Ranking member of subcommittee for Opening Statement. Thank you, there chairman. And i know mr. Meadows will be here shortly. Federal employees who blow the whistle on waste, fraud and abuse are in the front lines in the effort to ensure that our government functions efficiently and effectively. This committee has a long history of strong bipartisan support for those whistleblowers and i want to thank the chairman, mr. Meadows, for holding todays hearing. Whistleblower protection is rooted in Civil Service protections. Due process and meritbased hiring and promotion free of discrimination, retaliation and political influence form the bedrock of the very whistleblower protections we are concerned about and have been for a long time on this commit even subcommittee. Five years ago, the bipartisan whistleblower protection enhancement act of 2012 significantly strengthened the rights of federal employees who disclose waste, fraud and abuse. This legislation marks substantial progress but a
I went through this for many years of course with the assistance of my publicist. Wikipedia senate but john highway. My publisher recently come my attorney eric raymond, my website Developer Team from massachusetts who is really exceptional to put up with my nonsense. He really captured my voice and it tells the story, not the spin, not ups site, but my site. Anybody who knows me knows that im here as the whistleblower. The story really hit home. By doing what i did, exposing the largest and longestrunning tests run in u. S. History as forever change the landscape of offshore banking. Around the world. Ive tried vigorously to assist and help our country as well as my own government. Unfortunately, my own government didnt like what i had decided we it will understand why this happened. When you affect rich and powerful people in this country get the short end of the stick and its very easy to ridicule and criticize me when in fact all the bigwigs are doing all the bad. Took on the bigge
I went through this for many years of course with the assistance of my publicist. Wikipedia senate but john highway. My publisher recently come my attorney eric raymond, my website Developer Team from massachusetts who is really exceptional to put up with my nonsense. He really captured my voice and it tells the story, not the spin, not ups site, but my site. Anybody who knows me knows that im here as the whistleblower. The story really hit home. By doing what i did, exposing the largest and longestrunning tests run in u. S. History as forever change the landscape of offshore banking. Around the world. Ive tried vigorously to assist and help our country as well as my own government. Unfortunately, my own government didnt like what i had decided we it will understand why this happened. When you affect rich and powerful people in this country get the short end of the stick and its very easy to ridicule and criticize me when in fact all the bigwigs are doing all the bad. Took on the bigge
Images of the white ford pickup truck as it left the parking lot around 7 00 this morning. So far, police have found no video cameras that captured the collision itself. The pedestrian ended up in the street near the curb at Florence Court where he was eventually declared dead. Police are not sure what he was doing during the time of the collision, whether on the sidewalk, trying to cross the street even though there are no crosswalks or doing something else. Police have interviewed at least one person who saw the accident and we spoke with another person who heard it. I kind of heard a hit but it wasnt like car hit, so i didnt really i wasnt interested in checking. And then the car sped off, thats all high heard. When you heard it sped off, how did you know it was speeding off. You could tell, it was burning rubber. According to police, the suspected driver jumped a sidewalk, cut through a gravel parking lot and sped off westbound on florence. The surveillance camera captured a licens
Mr. Rodriguez was trying to figure out what caused of this death, but more importantly, they attempt to establish that it was Excessive Force that caused his death. Now, the Sheriffs Department declined to comment on the case citing an investigation. Tonight a suspect is in custody. Michelle roberts is live outside the walmart in san leandro with more on what happened. Michelle, some frightening moments for shoppers today. Yeah, really scary and bizarre what happened here this afternoon. The store has opened. It opened about an hour ago. Still many people checking out the damage inside. Take a look at the cell phone video. This was shot about 1 30 by a shopper inside. You can see Halloween Costumes on fire and smoke filling the store. You can see walmart employees using fire extinguishers to contain the flames and store security detained the suspect until police arrived. He was taken to the hospital as a precaution and has been arrested on suspicion of arson. Hes described as a 40yearo