No whistleblower protections for feds in stimulus
February 11th, 2009 | Economic Stimulus | Posted by Elise Castelli
Congress stripped whistleblower protections for federal employees from the compromise stimulus bill today, according to the Project on Government Oversight.
“Accountability got mugged today when congressional leaders stripped federal whistleblower protections from their compromise ‘stimulus’ bill,†POGO said in a press release reacting to the bill today. “POGO will keep fighting to get federal whistleblowers the protections they need when they disclose the inevitable waste and fraud they will be witnessing.â€
Last month an amendment to the House version of the bill proposed to expand whistleblower protections to all federal employees, including those involved in national security.
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The Agitator » Blog Archive » Convenient, Isn’t It? Says:
February 12th, 2009 at 9:23 am[...] One item that was left out of the conference committee version of the stimulus bill: the Van Hollen-Platts amendment from the House bill. That amendment would have granted whistleblower protection to federal workers and contractors, including those who report fraud and waste in—you guessed it—how the government spends stimulus money. [...]