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Censoring the Whistle!

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Just ponder for a moment all the disclosures that would not have been possible without the help of whistleblowers, who risk their jobs and even their liberty to report on corruption, fraud, and waste.

 

-        The Forensic Justice Project (FJP): After leading a successful six year campaign to reform the FBI's Forensic Crime Lab, the Center's Forensic Justice Project has taken on a review of misconduct in crime labs nationwide. The cases under review have impacted many potential wrongful convictions, resulted in the review of thousands of cases, and given freedom to wrongfully convicted defendants. In addition to reviewing misconduct at state crime labs, the FJP continues to monitor and expose problems within the FBI and FBI crime lab.

-        Winning reinstatement for the highest ranking nuclear whistleblower;

-        Collecting millions of dollars in damages on behalf of whistleblowers;

-        Using the Freedom of Information Act (United States) to force government agencies to release hundreds of thousands of pages of information documenting government misconduct;

-        Exposing misconduct at the World Trade Center and the 9/11 crime scenes, including theft by FBI agents and the mishandling of evidence;

-        Requiring the FBI to create whistleblower protection for FBI agents for the first time in U.S. history;

-        Forcing the FBI to accredit its crime lab;

-        Forcing the United States Attorney General to withdraw gag orders on government employees who desired to expose ethical violations to Members of Congress;

-        Successfully worked with Congress to ensure passage of critical whistleblower protection laws, such as the No-FEAR Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Corporate Whistleblower Protection Act, and the Civil Rights Tax Relief Act;

-        Forcing President Bush to withdraw his nomination for head of enforcement at the United States Environmental Protection Agency due to former retaliation against whistleblowers;

-        Preventing federal agencies from gagging employee speech critical of agency policies;

-        Banning "hush money" payments for all environmental and nuclear federal safety cases;

-        Exposing the vulnerabilities of U.S. nuclear power plants to airborne terrorist attacks and forcing reforms in the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission;

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William Fisher has managed economic development programs in the Middle East and elsewhere for the US State Department and the US Agency for International Development. He served in the international affairs area in the Kennedy Administration and now (more...)
 
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