Showing posts with label whistleblowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label whistleblowers. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Trump administration turns to US Supreme Court in bid to fire agency head | Reuters

The Justice Department asked the court to immediately lift a federal judge's February 12 order that temporarily blocked Trump's removal of Hampton Dellinger as the head of the Office of Special Counsel while litigation continues in the dispute, according to a copy of the filing reviewed by Reuters. The case has not yet been docketed by the court…

Saturday, May 25, 2024

Whistleblowers allege widespread abuses at detention camp

Prisoners held at an Israeli detention camp in the Negev desert are being subjected to widespread physical and mental abuses, with at least one reported case of a man having his limb amputated as a result of injuries sustained from constant handcuffing, according to two whistleblowers who worked at the site...

Friday, May 19, 2023

FBI revokes security clearances from Jim Jordan’s latest witnesses

When Jordan talks about his allied "whistleblowers" from within the FBI, who are eager to bolster his conspiracy theories about government agencies mistreating poor conservative victims, these are some of the folks he's referring to. 

As for the fact at least some of his alleged "whistleblowers" have also received financial support from a top Trump ally, the beleaguered committee chairman insisted this morning that this shouldn't undermine their credibility. 

No, of course not. Heaven forbid…

Sunday, February 18, 2018

U.S. Intelligence Shuts Down Damning Report on Whistleblower Retaliation -- The Daily Beast

The nation's top intelligence watchdog put the brakes on a report last year that uncovered whistleblower reprisal issues within America's spy agencies, The Daily Beast has learned. The move concealed a finding that the agencies—including the CIA and the NSA—were failing to protect intelligence workers who report waste, fraud, abuse or criminality up the chain of command. ....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/us-intelligence-shut-downs-damning-report-on-whistleblower-retaliation

Sunday, July 30, 2017

Government scientist says he was reassigned after speaking out about climate change -- ThinkProgress.org

A policy director and scientist at the Department of the Interior filed a whistleblower complaint with U.S. Office of Special Counsel after being relocated from his position helping Alaskan communities adapt to climate change. He was then assigned to "an unrelated job in the accounting office that collects royalty checks from fossil fuel companies,” he wrote Wednesday in a Washington Post op-ed. ....
https://thinkprogress.org/joel-clement-announcement-cffd775f833







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