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“It is dangerous to be right when the government is
wrong.”
Voltaire
Resources
Organizations established
to monitor the workings of
the government and
government agencies
AllPolitics - WebWatch That's how this site
describes itself, and it is a pretty extensive
list
of links (like 70 political magazines and a host of
political watchdogs) ...
Center for Defense Information
The Center for
Defense Information (CDI) provides expert
analysis
on various components of U.S. national security,
international security and defense policy.
Center for Public Integrity The mission of the Center for
Public Integrity is to produce
original
investigative journalism about significant public
issues
to make institutional power more transparent
and accountable.
Citizens Against Govt.
Waste
(CAGW)
is a private, non-partisan, non-profit organization
representing more than one million members and
supporters nationwide. CAGW's mission is to
eliminate waste,
mismanagement, and inefficiency in
the federal government.
Citizens For Responsibility and Ethics
in Washington Citizens for
Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
uses
high-impact legal actions to target government
officials who
sacrifice the common good to special
interests
Common Cause Common Cause is a nonpartisan
nonprofit advocacy
organization founded in 1970 by
John Gardner as a vehicle for citizens to make their
voices heard in the political process and
to hold
their elected leaders accountable to the public
interest.
First Amendment Center ...the
First Amendment Center’s Web site, featuring
comprehensive research coverage of key First
Amendment
issues and topics, daily First Amendment
news, a unique First
Amendment Library and guest
analyses by respected legal specialists.
Judicial Watch Judicial Watch, Inc., a
conservative, non-partisan educational foundation,
promotes transparency, accountability and integrity
in government, politics and the law.
Important Sites Political Watchdogs:.
Center for Public Integrity - Great site to
see how
corrupt the Bush administration is, etc. Judicial
Watch
Media Research The mission of the Media
Research Center is to bring balance to
the news media.
Move0n.org In 1998, MoveOn PAC was
formed as a political action
committee
so that like-minded, concerned citizens could
influence the
outcome of congressional elections, and in turn,
the
balance of power in Washington, D.C.
News Media Watchdogs and Media
Blogs "The nation's leading
watchdog of manipulative political
rhetoric."
Altercation Web Log with daily musings on media,
politics and culture, written by Eric ...
Wikileaks Wikileaks is developing an
uncensorable system for untraceable mass document
leaking and public analysis.
Whistleblowers
A
whistleblower is an
employee,
former employee, or member of an organization,
especially a
business
or
government agency,
who reports misconduct to people or entities that
have the power and presumed willingness to take
corrective action. Generally the misconduct is a
violation of
law,
rule, regulation and/or a direct threat to
public interest,
such as
fraud,
health/safety violations, and
corruption.
Source:
Wikipedia
Government Accountability
Project Mission:
The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is a
30-year-old nonprofit public interest group that
promotes government and corporate accountability by
advancing occupational free speech, defending
whistleblowers, and empowering citizen activists.
Kill the messenger:
whistleblowers and cover-ups Sourcewatch
Whistleblowers are
usually ordinary people, often longstanding
employees and experts in their field, who take huge
professional and personal risks to blow ..
National Security
Whistleblowers File Format: PDF/Adobe
Acrobat -
View as HTML
available to national security whistleblowers.
First, an examination of the ... security
whistleblowers were excluded from the protections
provided in those ...
National Whistleblower
Center Since 1988, the
Center has used whistleblowers’ disclosures to
improve environmental protection, nuclear safety,
and government and corporate ...S
National Security
Whistleblowers Coalition National Security
Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC), founded in August
2004, is an independent and nonpartisan alliance of
whistleblowers who have come ...
Office of Research Integrity ORI Guidelines for
Institutions and Whistleblowers: Responding to
Possible ... ORI encourages whistleblowers to refer
institutions to these Guidelines when ...
OMB-Watch Whistleblowers speak out
to expose corporate and government corruption,
mismanagement, and wrongdoing.
State secrets privilege -
SourceWatch A nation’s state
secrets privilege–otherwise known as it’s security
of information (SOI) policy–is the authority by
which government officials withhold from ...
USDOJ - Office of the
Inspector General (OIG) The OIG conducts
independent investigations, audits, inspections, and
special reviews of United States Department of
Justice personnel and programs to .
The war on whistle-blowers Nov 1, 2007 ... US
officials have long retaliated against employees who
speak out, burying the dangers they expose. Now,
Congress wants to give ...
Whistleblower Disclosures Procedures for US
government employees to disclose wrongdoing through
special counsel office.
The Whistleblowers Protection
Office OSHA
Discusses protection from complaints
about safety and health hazards in the workplace and
the environment.
Resources
Whistleblowers