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By Gordon Schnell
There has been a great deal of activity this year in the wild world of whistleblowing -- some of it good; some of it bad; much of it still waiting to unfold. Here is our listing of 2013’s Top-10 whistleblower developments, many of which we surely will be wrestling with in 2014.
10. UK Whistleblowers. The United Kingdom seems to be moving in the direction of serious whistleblower...
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
The House last week approved section 1714 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which would revamp what many believe to be the weak and ineffective Military Whistleblower Protection Act of 1998 (“MWPA”). This amendment, if passed, would strengthen the protections afforded to those in the military who report sexual assault, fraud or other misconduct. It was...
By Gordon Schnell
It is the first ruling by a court on the constitutionality of the NSA’s bulk collection of phone data disclosed by Edward Snowden. Not one of those secret, slanted FISA courts created under the Foreign Service Intelligence Act. But the good old-fashioned kind of court subject to the regular rules of transparency and accountability that make our judicial system one of the best in the...