Read the following press release from the NSWBC in its entirety and if this cause grabs you, find
contact details of the relevent congressman, Tom Davis, at bottom.
September 20, 2005
Greetings,
Congressman Davis has scheduled the markup session for HR1317 for this coming Thursday, September 22.
He and his staff have continued to disregard our requests for a hearing to discuss serious loopholes in
HR1317 and badly needed provisions that would include and apply to whistleblowers from the intelligence
and law enforcement community. Considering the unprecedented number of national security whistleblower
cases that have surfaced in the past four years, it is appalling to see that the chairman of the House
Government Reform Committee, of all committees, continues to ignore national security whistleblowers,
and refuses to deal with well-known deficiencies of the Whistleblower Protection Act. Congress’ role
in overseeing the agencies involved in national security, and its responsibility to insure that reforms
needed to sustain and insure our nations’ security are implemented would be impossible without these
courageous UGGS insiders and experts – these national security whistleblowers. Then, why is it that the
Chairman of House Government Reform has yet to take a step towards protecting those who help make
oversight and reform possible? How does Chairman Davis define ‘Reform’ when it comes to the agencies
that are responsible for our nation’s security? Does Chairman Davis expect to receive a full picture
of performance, loopholes, and deficiencies through those whose sole purpose is to protect their career
and position? Has Chairman Davis even noticed the significance of very recent national security
whistleblowers such as Coleen Rowley, Robert Wright, Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer, Richard Clark,
Bogdan Dzakovic, and many others, in shedding light into severe problems, incompetence, and
deficiencies within our intelligence and law enforcement agencies?
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