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A government report is recommending that Congress pass legislation to better define editorial firewalls at the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees VOA. The Government Accountability Office, which audits U.S. government agencies for Congress, issued a 60-page report Wednesday examining the impact that legislation passed in recent years has had on USAGM's organizational structure…

US Government Media Whistleblowers Cleared of Wrongdoing Voice of America 09 Jul 2021, 09:35 GMT+10 A U.S. government watchdog has cleared six senior officials at the governments independent media agency of wrongdoing when they protested last year that the agencys chief, appointed by former President Donald Trump, was attempting to politicize news operations. The inspector general at the U.S. State Department recently concluded that Trump administration officials including Michael Pack had unla...

A government whistleblower who was the subject of an internal investigation launched by one of Donald Trump’s most controversial political appointees has been cleared of all wrongdoing, according to a Tuesday press release from the Government Accountability Project (GAP). The investigation was initiated by Michael Pack, who was appointed to lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM). Pack, a conservative filmmaker and ally of former White House chief strategist  Steve Bannon, was confir...

By Rebecca Beitsch - 04/20/21 03:30 PM EDT   Public interest groups determined to stay focused on the Trump administration say they have new openings for unearthing information now that the past government’s political appointees have departed. Various groups that flooded the government with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests say the departures have greased the wheels of various agencies’ public records shops.  Requests ranging from the pandemic response and the Jan. 6 atta...

Government Whistleblower Investigated and Fired by Trump Administration Has Been Cleared of Wrongdoing and Reinstated Jerry Lambe A government whistleblower who was the subject of an internal investigation launched by one of Donald Trump’s most controversial political appointees has been cleared of all wrongdoing, according to a Tuesday press release from the Government Accountability Project (GAP). The investigation was initiated by Michael Pack, who was appointed to lead t...

“Because of these vacancies, the MSPB is unable to issue decisions on petitions for review from federal employees who allege that their agencies have unlawfully acted against them. These vacancies have led to a backlog of more than 3,000 petitions from federal employees requesting review of their allegations,” they wrote. Roughly 60 administrative law judges have still been hearing cases from whistleblowers and others challenging dismissal from the federal government. But their decisions ca...

Whistleblowers say a Trump ally made a questionable hire days before resigning from DOJ CNN 3/11/2021 By Christina Carrega, CNN © Susan Walsh/Pool/AFP/Getty Images Jeff Clark, assistant attorney general for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, September 14, 2020. Two federal employees are calling for an investigation into the hiring of a senior Justice Department official who had been interviewed b...

Whistleblowers say Trump ally made questionable hire days before resigning from Justice Department Two federal employees are calling for an investigation into the hiring of a senior Justice Department official who had been interviewed by a manager who resigned shortly after — and just days before President Joe Biden‘s inauguration. The anonymous whistleblowers accuse Jeffrey Bossert Clark of conducting a bogus interview process for the assistant director of the Civil Division and appointing...

Two whistleblowers assert that a Justice Department official improperly injected politics into the hiring process during his waning days in the Trump administration, according to a new filing obtained by NPR.

Whistleblowers Allege Improper Hiring At Justice Department During Trumps Last Days Drew Angerer / Getty Images Two whistleblowers assert that a Justice Department official improperly injected politics into the hiring process during his waning days in the Trump administration, according to a new filing obtained by NPR. The whistleblowers accuse Jeffrey Bossert Clark of conducting a "sham" process and elevating a person who volunteered to defend a controversial Trump policy on abor...