Chuck Grassley: “today is the day of the whistleblower. But every day should be the day of the whistleblower. I have asked every…”

“today is the day of the whistleblower. But every day should be the day of the whistleblower. I have asked every President since Ronald Reagan to hold a Rose Garden ceremony to honor whistleblowers. No President has done so. That is a shame because Presidents should view whistleblowers as making their job easier not more difficult. It is often the whistleblower who gives the unvarnished truth relating to government misconduct. And once that misconduct is known, it can be taken care of. When fraud and waste are exposed, the executive branch should bend over backwards to eliminate it. Instead, the executive branch often stupidly attacks the whistleblowers for courageously putting themselves out there. And for those in the FBI like Marcus Allen, retaliation is holding your security clearance hostage. Let me give some other recent examples. Department of Homeland Security whistleblowers alerted me of this administration's failure to implement the DNA Fingerprint Act. This failure allowed migrants with criminal histories to enter the United States unchecked, putting our communities at risk. The Department of Homeland Security has violated Federal law. The Office of Special Counsel substantiated the allegations and the retaliation against the whistleblowers for their disclosures. On July 23 this year, I held an oversight roundtable to highlight the whistleblower disclosures and the resulting retaliation they have suffered.…”