Press Releases

Washington DC. February 15, 2012. Today, the Office of Special Council (OSC) opened a major investigation into the FDA’s targeted monitoring of employees who blew the whistle on defective medical devices. For the first time, the investigation into government monitoring of employees has been expanded beyond just the FDA. The OSC is evaluating new allegations of retaliatory surveillance […]

Representative Issa Calls FDA Purpose “Unlawful” Washington DC. February 10, 2012. Representative Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, launched an investigation into the FDA’s targeting of whistleblowers for highly intrusive monitoring and computerized searches. In a letter to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, Representative Issa said that interfering with an “employee’s right to provide […]

Washington, D.C. February 9, 2012.  Today, the United States government and numerous state governments reached a settlement agreement with five major banks to resolve lawsuits and investigations concerning foreclosure-abuses that fueled the financial “meltdown” and forced millions of Americans out of their homes. David K. Colapinto, the General Counsel of the National Whistleblowers Center, and […]

FDA Spy Program Documents Linked Here As reported in today’s Washington Post, six current and former employees of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)have filed a complaint against the FDA in U.S. District Court. The employees are seeking an injunction to stop the agency from illegally spying on employees’ privatecommunications to Congress and other oversight agencies. Linked here are key documents […]