The National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, or NSWBC for short, was founded in 2004 by former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds in partnership with more than 50 former and current US government officials from more than a dozen agencies. Basically, the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition is an alliance of whistleblowers who have come forward to address the weaknesses of American security agencies.
The National Security Whistleblowers Coalition works to uncover waste, fraud, abuse and, in some cases, criminal conduct within agencies charged with protecting our nation’s security.
NSWBC’s founder and current president is Sibel Edmonds. Sibel Edmonds worked as a language specialist for the FBI’s Washington local office. During her work with the office, she discovered and reported serious acts of security breaches, cover-ups, and intentional intelligence blocking that had national security implications. After revealing this information to the FBI, she was fired in March 2002.
The goal of the National Security Whistleblower Coalition is to assist national security whistleblowers through a variety of different methods, such as advocating for government and legal reforms, providing comfort and companionship to national security whistleblowers who experience retaliation, and other damages, educating the public on whistle-blowing. activity and work with other public interest organizations to achieve the goals defined in the NSWBC mission statement.
NSWBC membership is comprised exclusively of current or former federal or civilian employees working under contract with the United States and who, to their detriment or personal risk, expose fraud, waste and abuse in operations and government agencies when such irregularities compromise the national government. United States security.
The National Security Whistleblower Coalition requires whistleblower rights for intelligence agency employees and federal contractors, classified disclosures to Congress, security clearances, review of all circuits. Disclosures to Congress must clarify that classified information may be disclosed to a member of Congress or to staff of Congress as long as that person is authorized to receive such information. Security clearances means that the MSPB is authorized to review retaliatory cases when an employee’s security clearance is revoked and, if the MSPB finds retaliation, reinstate the security clearance. The Whole Circuit Review would allow the Federal Circuit or any other federal circuit court to hear whistleblower cases, ending the United States Court of Appeals for the exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal Circuit over whistleblower appeals.
Basically, the National Security Whistleblower Coalition is an independent, non-partisan alliance of whistleblowers who address US security weaknesses and report security vulnerabilities in our intelligence agencies, in power plants, to the respective authorities. nuclear and weapons facilities, at airports and at our nation’s borders and ports.
The Whistleblower Act defines the conditions under which a report can be made against a person or company suspected of fraud with government money. The Federal Whistleblower Statute is included in a wide range of laws that govern activities ranging from employee safety to environmental protection. The Code of Ethics and Conduct (“Code”) of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation (“the Foundation”) requires that all employees observe the highest standard of business and personal ethics in the performance of their duties and responsibilities.