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New film looks at War on Whistleblowers
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Washington Post


Washington Post, April 23, 2013
Posted: April 30th, 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/ne...

The Obama administrations approach to federal whistleblowers has been likened to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Theres a schizophrenia within the administration, said Tom Devine, legal director of the nonprofit Government Accountability Project. Until recently, there was a virtual free-speech advocacy for whistleblower job rights thats unprecedented. At the same time, Devine added, [Obama] has willingly allowed the Justice Department to prosecute whistleblowers on tenuous grounds. That last point the Mr. Hyde side is the focus of the new film War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State. The stories about the governments aggressive moves against federal employees who worked to uphold the finest traditions of public service are chilling and deserve the notice and outrage the film hopes to generate. Franz Gayls is the first case presented. The Defense Department civilian employee was punished for his efforts to save the lives of U.S. troops at war. He was stripped of his security clearance, the lifeline for national security workers, and suspended. They were using all these personnel actions against me, he said. Im the substandard employee, bottom 3 percent, unreliable, untrustworthy, et cetera. After investigations and after all these personnel actions and reprisals, I was placed on administrative leave." The film makes you wonder how many more trampled, and largely unknown, federal whistleblowers like Gayl are out there.

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