate than men.
As President Donald Trump’s chaotic first term winds down, his administration has faced a fresh surge of complaints from once high-ranking federal officials claiming they were sidelined as part of a White House-backed campaign to silence whistleblowers and clear out partisan adversaries.
When a Justice Department lawyer exposed the agency’s secret role in drug cases, leadership in the intelligence community retaliated.
The Detroit Institute of Arts said an outside law firm found there had been no skirting of conflict of interest rules in the loan of a painting by the museum director’s father-in-law.
A senior Department of Homeland Security official alleges that he was told to stop providing intelligence reports on the threat of Russian interference in the 2020 election, in part because it “made the President look bad,” an instruction he believed would jeopardize national security.
According to House Democrats, Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman filed a complaint with the Pentagon’s inspector general.
A whistle-blower accusation argues that conflict-of-interest rules to prevent self-dealing have been skirted at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
The non-profit legal aid firm which recently advised the whistleblower who triggered the impeachment of US President Donald Trump is to set up an Irish arm focused on possible corruption surrounding the handling of the Covid-19 crisis.
The senior Department of Homeland Security official who was thrust into the spotlight by President Donald Trump to describe the effects of temperature on COVID-19 has been the subject of misconduct allegations for his previous government work.
President Trump’s purge of our nation’s inspectors general is a crisis. It is a crisis that has a direct impact on the health and safety of all Americans, as well as the democratic protections that keep us from slipping into corruption.
The role of whistleblowers and attorneys who represent them has taken on crucial—perhaps existential—importance this year. With the outbreak of the coronavirus and the presidential impeachment trial, whistleblowers have aimed a 20,000-watt interrogation lamp at government agencies and officials at the highest levels.
“Members of this body used to care about the protection of whistleblower identities,” Schiff told the senators.
It’s been a week since MIT released a report that outlined its ties to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — and revealed details about an aggressive, often improvised process for accepting financial gifts at the elite institution.
Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election affects us all. American democracy should be government of of the people, by the people, for the people. Not government of, by, or for Vladimir Putin. Mr. Putin should have no say in American government. That’s why the Deputy Attorney General of the United States
The Black Cube chronicles: the private investigators … Weinstein and his lawyers hired Black Cube, an Israeli private intelligence agency.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency has reached a settlement with an employee who accused former Director Mel Watt of sexual harassment, ending a 16-month saga that spawned three government investigations and an eight-hour congressional hearing.
It’s been a week. But here we are. On Tuesday, Democrats in the House of Representatives announced that they intend to launch a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump to investigate communications between the president and Volodymyr Zelensky, the new Ukrainian president.
Lawyers for an anonymous whistleblower who filed a complaint alleging Donald Trump pressured a foreign government to interfere in the U.S. election have launched a fundraiser to cover the whistleblower’s legal aid.
John Napier Tye, the founder and CEO of the nonprofit law firm Whistleblower Aid, says the past 10 years have been a “Renaissance of whistleblowing” in America. His first client is now representing the anonymous Trump-Ukraine whistleblower.
The Department of Energy has been told to investigate allegations of corruption by William N. Bryan, the White House’s nominee for a senior post at the Department of Homeland Security, CQ Roll Call has learned.
John Tye founded the nonprofit law office Whistleblower Aid to support people who want to expose government and corporate wrongdoing.
On a spring day in late April 2014, officials at the CIA’s watchdog office slapped yellow crime-scene tape and heavy-duty combination locks on an employee’s office door after security walked him out of the building for allegedly accessing information he wasn’t supposed to have.
What happened when Jeffrey Epstein funded science and tech? Women were excluded.
Joi Ito’s fall from grace for his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was much deserved. But his style of corner-cutting ethics is all too common in tech.
The MIT-Epstein debacle shows ‘the prostitution of intellectual activity’. Time for a radical agenda: close the Media Lab, disband Ted Talks and refuse tech billionaires money
Mr. Ito stepped down on Saturday as the director of the Media Lab at M.I.T., less than a day after an article in The New Yorker described the measures taken to conceal the lab’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
How an elite university research center concealed its relationship with a sex offender—documents show MIT Media Lab accepted donations
Mel Watt set to retire Jan. 6 after being investigated for sexual harassment.
The Senate is examining William N. Bryan’s business dealings as he awaits confirmation as the homeland security under secretary for science and technology.
Christopher Sharpley, the acting Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency, is withdrawing his nomination after former colleagues alleged he retaliated against them for blowing the whistle on CIA IG officials’ alleged mishandling of evidence.
President Donald Trump might be able to get rid of special counsel Robert Mueller — but he can’t kill off the Russia probe.
It’s a nightmare scenario, but it’s not hard to imagine: President Trump, growing tired of the Russia investigation as it closes in on him, fires Robert S. Mueller III and moves to dismantle the Office of Special Counsel.
Simon Edelman, a former creative officer at the agency, claims that he was fired for sharing incriminating photographs with the press.
I was fired from my job as Department of Energy chief creative officer for releasing public domain photos of a meeting between Rick Perry, secretary of energy, and Robert Murray, CEO of Ohio-based Murray Energy, a large US coal company. There was no classified information present, I didn’t engage with either of them and I didn’t interrupt
A prominent Washington, D.C., lawyer who specializes in national security and free speech—often in the cases of current or former federal employees—has offered his firm’s services on a pro bono basis for any White House staffer who signed a nondisclosure agreement (NDA) at President Donald Trump’s urging.
Simon Edelman leaked a photo of coal baron Robert Murray’s “action plan.”
A staff photographer for the Department of Energy was recently fired and is now seeking whistle-blower protection after he leaked photos of Secretary of Energy Rick Perry meeting with a major coal mining CEO.
Rick Perry, President Trump’s buffoon of an Energy Secretary, got caught on camera hugging a coal baron before letting the businessman write federal regulations.
A former US Department of Energy photographer is accusing the US government of firing him for leaking photos of a private meeting between energy secretary Rick Perry and a big coal CEO.
A former Department of Energy photographer has filed a federal whistleblower suit alleging he lost his job after leaking photos of a private meeting between Energy Secretary Rick Perry and a major Trump donor who heads one of the country’s largest mining companies.
A Department of Energy photographer, who was fired after leaking photos of Secretary Rick Perry’s meeting with a big coal tycoon, has filed a complaint with the department’s Inspector General, according to the photographer, his attorney and a copy of the complaint shared with TPM.
A former photographer at the Department of Energy says he lost his job in retaliation for making public photos of a meeting between Secretary Rick Perry and a coal baron peddling a wish list of policy initiatives that would directly benefit his company.
Simon Edelman leaked photographs of Energy Secretary Rick Perry meeting privately with a major energy industry donor to President Trump.
Photographer Simon Edelman claims he was fired from his job at the Energy Department after capturing and leaking a controversial hug between Energy Secretary Rick Perry and a coal executive.
Energy Department photographer Simon Edelman is seeking whistleblower protection after the department placed him on administrative leave and seized personal belongings he kept at the office.
He’s seeking whistleblower protection
A whistleblower leaked a photograph of a private meeting between Energy Secretary Rick Perry and a coal baron who’s also a major Republican donor. Now he’s being threatened.
At a previously undisclosed March 29 meeting, Robert Murray gave Perry a hug and a wishlist. Six months later, Perry unveiled a controversial plan that echoed one of Murray’s proposals.
State Department officials are accusing Secretary Rex Tillerson of breaking the law in his decision not to list Myanmar, Afghanistan and Iraq as countries that use child soldiers. The officials signed a dissent memo, obtained by CBS News and first reported by Reuters a few months ago. Just this month, the case was reported to
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is reportedly being accused of violating a U.S. law regarding foreign militaries’ use of child soldiers.
The State Department on Tuesday defended Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s removal of three countries from a list of those using child soldiers, after officials upset about his decision wrote a critical dissent memo saying the action violates U.S. law.
A group of about a dozen U.S. State Department officials have taken the unusual step of formally accusing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson of violating a federal law designed to stop foreign militaries from enlisting child soldiers, according to internal documents reviewed by Reuters.
Two former CIA employees are accusing the Trump administration’s choice for CIA chief watchdog of being less than candid when he told Congress he didn’t know about any active whistleblower complaints against him.
Complaints by two former CIA employees against Christopher Sharpley are pending, but he testified he was “unaware” of them.
Internal scuffling threatens to dismantle the Intelligence Community Inspector General.
Expose Government Wrongdoing Former State Department official John Tye co-founded Whistleblower Aid with lawyer Mark Zaid.
Whistleblower Aid, a nonprofit, nonpartisan law firm, will represent federal employees who want to reveal wrongdoing.
Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) issued the following statement in support of the launch of Whistleblower Aid
“We want to earn the trust of people who have been 20-year veterans at the NSA.”
In a city filled with leakers, congressional committees with subpoena powers and investigative reporters, John N. Tye wants to make it easier to expose government wrongdoing without getting fired or breaking the law.
National security lawyer Mark Zaid and former State Department employee John Tye launched Whistleblower Aid on Monday.
The way John Tye tells it, we’ve all been missing the forest for the trees.
Over the course of two phone calls, the former State Department official told Ars that anyone who has been following the government surveillance discussion since the Snowden disclosures has been too concerned with things like metadata collection. Since last summer, journalists, politicians, and the public have been inundated with largely-unknown terminology, like “Section 215” and “Section 702.”
After President Obama delivered a speech in January endorsing changes to surveillance policies, including an end to the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of Americans’ domestic calling records, John Napier Tye was disillusioned.
In March I received a call from the White House counsel’s office regarding a speech I had prepared for my boss at the State Department. The speech was about the impact that the disclosure of National Security Agency surveillance practices would have on U.S. Internet freedom policies.
