Whistleblowers Protection Blog


"A source, not only for whistle-blower news, legislative updates, and whistle-blower community events, but also a comprehensive archive of whistle-blower court decisions and statutes from all over the country."

Author: Marshall Chriswell is the blawg's editor-in-chief and director of Public Affairs of the National Whistleblower Center in Washington, D.C. Also contributing are Richard Renner, the center's legal director; advocacy director Lindsey M. Williams and deputy director of development and public outreach Sam Dratch.

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Recent Posts from Whistleblowers Protection Blog


  • International Whistleblower News (November 16, 2009)

    [UK] Develin, Kate, “NHS whistleblower ‘sacked for revealing dumped x-ray scans’,” Telegraph.co.uk, November 14, 2009. Dr Otto Chan, a consultant radiologist, believes that he was labelled a troublemaker after the revelations about the Royal London.…

  • CIA to pay $3 million so Horn will not oppose vacating Judge's decision

    The CIA has decided to pay Richard Horn $3 million for a unique settlement of a fifteen (15) year-old spying case. The government not only wants Horn to dismiss the case and release the CIA…

  • International Whistleblower News (November 9, 2009)

    [Russia] Humphries, Conor, “Russia fires police YouTube whistleblower,” Reuters, November 8, 2009. A junior Russian policeman was fired on Sunday after making a YouTube appeal to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accusing senior officers of corruption,…

  • Robert MacLean testifies at MSPB hearing

    Robert MacLean is the former U.S. Air Marshal who blew the whistle on a Bush Administration budget plan to shut down the Air Marshal program -- just as a terror alert went out. His public…

  • The Next Big Thing In False Claims Act Litigation

    “Securities fraud,” said the state official and with that about 20 attorneys, all experts in False Claims Act litigation, fell off their chairs. We were in a small room, down the hall in the last…

  • International Whistleblower News (November 3, 2009)

    [Turkey] “Prosecutors looking for ways to contact whistleblower,” Today’s Zaman, November 3, 2009. Prosecutors conducting a probe into a clandestine group known as Ergenekon are searching for a way to reach a military officer who…

  • Press Freedom Index 2009

      On October 20, 2009, Reporters Without Borders (RWB), a Paris-based international non-governmental journalism organization that advocates freedom of the press, published Press Freedom Index 2009, its eighth annual world press freedom catalogue. According to…

  • Indonesian Anti-Corruption advocate visits NWC

    Emerson Yuntho is Deputy Coordinator of Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW). Today he visited the offices of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) to share ideas about fighting corruption and protecting witnesses from retaliation.  Pictured here are…

  • Comment on Metro safety, the STAA and the Washington Post

    On October 14, the Washington Post ran a story on Metro drivers going "Strictly by the Book" (p. B-1). The story highlights safety issues that reach beyond Metro. That the Post's writer would be concerned…

  • Jury awards Colin Browne $282,000

    Mr. Colin Browne worked as a program advisor for the UDC Career Counseling and Development Center. Throughout his term, he discovered many flaws within the system. For example, Kevin Naiker, the former Director of UDC’s…