http://www.nswbc.orgNational Security Whistleblowers CoalitionNational Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC), founded in August 2004, is an independent and nonpartisan alliance of whistleblowers who have come forward to address our nation’s security weaknesses; to inform authorities of security vulnerabilities in our intelligence agencies, at nuclear power plants and weapon facilities, in airports, and at our nation’s borders and ports; to uncover government waste, fraud, abuse, and in some cases criminal conduct.
The NSWBC is dedicated to aiding national security whistleblowers through a variety of methods, including advocacy of governmental and legal reform, educating the public concerning whistleblowing activity, provision of comfort and fellowship to national security whistleblowers suffering retaliation and other harms, and working with other public interest organizations to effect goals defined in the NSWBC mission statement.
The NSWBC membership is exclusively comprised of current or former federal employees or civilians working under contract to the United States who, to their detriment or personal risk, bring to light fraud, waste, and abuse in government operations and agencies when such improprieties compromise the national security of the United States.
Mission StatementNational security whistleblowers provide accountability for governmental action that is even more critical than that found in the non-national security case. When national security whistleblowers bring to public light unseemly or illegal governmental activity, they are exposing activity that not only affects the public coffers but the very lives and safety of United States citizens. For this reason, national security whistleblowers are indispensable in furthering governmental accountability and the public safety. The stakes involved in exposure of wrongdoing in the area of national security are so high that administrators implicated in the activities often respond harshly against the whistleblower or potential whistleblower in an effort to intimidate employees or to undermine the credibility of the whistleblower.
Presently, law, governmental policy, and mechanisms of administrative accountability are completely ineffective in protecting national security whistleblowers and encouraging national security employees to report wrongdoing. This, in itself, compromises the national security of the United States, since this lack of protection for whistleblowers creates a disincentive for employees to come forward to report malfeasance that puts the public at risk.
Given the injustice frequently visited on whistleblowers and the fact that retaliation against national security whistleblowers threatens the safety of all Americans, the NSWBC has the following goals:
* Reform of government practice, administrative procedure, and law to provide meaningful and reliable protection for national security whistleblowers.
* Implementation of measures to provide for substantial and pervasive accountability to prevent fraud, waste and abuse in governmental agencies tasked to insure national security.
* Creation of a reservoir of knowledge, contacts, and expertise on national security whistleblowing to provide information and resources to the public, elected officials, and federal administrators.
* Creation of a community of national security whistleblowers to provide guidance, advice, and comfort to whistleblowers suffering retaliation.
* Cooperation with other public interest organizations to promote policy changes in government consistent with securing the welfare of whistleblowers and protecting the national security.
NSWBC MembersBittler, Thomas, Training Coordinator, TSA-DHS
Carman, John, Former Senior Inspector, U.S. Customs
Chudson, Jonathan, Former Special Agents, IG-Office, EPA
Cole, John M., Former Veteran Intelligence Operations Specialist, FBI
Conrad, David “Mark”, Retired Agent in Charge, Internal Affairs, U.S. Customs
Connolly, Frank, Aviation Security Inspector, TSA
Copley, James, Project Manager, DOE
Costello, Edward J. Jr., Former Special Agent, Counterintelligence, FBI
Cruse, Larry, Army Intelligence Analyst, DOD,
Dzakovic, Bogdan, Former Red Team Leader, FAA
Edmonds, Sibel, Former Language Specialist, FBI
Ellsberg, Dan, Former Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense (ISA), DOD Elson, Steve, Veteran Agent, FAA
Forbes, David, Aviation, Logistics and Govt. Security Analysts
German, Mike, Former Special Agent, Counterterrorism, FBI
Goodman, Melvin A., Former Senior Analyst/ Division Manager, CIA; Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy,
Guagliardi, Ray, training coordinator, TSA-DHS
Jenkins, Steve, Intelligence Analyst, NGIC, US Army
Kwiatkowski, Karen U., Lt. Col. USAF (ret.), Veteran Policy Analyst-DOD Larkin, Lynne A., Former Operations Officer, CIA
Lau, Lok, Former Special Agent, Counterintelligence, FBI
Lipsky, John, Supervisory Special Agent, FBI,
Mansour, Joe, Occupational Safety Specialist, Federal Bureau of Prison
MacMichael, David, Former Senior Estimates Officer, CIA
McGovern, Raymond L., Former Analyst, CIA Nunn, Sandy, Former Special Agent, US Customs
Pahle, Theodore J., Senior Intelligence Officer (Ret), DIA
Price, Paul, Language Analyst, NSA
Sarshar, Behrooz, Retired Language Specialist, FBI
Sculimbrene, Dennis, Former Special Agent, FBI
Springmann, Mike, Foreign Service Officer-5; Second Secretary & Vice Consul, Department of State
Starns, Robert, Special Agent in Charge, Diplomatic Security Service, Department of State
Stroup, Jay, Former Federal Security Director, TSA
Sullivan, Brian, Special Agent, Risk Program Management Specialist, FAA
Tice, Russ, Senior Intelligence Analyst & Action Officer, NSA
Tortorich, Larry J., Retired Naval Officer, US Navy & Dept. of Homeland Security/TSA,
Turner, Jane, Veteran Special Agent, FBI
Vincent, John, Veteran Special Agent, Counterterrorism, FBI
Walp, Glenn, PhD, Former Office Leader of the Office of Security Inquiries, Los Alamos National Lab, DOE
Woo, Robert, Special Agent, Counterintelligence, FBI
Wright, Robert, Veteran Special agent, Counterterrorism, FBI
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