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More 'whistleblower' protections considered
in wake of Gunwalker scandal

(GunReports.com) -- Earlier this month, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) announced the introduction of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (H.R. 3289). The legislation will strengthen provisions of the Whistleblower Protection Act, originally enacted in 1989, for federal government employees who expose abuse, mismanagement, or criminal activity in federal agencies and programs.

Issa wants the enhancement to existing law specifically because of BATFE retaliation against agents involved in exposing the ongoing Gunwalking scandal.

"Whistleblowers play critical roles in exposing wrongdoing in government," said Issa."Federal employees who discover waste, abuse and mismanagement in their agency need to be able to alert agency leaders and Congress without fear of reprisal from supervisors, and within the confines of the law. This legislation establishes new protections for those who seek lawful ways to address abuse of taxpayer dollars."

When enacted, the legislation will:

• close judicially-created loopholes in existing whistleblower protection law;
• extend whistleblower protection rights to some 40,000 airport baggage screeners;
• increase avenues for intelligence community whistleblowers to safely and legally expose waste, fraud and abuse at intelligence agencies;
• create specific protection in the law for scientific freedom;
• ensure a permanent anti-gag statute to neutralize classifications like "classifiable," "sensitive but unclassified," "sensitive security information" and other poorly defined security labels;
• establish consistency with other remedial employment laws;
• strengthen the Office of Special Counsel's ability to seek disciplinary accountability against those who retaliate, and provides the OSC with authority to file friend of the court briefs in support of whistleblower rights cases appealed from the administrative level;
• create a pilot program to extend whistleblower protection to non-defense contractors.

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I was a whistle-blower. The company dragged the story out of me when I asked a few questions. I was told to do something which I thought wasn't quite right. The company dragged my boss in and gave him a royal chewing, told him they got the info from me and told him he broke the spirit of the law but not the letter of the law. They did nothing to him. Guess what happened at the next round of layoffs? Lost the best job I ever had. Whistle-blower protections don't work. Never Again.

Comment by: Mister E | November 17, 2011

Blowing a whistle from the 'inside' doesn't work and is a recipe for personal destruction. The company can always find ways to fire you later that can't legally be tied to your blowing the whistle. If the issue didn't go public, you can't even expect anything to change. Human Resources departments are NOT there to help you with work issues, no matter what they say - they are there to protect the company and get rid of difficult people as discreetly and effectively as possible.

If you want to blow the whistle on something and be protected, you absolutely have to go public with it. Otherwise, you're job termination starts ticking with the first word out of your mouth. You never know who is related to, friends with, or sleeping with, whom. You thinking out loud may make it to the CEO in 20 minutes. There are some companies where that would cause a truck to T-bone you on the way home. Leaking is a far more effective way to make things right, but you can never tell anyone at all, because all news travels.

Comment by: david b | November 18, 2011