Joseph Carson, an Energy Department nuclear safety engineer originally from Brooklyn, NY, walked into the moral hazard of working for the U.S. government nearly as soon as his career started. The very first program he worked in during the Cold War led to the development of a nuclear weapon that could kill 20 million people in one fell swoop. The alarm bells immediately started ringing as the federal employee considered his work in the context of the engineering code of ethics in which he had been educated. What started as disclosures about the safety of federal workers in 1991–a report he said his manager immediately threw away–later became charges about reprisals against him for blowing the whistle on his employer.
Unlike many other whistleblowers, however, Carson has somehow hung on to his job for decades and even continued to receive bonuses despite the years of legal headaches and expenses he’s caused not only the Department of Energy, but the White House itself. In fact, now his main official complaints are about how the whistleblower adjudication infrastructure is failing. On this week’s “Scheer Intelligence,” Carson joins host Robert Scheer to talk about the years of formal complaints he’s issued against federal government agencies, and why, at age 68, he refuses to retire from what he openly calls a “corrupt” DOE.
During the episode, Carson goes so far as to challenge “Scheer Intelligence” listeners to report him through the U.S. Office of Special Counsel via...
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