“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.”

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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 1, 2025 MEDIA CONTACT Alexis Posel, [email protected] USAID Whistleblower Raises the Alarm in the Senate on the Trump Admin’s Reckless Termination of Life-Saving Global Health Programs 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)

“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