Global Security Watch > May 31, 2006

Whistleblowers Not on Planet Supreme Court

[The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) Blog] 04-473): “We reject, however, the notion that the First Amendment shields from discipline the expressions employees make pursuant to their professional duties.” In other words, public employees who blow the whistle can be retaliated against. In making the decision, the court cites “the powerful network of legislative enactments””such as whistle-blower protection laws and labor codes””available to those who seek to expose wrongdoing.” Anyone who works with whistleblowers or who bothered to read the daily newspaper would know that this claim is complete fallacious - especially see the Congressional Research Service’s December 2005 report, the House National Security Subcommittee Briefing Memo on whistleblower protections from February 2006 (pdf), or POGO’s report from last year.

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May 31, 2006

Whistleblowers Not on Planet Supreme Court

[The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) Blog] 04-473): “We reject, however, the notion that the First Amendment shields from discipline the expressions employees make pursuant to their professional duties.” In other words, public employees who blow the whistle can be retaliated against. In making the decision, the court cites “the powerful network of legislative enactments””such as whistle-blower protection laws and labor codes””available to those who seek to expose wrongdoing.” Anyone who works with whistleblowers or who bothered to read the daily newspaper would know that this claim is complete fallacious - especially see the Congressional Research Service’s December 2005 report, the House National Security Subcommittee Briefing Memo on whistleblower protections from February 2006 (pdf), or POGO’s report from last year.

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May 24, 2006

GAO probes DHS grants to non-profits

 [Homeland Security Watch] The GAO issued a report today on the program at DHS to earmark $25 million/year of grant funds to non-profit organizations for their physical security, a total that was funded in FY 2005 and FY 2006. In FY 2005, DHS had delegated these funding decisions to cities, which apparently displeased the appropriators, because they inserted language in FY 2006 that said that these grant decisions should be “determined by the Secretary to be at high-risk of international terrorist attack”

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Kudos to Wired News for Publishing Whistleblower Docs

[The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) Blog] When former AT&T technician Mark Klein learned of a secret room installed in the company's San Francisco internet switching center, he was certain he had stumbled onto the Total Information Awareness program, a Defense Department research project that intended to scour databases across the country for telltale signs of terrorists.

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