Last week the campaign to make National Whistleblower Day permanent announced a milestone in its organization’s efforts. Since March, the grassroots, whistleblower-led campaign has organized its supporters to send over 10,000 letters to Congress and President Biden. The message being sent by the campaign, which can be found here, calls for President Biden to sign an Executive Order in support of whistleblowers. The proposed Executive Order would officially recognize July 30th as National Whistleblower Day (NWD), mandate federal agencies to notify their employees of their rights to blow the whistle, and require agencies to highlight past whistleblowers who have made those agencies stronger.
The campaign is being led by the whistleblowers Jane Turner (FBI), Sherron Watkins (Enron), Fred Whitehurst (FBI), Aaron Westrick (Law Enforcement Fraud), and Bunnatine Greenhouse (Haliburton). They see a permanent day dedicated to whistleblowers as crucial to “changing the culture” around what whistleblowers typically experience. Particularly important to the group is the idea that this Executive Order would combine both symbolic change as well as enforceable requirements for federal agencies.
Earlier this year Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) wrote a letter to President Biden calling for a Rose Garden Ceremony in honor of whistleblowers. The campaign for NWD applauded his action and connected it to their movement. While they fully support a Rose Garden Ceremony, the whistleblowers...
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