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.

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.

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:

“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.

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