By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The FBI has a habit of punishing its own whistleblowers.
That may change soon under the proposed FBI Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, the Washington Post reports.
“Whistleblowers play a critical role in keeping our government efficient and honest, yet they also risk retaliation from their employers, sometimes being demoted, reassigned, or fired as a result of their actions,” says a report issued in support of the FBI Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act.
The legislation would strengthen protections for whistleblowers who expose fraud, waste and abuse.
It also would allow employees to report abuses to their own supervisors.
“This has left protections for FBI whistleblowers inferior to those of other Executive Branch employees …” the report said. “Unlike all other Executive Branch employees, including employees in the intelligence community. … FBI employees enjoy no legal protection for making reports of wrongdoing to supervisors or others in their chain of command.”
