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New Guide Explains Military Whistleblower Rights and Protections
Government Accountability Project today released “Truth-Telling in the Military: A Guide to Whistleblowing for Service Members,” a comprehensive resource explaining how service members can lawfully report serious wrongdoing through protected channels.
Bipartisan, Veto-Proof Bill to Restore Funding to VOA Proceeding through Congress
Government Accountability Project applauds the bipartisan spending bill approved by lawmakers in Congress that would allocate $643 million for broadcasting from the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) and Voice of America (VOA). On January 14, by a veto-proof bipartisan majority of 341 to 79, the House approved.
EPA ASPECT Flyover Data Confirms Chemicals Found by Independent Tester After Smitty’s Supply Explosion
Today, Government Accountability Project released findings confirming that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) failed to properly operate its Airborne Spectral Photometric Environmental Collection Technology (ASPECT) airborne chemical-sensing aircraft during the August 22, 2025, explosion at the Smitty’s Supply Plant in Roseland, Louisiana.
Fox 8: Tangipahoa Parish President ‘concerned’ by new report on EPA air testing disclosure
Tangipahoa Parish President Robby Miller said he is concerned by a new report that alleges the EPA detected, but did not disclose, toxins in the air after the Smitty’s Supply explosion. The whistleblower group Government Accountability Project published the findings this week.
The Washington Post: Congress agrees to fund Voice of America, bucking Trump shutdown order
Lawmakers from both parties and houses of Congress have agreed to provide about $653 million to fund Voice of America’s parent agency, rejecting President Donald Trump’s demand to defund the international broadcaster and shut it down. A bipartisan spending bill released Sunday would allocate $643 million for broadcasting from the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees VOA, plus nearly $10 million for capital improvements.
Healthbeat: ByHeart baby formula outbreak prompts global safety study as U.S. struggles to find botulism source
An international food standards committee of the United Nations and World Health Organization has called for a scientific risk assessment of botulism spores in powdered infant formulas as a result of the U.S. outbreak linked to ByHeart products.
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Government Accountability Project
Statement of Retraction
Government Accountability Project and the co-authors Tom Devine, Samantha Feinstein and John Kolar (hereafter “the retractors”) of Chapter 15 of the book entitled, “The Routledge Handbook of Public Procurement Corruption,” published in April 2024, hereby retracts the “Case Study of Nurse Wooten” in its entirety and all of its content that may appear elsewhere in said publication or reviews and promotions thereof concerning Dr. Mahendra Amin. By this retraction, the retractors intend to fully and completely make the retractions he has demanded through his attorneys. After further review of all available press reports, information and judicial opinions, and upon his written demand, the retractors apologize to Dr. Mahendra Amin and state that they should not have relied upon and cannot now rely upon derogatory materials that the retractors cited, quoted or otherwise stated in the publications named in said written demand. The retractors retract without qualification all statements made by them that were critical of Dr. Mahendra Amin, including statements that he committed medical neglect, performed unnecessary gynecological procedures or mass hysterectomies on women detained at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility at Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia, and including any inferences that he was a “uterus collector”, as well as any and all other statements that impugned his professional conduct or character. The retractors will not promote or republish any such information on its website or in any of its printed materials and have removed therefrom the statements subject to the written retraction demand. The retractors will request that the publisher, Taylor & Francis, Inc., post unconditional retractions in all known written and electronically published material made or repeated by the retractors.
