Press Releases

Washington, D.C. October 11, 2012 – Yesterday, the Obama Administration issued a Presidential Policy Directivedesigned to “protect” national security whistleblowers. The National Whistleblower Center recognizes the Directive as a small step forward, but strongly criticizes it as failing to provide any real or substantive legal rights for national security employees. The Directive appears on its face […]

Washington, D.C. September 27, 2012 — The National Whistleblower Center and the No FEAR Coalition announce their support for the immediate passage of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) for federal employee whistleblowers.  The decision to support the Senate version (S. 743) of the WPEA came after the Senate removed a final poison pill from […]

The Washington Post published year-end articles that highlighted three ongoing projects of the National Whistleblower Center. In an article published on December 26, “Top 10 stories in the federal workforce in 2012“, The Washington Post cited the scandal involving FDA electronic spying on its own scientists who blew the whistle on agency misconduct. The Post ranked […]

Washington, D.C. September 10, 2012 – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued a decision in the whistleblower case of former UBS banker Bradley C. Birkenfeld. Mr. Birkenfeld’s brother, Douglas Birkenfeld, and his attorneys, Stephen M. Kohn and Dean A. Zerbe, will make statements at a National Whistleblower Center press conference tomorrow, September 11, 2012, […]