Real Clear Politics: Sharyl Attkinsson: Pass the Federal Whistleblower Protection Improvement Act

This article features Government Accountability Project’s Legal Director, Tom Devine, and was originally published here.

“Full Measure” host Sharyl Attkisson talks to Tom Devine from the “Government Accountability Project” about the Whistleblower Protection Improvement Act:

SHARYL ATTKISSON: Last week we brought you the interview with FBI whistleblower Stephen Friend. He claims things are so broken at high levels inside the nation’s premier law enforcement agency that he had to blow the whistle. It stalled and may have effectively ended his career at the FBI. Whistleblowers, and their efforts to expose wrongdoing in industry or the government, expose waste and fraud, help change the world in countless ways. But, behind the headlines, the fate of the whistleblower is too often doomed. Now, there are new efforts in Congress to help.

John Dodson, a sitting federal agent from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, is one of our time’s most important whistleblowers.

He went public in a report with me for CBS News in 2011, blowing the whistle on the Obama administration’s secret strategy to allow thousands of U.S. weapons to be sold to Mexican drug cartels, which the government denied. One of the operations was called “Fast and Furious.” This was an excerpt from my 2011 report:

(2011 report) An Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms senior agent assigned to this Phoenix office since...

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