Dana Gold

This morning, I woke on the other side of the bed. The Dave side. For the first year after he died, I slept in a sliver of this king bed. I occupied just a body-sized slice, wedged between two pillows. I stayed on my slice. I didn’t even venture into…

As we approach the end of our reporting, Tessa revisits Gina Demas, the whistleblower, to see where the events of our story have left her, and to give her an update on our investigation. Will she get any vindication?

We all like to think that if we saw wrongdoing, we’d do the right thing - that when confronted with a problem that goes against our ethics or morals, we’d speak up or take action. But what if calling bullshit meant damaging or ending your career,…

We all like to think that if we saw wrongdoing, we’d do the right thing - that when confronted with a problem that goes against our ethics or morals, we’d speak up or take action. But what if calling bullshit meant damaging or ending your career,…

If we care about the information provided by whistleblowers, we need to care about the whistleblowers too. Last month, the bipartisan Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs…

By law, government whistleblowers are supposed to be protected against retaliation by their superiors. Unfortunately, that protection is more theoretical than it is reality. Recent history is littered with stories of retaliation against those…

The three former Facebook employees who accused the tech behemoth of knowingly sacrificing the well-being of teenage girls and dangerously spreading disinformation to fuel its exponential growth and profit are just the latest in a parade of…

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Despite unprecedented partisanship and politicization, voting for the 2020 presidential election proceeded with few reports of difficulty, a testament to the strength of our democratic institutions. However, instead of conceding the election, the…

The Trump and Nixon impeachment efforts mirror each other in substance and process. In both cases, we see gross abuse of power by the president—as well as aides and Cabinet members doing his bidding—to injure his political rivals. We see deliberate…

This week on CounterSpin: Who knows what will have happened by the time you hear this show, as Donald Trump seems to think nothing goes better after evidence that you tried to strongarm a country into digging up dirt on your opponents than evidence…

This month’s damning report from the agency’s own inspector general, which rebuked ICE’s detention practices, including placing immigrants in solitary confinement, is an accountability decoy. In fact, the report only scratches the surface of their…

Today’s post is written by Dana Gold, Director of Education, Government Accountability Project (GAP) Science professionals who refuse to stay silent in the face of direct evidence of abuses that betray the public trust—whistleblowers—are often the…

*This is part of ACSblog's Symposium on Whistleblowers. On March 28, 2018, FBI agent Terry Albury was charged under the Espionage Act with leaking classified FBI policy manuals to The Intercept that describe the FBI’s use of race and religion to…

Jurisprudence The efforts to chill government accountability reach across the executive branch. One might expect the Trump administration’s escalating chaos to prompt more federal employees to blow the whistle on illegality and abuses, rather than…

The 2017 State Farm Ethics lecture, presented by the College of Business, the College of Law, and the College of Journalism and Mass Communications.Features panelists Walt Tamosaitis, former deputy chief process engineer and research and technology…