whistleblower

John Gorman, the former ArmorGroup Kabul project manager turned whistleblower whose allegations against the company I wrote about yesterday, met with aides to Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) in 2007 to share with the Government Affairs Committee chairman his account of widespread fraud with the company State chose to protect its Kabul embassy.
CBS News confirms that [...]

I think I made the case pretty strongly in my piece today on why the failure of the stimulus bill to protect private contractor whistleblowers, and the omission in the Senate version to even protect federal employees, is a serious problem.
Now a coalition of good-government and whistleblower advocacy groups has written a powerful response to [...]

The stimulus package ushers in new contracting oversight, but neglects to fully protect the whistleblowers at the front lines of reform.

Since former (man, it feels good to type that) Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) was convicted on seven felony corruption charges, there have been some serious twists in the case against the 85-year-old man known as “Uncle Ted” to Alaskans.
Just a few weeks ago, a whistleblower came forward reporting that the Justice Department had “intentionally schemed” [...]