Thursday February 18, 2021 at 7:00 CST

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Hosted by Marti Oakley With guest Jacqueline Garrick

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TS Radio Network is brought to you in coordination with Marcel Reid and the Whistleblowers’s Summit, an annual event in Washington D.C.

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Jacqueline Garrick joins us this evening to discuss several issues affecting whistleblowers today. Jacqueline heads up Whistleblowers of America, a premier group that tracks not only legislation, but also the retaliation against whistleblowers who expose fraud, waste and abuse in federal agencies.

Whistleblowers of America 

WoA is a nonprofit organization assisting whistleblowers who have suffered retaliation after having identified harm to individuals or the public.

  1. Background – social worker, Pentagon – former DSPO Director who disclosed conflicts of interest, founder of Whistleblowers of America, won MSPB case.
  2. Article on the harm caused by whistleblower retaliation;.  How is a hostile work environment similar to combat trauma?
  3. Chris Kirkpatrick Act of 2017 and the letters WoA and Sean Kirkpatrick sent to Congress – what do we want to see done for Federal employees.
  4. How has Congressional appropriations been misspent or mismanaged? At VA  (Notice the copyright for Reingold on the website). The new VA effort: PREVENTS  and then this story ran about the VCL/MCL Report: Suicide hotline dropped 1.4 million calls from vets | Fox News Video
  5. What happened to the DoD funding for suicide prevention?  Look at page 138 of this report.  What happened to $20M? Since then DoD shows increases in its budget request:  But notice that regardless of what is says the DSPO mission is, the performance measures are all related to the VCL/MCL awareness, which is in the above item. So is this really the only best strategy to measure?

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