Whistleblower Links and Resources
 |  America’s whistleblower courts were created to ensure federal employees
could fearlessly speak out about government abuse, corruption and
mismanagement. This CIR/Salon investigation reveals that the system set up to protect whistleblowers has instead been used to punish them. At whistleblower court, employees lose nearly 97 percent of the time. >> Read the report on Salon.com |
 |  When he was a young U.S. Senator, Richard Nixon stepped forward as one of the great champions of whistleblower rights. History would eventually catch up with him.  |
 |  The Whistleblower Protection Act was last strengthened by Congress in 1994. Since then, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit—currently the only appeals court that can hear government whistleblower cases—has almost
single-handedly redefined what a whistleblower is.  |
 | Stories of whistleblowers, many of whom are not protected by the current Whistleblower Protection Act. The whistleblower legislation circulating in the House and Senate aims to protect many of the whistleblowers exempted from current law. |