Today at 11 a.m., the case of GAP
client Robert MacLean will be heard before the Merit Systems Protection Board.
MacLean was fired for blowing the whistle on actions taken by the
Transportation Security Administration to cancel Air Marshal service on
cross-country flights during a ‘Code Red’ hijacker alert period. Years after
revealing this disclosure, which resulted in the canceling of the unsafe order,
MacLean was fired for his part in revealing “sensitive security information” –
a pseudo-classification level that was retroactively applied to the information
in MacLean’s disclosure.
Click here to read a letter from GAP to the Obama
administration detailing MacLean’s case
Currently, legislation that would
stop this atrocity from occurring in the future (Whistleblower Protection
Enhancement Act) has passed the House and is being debated in the Senate. Two
major issues the legislation addresses are the unjustified use of retaliatory
investigations against federal whistleblowers, and the retaliatory action of
stripping certain whistleblowers of the security clearances – effectively
ending their job duties, and requirements to fulfill obligations.
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