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The Government Accountability Project s Irvin McCullough joins the show to discuss a letter sent to the White House and Congress.
Last week, more than 200 groups called on President Biden and congressional leadership to enact stronger whistleblower protection laws, especially to ensure that the government is fairly spending trillions of dollars in pandemic relief funding. The groups, led by the Government Accountability Project, argue that the current whistleblower protections are outdated and insufficient to protect individuals who disclose wrongdoing in the federal government.
Irvin McCullough is a National Security Analyst at the Government Accountability Project. He joined the show to discuss the letter and the state of whistleblower rights.
Former Homeland Security Watchdog Officials Fostered ‘Divisiveness, Disorder and Dissension,’ Report Finds
This article features our Deputy Director of Legislation Irvin McCullough and was originally published here.
A former senior official at the Homeland Security Department’s inspector general office, along with two other high-ranking employees within the office, engaged in systematic unprofessional and divisive behavior that hindered the office’s ability to achieve its mission, according to a recent external investigation.
On May 4, 2020, the DHS IG engaged the international law firm Wilmer Hale to review the conduct of three senior IG office employees. It completed a 92-page report on December 14, 2020, and
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The three senior employees are no longer working for the IG office.
A former senior official at the Homeland Security Department’s inspector general office, along with two other high-ranking employees within the office, engaged in systematic unprofessional and divisive behavior that hindered the office’s ability to achieve its mission, according to a recent external investigation.
On May 4, 2020, the DHS IG engaged the international law firm Wilmer Hale to review the conduct of three senior IG office employees. It completed a 92-page report on December 14, 2020, and
Government Executive received a redacted version through the Freedom of Information Act. Wilmer Hale looked at 88 allegations, conducted 70 interviews and reviewed over 42,000 documents for its investigation that spanned late 2017 to 2020.
Column: How Trump cheapened one of America’s highest honors, the Medal of Freedom
This article features our National Security Analyst Irvin McCullough and was originally published here.
Nothing makes sense anymore.
The party of “law and order” just rampaged through the Capitol, bludgeoning a police officer to death and calling for the lynching of the vice president. The party’s leader, President Trump, has pardoned a rogues’ gallery of thieves and murderers. And now, in a last-gasp effort to prove there is nothing that Trump won’t defile, he’s been handing out Medals of Freedom like Chiclets to his unprincipled political acolytes and enablers.