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Over 100 Whistleblowers and Organizations Urge the House Chairman against S.494Ineffective Senate Amendment Will Not Protect Whistleblowers or National SecurityNational Security Whistleblowers Coalition Sep. 25, 2006 |
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 For Immediate Release-September 25, 2006 Contact: Sibel Edmonds, National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, [email protected] Over 100 Whistleblowers and Organizations Urge the House Chairman against S.494 Ineffective Senate Amendment Will Not Protect Whistleblowers or National Security Alexandria, VA---In a letter sent today the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, together with a Consortium of over one hundred whistleblowers and organizations, urged Congressman Duncan Hunter, Chairman of the House Committee on Armed Services, to support house substitute for an ineffective Senate Amendment which will not protect national security during the final conference on the 2007 Defense Authorization Act. (To review the letter Click here.) “After 9/11, the need to effectively protect federal employee whistleblowers is obvious. We cannot afford a repeat of the mistakes that led to 9/11. It is simply intolerable that federal employee whistleblowers have less whistleblower protection then almost every other employee in the United States. A cop on the beat in New Jersey who complained about enforcement of Jaywalking laws had radically more whistleblower protections than an FBI agent complaining that a 9/11 hijacker illegally entered the United States. Congress must act now to protect all American’s from waste, fraud, abuse and security violations,” said Stephen M. Kohn, the President of the National Whistleblower Center and a leading expert on whistleblower laws. The Senate has incorporated a whistleblower protection provision (S.494) into the fiscal year 2007 defense authorization act. The Senate proposal does not properly protect national security. It excludes key government workers, including employees of the FBI and CIA, from any whistleblower protection whatsoever. According to Kohn, “the Senate proposal is so weak that a federal employee complaining about the illegal entry of one of the 9/11 hijackers into the United States would have radically less protection under federal law than a truck driver complaining about the amount of air in his tires. Unlike S.494, the House version, H.R. 5112, will protect federal employees and needs to be immediately substituted into the conference and enacted into federal law.” Bill Weaver, NSWBC Senior Advisor, stated: “What is needed is a complete overhaul of whistleblower protection, not a Frankenstein of appendages meant to correct problems that are in fact irreparable within the confines of existing legislation.” The House Government Reform Committee has conducted extensive hearings on the appropriate standards necessary to protect those patriotic civil servants willing to expose bureaucrats or politicians who are “weak” or incompetent on national-security issues. The Committee has taken leadership on drafting and passing real whistleblower protections intended to defend national security; H.R. 5112. It is not too dramatic to say that if the provisions in the Senate bill pass, rather than the genuine protections contemplated in the house bill, Congress will have sentenced as-yet unknown Americans to death and injury by failing to protect proven measures – reporting of government malfeasance and negligence – that gird our national security. The Coalition requested Chairman Hunter’s personal intervention to ensure that the protections offered under HR. 5112 are adopted in conference, not the weak and completely ineffective Senate provision, S. 494, during the final conference on the 2007 Defense Authorization Act. Signatories: Bergman, Bill, Financial Market Analyst, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Bigelow, Steve, Retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, Joint Chiefs of Staff, J-33 Bittler, Thomas, Training Coordinator, TSA-DHS Black, P. Jeffrey, Federal Air Marshal (FAMS), TSA/DHS Bonnette, James., Sr., District Adjudications Officer, Citizenship and Immigration Services-DHS Brown, James R., Former Operations Officer, Senior CI-HUMINT Investigator, Department of Army Carman, John, Former Senior Inspector, U.S. Customs Carpenter, Shawn, Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories Chudson, Jonathan, Former Special Agents, IG-Office, EPA Cleary, Kevin J., Senior Special Agent, U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security/ICE & U.S. Customs Service (O.I) Cole, John M., Former Veteran Intelligence Operations Specialist, FBI Conrad, David “Mark”, Retired Agent in Charge, Internal Affairs, U.S. Customs Connolly, Frank, Aviation Security Inspector, TSA Copley, James, Project Manager, DOE Cruse, Larry, Army Intelligence Analyst, DOD, Davidson, Kathaleen, Nuclear Security Training Coordinator, Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station Dzakovic, Bogdan, Former Red Team Leader, FAA Edmonds, Sibel, Former Language Specialist, FBI Ellsberg, Dan, Former Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense (ISA), DOD Elson, Steve, Veteran Agent, FAA Fei, Christopher, Former Mail Room Clerk Contractor, Army Corp of Engineers Forbes, David, Aviation, Logistics and Govt. Security Analysts Gonzalez, Sandalio, Retired Federal Agent, DEA Goodman, Melvin A., Former Senior Analyst/ Division Manager, CIA; Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy, Guagliardi, Ray, training coordinator, TSA-DHS Hirsch, Daniel M., Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State Hnatio, John, Former International Program Manager, DNN, NNSA & DOE Jenkins, Steve, Intelligence Analyst, NGIC, US Army Johnson, Larry, Deputy Director- Counterterrorism, Department of State; Analyst, CIA Kwiatkowski, Karen U., Lt. Col. USAF (ret.), Veteran Policy Analyst-DOD Lau, Lok, Former Special Agent, Counterintelligence, FBI Levine, Michael, Retired Supervisory Special Agent/Covert Operations Specialist, DEA Lipsky, John, Supervisory Special Agent, FBI MacLean, Robert, Federal Air Marshal Service, TSA-DHS Mansour, Joe, Occupational Safety Specialist, Federal Bureau of Prison MacMichael, David, Former Senior Estimates Officer, CIA Maschke, George W., Former Intelligence Officer, U.S. Army Reserve McCullers, Shawn B., Federal Air Marshal (FAMS), TSA/DHS McGovern, Raymond L., Former Analyst, CIA McInerney, Cullen, Supervisory Special Agent, Joint Terrorism Task Force, Federal Air Marshal Service, DHS Nowacki, Michael, Former Staff Sergeant, Military Intelligence, United States Army Nunn, Sandy, Former Special Agent, US Customs O’Neill, Michael J., Retired, USAF, Technical Sergeant, Command and Control Supervisor; former Screening (Operations) Manager, TSA-DHS Pahle, Theodore J., Senior Intelligence Officer (Ret), DIA Price, Paul, Language Analyst, NSA Puello, Franklin, Former Supervisor for Transportation Security Screeners, TSA-DHS Reinbold, Thomas G., retired Lt. Commander, Naval Security Group-Office of Naval Intelligence; Retired Senior Cryptologic Engineer, NSA Rempfer, Thomas L., Major (Current) Robinson, Dr. Lonnie, Agricultural Specialist, U.S. Customs Service, DHS Russell, William H., Computer Specialist, R & E Division, NSA Sarshar, Behrooz, Retired Language Specialist, FBI Savich, William, Special Agent, Bureau of Diplomatic Security, U.S. State Department Schott, Suzanne Grace, Former Screening Supervisor, TSA-DHS Springmann, Mike, Foreign Service Officer-5; Second Secretary & Vice Consul, Department of State Starns, Robert, Special Agent in Charge, Diplomatic Security Service, Department of State Stella V., Marie, Retired Lead Information System Security Officer, FAA, Stroup, Jay, Former Federal Security Director, TSA Sullivan, Brian, Special Agent, Risk Program Management Specialist, FAA Tice, Russ, Senior Intelligence Analyst & Action Officer, NSA Tortorich, Larry J., Retired Naval Officer, US Navy & Dept. of Homeland Security/TSA, Turner, Jane, Veteran Special Agent, FBI Vincent, John, Veteran Special Agent, Counterterrorism, FBI Walp, Glenn, PhD, Former Office Leader of the Office of Security Inquiries, Los Alamos National Lab, DOE Woo, Robert, Special Agent, Counterintelligence, FBI Wright, Robert, Veteran Special agent, Counterterrorism, FBI Sibel D. Edmonds Director-NSWBC E-mail- [email protected] Fax-(703) 519-0699 Stephen Kohn Chairperson-National Whistleblower Center www.whistleblowers.org Michael Ostrolenk Director-Liberty Coalition www.libertycoalition.net Sandalio Gonzalez National President-FHLEOA www.fhleoa.org Dr. Jeffrey Fudin President-VAWBC www.vawbc.com Daniel Hirsch Board Member-CFSO www.worldcrafters.com Matthew Fogg Executive Director-Congress against Racism & Corruption in Law Enforcement Dane Von Breichenruchardt- President US Bill of Rights Foundation National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, founded in August 2004, is an independent and nonpartisan alliance of whistleblowers who have come forward to address our nation’s security weaknesses; to inform authorities of security vulnerabilities in our intelligence agencies, at nuclear power plants and weapon facilities, in airports, and at our nation’s borders and ports; to uncover government waste, fraud, abuse, and in some cases criminal conduct. The NSWBC is dedicated to aiding national security whistleblowers through a variety of methods, including advocacy of governmental and legal reform, educating the public concerning whistleblowing activity, provision of comfort and fellowship to national security whistleblowers suffering retaliation and other harms, and working with other public interest organizations to affect goals defined in the NSWBC mission statement. For more on NSWBC visit www.nswbc.org # # # # |
