Anonymous ID: d2a0c1 April 15, 2021, 7:11 p.m. No.13436048   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6214 >>6304 >>6314

>>13435959

Here's a document I found on Cyber Ninjas. I will look into Marc Elias - the Clintons have too many fucking lawyer friends, don't they?

 

PUBLISHED: APRIL 9, 2021

RECORDS REQUEST TO SECURITY COMPANY CYBER NINJAS SEEKING DOCUMENTS RELEVANT TO MARICOPA COUNTY AUDIT

Public records request to cybersecurity company Cyber Ninjas seeking documents relevant to the Arizona State Senate’s planned audit of Maricopa County’s 2020 election results.

 

https://www.americanoversight.org/document/records-request-to-security-company-cyber-ninjas-seeking-documents-relevant-to-maricopa-county-audit

Anonymous ID: d2a0c1 April 15, 2021, 7:26 p.m. No.13436146   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6214 >>6304 >>6314

U.S. House Armed Services Committee

 

Strengthening Watchdogs and Whistleblower Protections

Military whistleblowers and sexual assault survivors deserve a system that will protect them from retaliation.

 

BY MANDY SMITHBERGER

FILED UNDER TESTIMONY

APRIL 15, 2021

 

Chairwoman Speier, Ranking Member Banks, and members of the subcommittee, thank you for inviting me to testify today. My name is Mandy Smithberger, and I’m the director of the Center for Defense Information at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO). POGO is a nonpartisan independent watchdog that investigates and exposes waste, corruption, abuse of power, and when the government fails to serve the public or silences those who report wrongdoing. We champion reforms to achieve a more effective, ethical, and accountable federal government that safeguards constitutional principles. Forty years ago, POGO was founded by Pentagon insiders who were concerned about the department’s procurement of ineffective and overpriced weapons. Throughout our history we have promoted wise spending and have sought improvements to better protect military, civilian, intelligence, and contractor whistleblowers.

 

I want to thank the subcommittee for taking the time to look at whether our inspector general system is serving the needs of Congress, the Department of Defense, service members, and the public. Our federal watchdogs perform an essential role in rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government. Their ability to perform this job effectively relies on insiders and whistleblowers who alert them to what is wrong. Inspectors general have a range of responsibilities that are important for improving the effectiveness of agency operations, but one of their most important responsibilities is their role investigating whistleblower and sexual assault complaints. However, POGO and government oversight entities have repeatedly raised concerns that the system for protecting military whistleblowers against retaliation is insufficient.1

 

The inspector general system for service members can seem unusually complex. The Department of Defense inspector general, service inspectors general, and component inspectors general perform complementary, but slightly different, roles in conducting oversight of the department and military services.

 

https://www.pogo.org/testimony/2021/04/testimony-on-strengthening-watchdogs-and-whistleblower-protections/

Anonymous ID: d2a0c1 April 15, 2021, 7:26 p.m. No.13436147   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6168 >>6219

U.S. House Armed Services Committee

 

Strengthening Watchdogs and Whistleblower Protections

Military whistleblowers and sexual assault survivors deserve a system that will protect them from retaliation.

 

BY MANDY SMITHBERGER

FILED UNDER TESTIMONY

APRIL 15, 2021

 

Chairwoman Speier, Ranking Member Banks, and members of the subcommittee, thank you for inviting me to testify today. My name is Mandy Smithberger, and I’m the director of the Center for Defense Information at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO). POGO is a nonpartisan independent watchdog that investigates and exposes waste, corruption, abuse of power, and when the government fails to serve the public or silences those who report wrongdoing. We champion reforms to achieve a more effective, ethical, and accountable federal government that safeguards constitutional principles. Forty years ago, POGO was founded by Pentagon insiders who were concerned about the department’s procurement of ineffective and overpriced weapons. Throughout our history we have promoted wise spending and have sought improvements to better protect military, civilian, intelligence, and contractor whistleblowers.

 

I want to thank the subcommittee for taking the time to look at whether our inspector general system is serving the needs of Congress, the Department of Defense, service members, and the public. Our federal watchdogs perform an essential role in rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government. Their ability to perform this job effectively relies on insiders and whistleblowers who alert them to what is wrong. Inspectors general have a range of responsibilities that are important for improving the effectiveness of agency operations, but one of their most important responsibilities is their role investigating whistleblower and sexual assault complaints. However, POGO and government oversight entities have repeatedly raised concerns that the system for protecting military whistleblowers against retaliation is insufficient.1

 

The inspector general system for service members can seem unusually complex. The Department of Defense inspector general, service inspectors general, and component inspectors general perform complementary, but slightly different, roles in conducting oversight of the department and military services.

 

https://www.pogo.org/testimony/2021/04/testimony-on-strengthening-watchdogs-and-whistleblower-protections/

Anonymous ID: d2a0c1 April 15, 2021, 7:36 p.m. No.13436219   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6251 >>6256 >>6304 >>6314

>>13436147

More whistleblower protections:

 

As Vaccine Rollout Continues, What Whistleblower Protections Exist in Big Pharma?

By Carolyn Wheeler and Benjamin Tugendstein of Katz, Marshall & Banks, LLP

April 14, 2021

The nationwide rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine has continued to gain momentum some five months after the shot first became available to limited populations. In all 50 states, everyone above the age of 16 is either already eligible to receive the shot, or will become eligible shortly. On April 3rd, more than 4 million people in the U.S. received a vaccine, the highest one-day number to date. And the country seems on track to hit President Biden’s new goal of 200 million shots in his first 100 days in office which is April 30.

 

Despite all of this good news, there have been setbacks – the most serious of which was reported in early April. The New York Times revealed that Emergent BioSolutions, a biotech firm with a 628 million dollar contract with the federal government to manufacture COVID-19 vaccines, had to destroy up to 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s Jenssen COVID-19 vaccine during the first week in April, after it was discovered the vaccine had been contaminated. That was not the first problem Emergent had with vaccine production. Between October 2020 and January 2021, the company also had to throw out between 10 and 15 million doses of the AstraZenaca vaccine because of contamination or suspected contamination. In November 2020, production of a batch of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was discarded because of worker error, and records indicate that workers frequently deviated from manufacturing standards. As of now, federal regulators have yet to clear the Emergent facility, and therefore not a single dose of the 150 million doses it has produced has been distributed for public use.

 

Audits performed by federal regulators have found serious fundamental issues at the Emergent vaccine manufacturing facility and outside experts say that such recurring issues imply deep quality control problems.

 

Due to the urgency of the vaccine rollout, whatever the underlying causes of the quality issues at Emergent, given the huge amounts of money being awarded in the form of government contracts, there is potential for fraud and abuse in the manufacture of vaccines. Workers at Emergent and other manufacturing sites are in the best position to identify such issues, and should feel free to report safety and financial improprieties without fear of reprisal. Such whistleblowers who report abuse have various legal protections.

 

Protections for Pharmaceutical Whistleblowers

While there is no federal legislation that provides blanket protection for whistleblowers in the pharmaceutical industry from retaliation, there is a patchwork of federal and state laws that may do so, depending on the facts of the matter.

 

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/vaccine-rollout-continues-what-whistleblower-protections-exist-big-pharma

Anonymous ID: d2a0c1 April 15, 2021, 7:40 p.m. No.13436256   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6288 >>6304 >>6314

>>13436219

Alphabet Shareholder Requests Stronger Whistleblower Protections for Google Employees

Geoff Schweller 1 day Ago

 

Google Whistleblower

The push for expanded whistleblower protections for Google employees continues to gain momentum. Trillium Asset Management, a major shareholder in Alphabet, Google’s parent company, recently filed a shareholder resolution outlining the importance of strong whistleblower protections. The resolution also requests that Alphabet’s Board of Directors oversee a third-party review of its current policies.

 

“Whistleblower protections are vital to a well-functioning company,” the resolution reads. “Reporting suggests that many Google employees who have resigned or been fired, including executives, publicly report retaliation after voicing human rights implications of company practices, including systemic workplace racism and sexism, and projects enabling censorship, surveillance, and war.”

 

Trillium is a $3.5 billion sustainable investment firm which owns 63,078 Alphabet shares — a stake currently worth roughly $140 million, according to The Verge.

 

Trillium’s request follows an open letter by Google employees demanding that state and national legislatures strengthen whistleblower protections for artificial intelligence (AI) researchers and other tech workers. The letter, published in March, states that “the existing legal infrastructure for whistleblowing at corporations developing technologies is wholly insufficient. Researchers and other tech workers need protections which allow them to call out harmful technology when they see it, and whistleblower protection can be a powerful tool for guarding against the worst abuses of the private entities which create these technologies.”

 

https://whistleblowersblog.org/2021/04/articles/corporate-whistleblowers/alphabet-shareholder-requests-stronger-whistleblower-protections-for-google-employees/

Anonymous ID: d2a0c1 April 15, 2021, 7:55 p.m. No.13436385   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6397

Old but relevant:

 

https://documented.wpengine.com/2021/01/republican-attorneys-general-dark-money-group-organized-protest-preceding-capitol-mob-attack/

 

Republican Attorneys General Dark Money Group Organized Protest Preceding Capitol Mob Attack

by JAMIE COREY JANUARY 7, 2021Updated JANUARY 11, 2021

 

This report has been updated on January 11, 2021 to include a new statement issued to reporters by RAGA and new information about RAGA appearing on MarchtoSaveAmerica.com.

 

The Rule of Law Defense Fund (RLDF), a 501(c)(4) arm of the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), helped organize the protest preceding the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol that took place on January 6, 2021.

 

As a 501(c)(4), RLDF is not required to reveal its donors. RLDF has received at least $175,000 from the Koch-backed Freedom Partners. Other RLDF donors include Judicial Crisis Network, the Rule of Law Project, and the Edison Electric Institute.

 

RAGA is a 527 political organization that helps elect Republican attorneys general and can accept unlimited contributions from wealthy individuals and corporations. As previously reported by Documented, RAGA received significant funding from numerous corporations in 2020, including Koch Industries ($375k), Comcast Corporation ($200k), Walmart ($140k), Home Depot ($125k), Amazon ($100k), TikTok ($75k), 1-800 Contacts ($51k), Chevron ($50k), The National Rifle Association ($50k), Monsanto ($50k), Facebook ($50k), Fox Corporation ($50k), Uber ($50k), Coca Cola ($50k), Exxon ($50k), and Google ($25k).