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ABC News’ Brian Hartman Reports: Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, released a remarkable letter today that nine staffers from the Food and Drug Administration have sent to President Obama. The staffers are ecstatic about new leadership at the FDA but want bad managers who still remain on the job to be run out of the agency, […]

Washington, D.C. April 1, 2009. Today, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) joined 10 other public interest groups in urging President Obama to reaffirm his campaign commitments to strengthen whistleblower protections. The letter urged the President to strongly endorse legislation that would protect all federal employees, including national security employees, from retaliation and give them access to jury […]

FDA Acting Commissioner Frank Torti’s leaked email to agency employees regarding the agency’s confidentiality policies has landed the commish in hot water with Sen. Charles Grassley, Dow Jones reports. Torti’s March 13 email tells employees to keep propriety information to themselves. Included in that long list was privileged intra-agency and inter-agency communications, including emails, memos and letters. It also […]

March 24 (Bloomberg) — Government employees who think public safety is being compromised may be deterred from speaking out because of a memorandum from the acting head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Senator Charles Grassley said. The memo from the FDA official, Frank M. Torti, dated March 13 and sent to agency employees, warned that […]

With help from a former UBS banker, the Feds are demystifying how the Swiss do business. Inside the tradecraft. From the magazine issue dated Mar 23, 2009 Among the very rich, it’s known as “the nut.” That’s the amount of money they need to salt away for a “rainy day”-for when the bubble bursts or […]