Whistleblowing Experts Band Together To Combat Elite Corruption

Federalist–

A group of experienced Capitol Hill investigators and whistleblowing experts are banding together to fight government and corporate corruption with the creation of a new oversight organization dedicated to giving Americans a “check on unelected bureaucrats and corporate elites.”

“The main thing that we want to do is to become a resource for people who have inside information about waste, fraud, and abuse or corruption or mismanagement,” Empower Oversight founder and President Jason Foster told The Federalist.

Foster, one of the three former staffers from Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley’s office who are in leadership at Empower, has more than two decades of experience working with whistleblowers on Capitol Hill. Foster’s efforts to create the Senate’s bipartisan Whistleblower Protection Caucus and act on other oversight legislation along with the experience of former whistleblowers who advise the new organization, he says, will help future informants “navigate all the pitfalls that come with trying to report to the inspector general, going to Congress, dealing with the press.”

“This is stuff that all the folks on our team have done for years and years, and our whistleblowers have done it successfully and have survived,” Foster pointed out. “Either they have avoided being fired, or after they suffered the consequences of blowing the whistle, they’ve landed on their feet and they’ve survived and thrived. A lot of times people talk about whistleblowing is like the end of your career — and it’s certainly a risky thing to do — but one of the things I hope is that people will see the folks that are helping out with this organization and see that you can actually blow the whistle successfully and survive. And not just survive, but go on to bigger and better things.” more here