Dan Burton: “this is not an isolated case. We had four whistleblowers before my committee just recently, all of whom have either been…”

“this is not an isolated case. We had four whistleblowers before my committee just recently, all of whom have either been threatened or chastised for talking to Congress about problems that have occurred in their agencies. Ms. Shenwick's case is the latest in a series of those, and we want to be able to encourage people to tell where there is waste, fraud, and abuse in government. If whistleblowers are not protected, if they are not allowed to tell us if they know they are going to be threatened with their jobs, then they will not come forward. I would like to be able to assure anybody in this government who believes that there is wrongdoing occurring or waste in their department occurring, that they will be able to come to us, whether they are Democrat, Republican, or Independent, and know that they will not be impugned.”