It is time for President Biden to honor the history and contributions of whistleblowers who have made this a better nation. Today, a group of whistleblowers launched a campaign calling on President Biden to sign an Executive Order to make July 30th a permanent day of recognition for whistleblowers. This Executive Order would require every federal agency to provide their employees with whistleblower education each year on National Whistleblower Day.
The United States government has progressed in handling whistleblowers since 1998, when I notified the FBI of criminal conduct and malfeasance in Indian Country regarding Crimes Against Children. The coverup of sexual assault against Indian children and subsequent whistleblowing in 2001 on Theft from Ground Zero ended my highly successful twenty-five-year career in the FBI. Subsequently, Congress has passed numerous bills strengthening protections for whistleblowers. Congress’s work on behalf of whistleblowers has enabled the United States to become the leading country in the world in fighting corruption.
However, what will be critical in ensuring a healthy future for whistleblowing is something larger than any single piece of legislation: we need to change the culture. We must adopt a new way to handle employees who speak truth to power when faced with criminality, corruption, and misconduct. Most of the time, whistleblowers are met with marginalization, retaliation, and termination. We need to flip the script on societal...
A post claiming to list all the actions taken by the Home Minister in Kashmir in the last 10 days is going viral on social media. The posts list out 18 points, which include claims regarding citiz...