Explainer: How might the Trump whistleblower mystery unfold?
By Jan Wolfe | Reuters | September 20, 2019 U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is in a standoff with leaders of the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives…
DNI Whistleblower Tip About Trump Phone Call Alarms Former Intel Officials
By Josh Kovensk | Talking Points Memo | September 19, 2019 The mystery over what a confidential intelligence community whistleblower is trying to tell Congress deepened late…
Subpoena showdown: Congressional fights highlight differences from court processes
It’s been a near-constant headline in recent weeks. Congress subpoenas a member of the Trump administration seeking documents and information not available to the public. The…
Intel Community Watchdog Now Runs Revamped Whistleblower Center
A year after his swearing in as the central inspector general for the 17-agency intelligence community, Michael Atkinson laid out details of how the IC’s new Center for…
Federal employees should prepare for more nimble and aggressive security clearance decision-making process
Changes to the federal government’s security clearance processes are on their way. Calling it the first major update in 50 years, the federal government currently is laying out…
Furloughed Feds Should Avoid GoFundMe, Ethics Office Says
Many furloughed federal workers took dramatic steps to stay financially afloat during the recent government shutdown. Some took on second jobs; others took out loans through their…
Can an aviation strike end the government shutdown?
With 800,000 federal workers in lines at food banks, calling in sick and looking for other jobs during the longest government shutdown in history, some labor leaders are calling…
Big banks offer to help federal workers on a “case-by-case basis”
This week, the estimated 800,000 government employees affected by the partial government shutdown are about to start missing their paychecks, and lenders are stepping in with…
Democratic-Run House Creates New Whistleblower Ombudsman
During their first hours controlling the House in the 116th Congress, Democrats on Jan. 3 and Jan. 4 pushed through an array of single-chamber rules changes that…
Grassley Wins Declassification of CIA Documents on Monitoring Whistleblowers
After a four-and-a-half year wait, one of the Senate’s key whistleblower advocates succeeded in arranging the declassification of documents he says show that the CIA…