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Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Washington Post
Posted: September 24th, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/forme...
John N. Tye wants to make it easier to expose government wrongdoing without getting fired or breaking the law. Tye, a former State Department whistleblower, and lawyer Mark S. Zaid have formed Whistleblower Aid, a nonprofit law office to help would-be tipsters in government and the military navigate the bureaucratic and legal morass involved in reporting governmental misdeeds. Whistleblowing can be a challenge for people who have taken an oath of office to support and defend the Constitution ... Tye said in a telephone interview. Then you get into government and you see something wrong, he said. Youve sworn to stop it, but there arent a lot of tools at your disposal, especially if its your supervisor whos breaking the law. People are scared. Theyre worried about their jobs. If it involves classified information, they can be criminally prosecuted. Tyes interest in whistleblowing came from a stint as section chief for Internet freedom in the State Departments Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. He came forward as a whistleblower to publicize the governments electronic surveillance practices. He wrote about it in 2014 in a Washington Post opinion piece that he submitted to the State Department for approval. His quest to air his concerns cost him $13,000 in legal fees. If a whistleblower comes to Whistleblower Aid with classified information, he or she will be steered to investigators with security clearances and the power to do something about it.
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