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"You do not
become a 'dissident'
just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career.
You are
thrown into it by a sense of
responsibility, combined with
a complex set of external
circumstances.
You are cast out of the existing hierarchical
structures and placed in a
position of conflict within them.
It begins as
an attempt to do your work well,
and ends with being
branded an enemy of society.
The dissident does not operate in
the realm of power.
The
dissident is not seeking power.
The
dissident has no desire for an
office of power.
The dissident does not
attempt to charm the
public.
The dissident
offers nothing and
promises nothing.
The dissident can offer only his or
her own skin - and the dissident
offers it solely because the dissident has no other way of
affirming the truth he or
she stands for.
The dissident's actions simply articulate his or
her dignity as
a citizen,
regardless of the cost." - Vaclav
Havel
2006 $33 million contract awarded to Moving Water
Industries Corporation.
Army Corps of Engineers officials in New
Orleans installed MWI's 34 pumps on three major drainage canals before the 2006
hurricane season despite a warning by Maria Garzino, the whistleblower, that
the pumps would fail if put to the test during a hurricane.
MWI is
owned by J. David Eller and his sons.
J. David Eller
was once a business partner of Jeb Bush in a venture called
Bush-El that marketed MWI pumps.
2008 "Army Corps
of Engineers officials did not violate any rules when they
allowed defective pumps to be installed
after Hurricane Katrina,
according to a report by the Defense Department's inspector general.
The report's findings will be reviewed by the United States Office of
Special Counsel, an independent federal agency that handles complaints by
whistleblowers including a corps engineer who warned in early 2006 that the
pumps would not work properly." - Cain Burdeau 6/13/2008
July 2008 Over 900 cases made by whistleblowers alleging that
government contractors
and drug makers have
defrauded taxpayers are
languishing in a backlog that has built up over the last decade because the
Justice Department has been ordered to ignore them.
Many cases involve
the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, rising healthcare payouts and privatization
of government functions - all offer
rich new opportunities to
swindle taxpayers.
deliberately premeditatedly tortured into psychic
disequilibrium
"My name is Fred Whitehurst and my life's work is
dangerously close to being destroyed.
I am a former FBI Supervisory
Special Agent who blew the whistle in 1993 on forensic fraud in the FBI crime
lab.
I was looking forward to seeing
President Obama and
Congress fulfill their promise to strengthen whistleblower rights.
I
was horrified to discover that the Senate whistleblower bill S. 372 repeals the
FBI whistleblower protections that
I sacrificed my career
for.
I am not only a whistleblower, I am also an attorney who
personally read the law and can tell you that S. 372 sets back whistleblower
rights 30 years." - Fred Whitehurst
2006 Los
Angeles prosecutor Richard Ceballos wrote a memo suggesting a Los Angeles
county sheriff's deputy had lied in a search warrant affidavit.
The US
Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled that Richard Ceballos' statements
about a potential lie in a search-warrant affidavit were "inherently a matter
of public concern" protected by the
Constitution.
The
Supreme Court decided that the 'memo was
inflammatory' and that a government employee while performing his official
duties may be fired or demoted for bringing to light misconduct or
corruption within the
employing public
institution.
"The 5-4 decision essentially says that government
employees can be fired or demoted if they
reveal information about
wrongdoing to their co-workers, to management or possibly to government
investigators.
This decision
sends a terrible message and could be deeply damaging to efforts to fight
fraud, abuse and corruption.
Almost half of all fraud, detection in
government agencies is estimated to come from tips, very often received through
whistleblowers.
My office, which is charged, among other things, with
rooting out fraud, and waste in the Los Angeles city government, routinely
receives credible whistleblower information from city employees.
In the
last five years we have conducted more than 100 audits and investigations, and
I can tell you that if we had not offered
protection and anonymity to
whistleblowers, the results would have been less than fruitful.
Let there be no doubt.
If
employees are no longer protected by the First Amendment when they speak out
then precious sources of information will wither away. " - Laura Chick, Los
Angeles city controller.
Laura Chick helped the United States attorney
to successfully prosecute the
public
relations giant Fleishman-Hillard, with the help of employees of the Los
Angeles Department of Water and Power, for fraudlent over billing for several
million dollars.
"The US Supreme Court
decision to deny whistleblower protection to public employees continues what
many of us already know.
As
the salaries of top
government bureaucrats rise faster than the price of
gasoline,
job protection and
career advancement become top priority.
Nonelected bureaucrats surround themselves with
"yes men" loyal only to the
boss, often at the expense of the very people their office is meant to
serve.
Intelligent
employees learn that submitting ideas,
comments or
criticisms up the
chain of command is
futile at best and career suicide at
worst.
The result? Government gets bigger, slower, less productive and
more costly.
The State Legislature should restore the whistleblower
protection that the Supreme Court took away by a 5-4 vote.
While
shooting the messenger may protect the bureaucrat, it does not protect the
public." - Daniel J. Schmidt |
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