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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1176750" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130726/01200123954/obama-promise-to-protect-whistleblowers-just-disappeared-changegov.shtml" target="_blank"><strong>Obama Promise To 'Protect Whistleblowers' Just Disappeared From Change.gov - Techdirt</strong></a></p><p></p><p>The folks from the Sunlight Foundation have noticed that the Change.gov website, which was set up by the Obama transition team after the election in 2008 has suddenly been scrubbed of all of its original content.</p><p></p><p>They were wondering why the administration would suddenly pull all that interesting archival information... and hit upon a clue. A little bit from the "<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130425082834/http://change.gov/agenda/ethics_agenda/" target="_blank">ethics agenda</a>":</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>Protect Whistleblowers:</strong> Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance. Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government. Obama will ensure that federal agencies expedite the process for reviewing whistleblower claims and whistleblowers have full access to courts and due process.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1176750, member: 1"] [URL="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130726/01200123954/obama-promise-to-protect-whistleblowers-just-disappeared-changegov.shtml"][B]Obama Promise To 'Protect Whistleblowers' Just Disappeared From Change.gov - Techdirt[/B][/URL] The folks from the Sunlight Foundation have noticed that the Change.gov website, which was set up by the Obama transition team after the election in 2008 has suddenly been scrubbed of all of its original content. They were wondering why the administration would suddenly pull all that interesting archival information... and hit upon a clue. A little bit from the "[URL="http://web.archive.org/web/20130425082834/http://change.gov/agenda/ethics_agenda/"]ethics agenda[/URL]": [INDENT][B]Protect Whistleblowers:[/B] Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance. Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government. Obama will ensure that federal agencies expedite the process for reviewing whistleblower claims and whistleblowers have full access to courts and due process. [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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