“An IC employee or contractor may make a lawful disclosure through a variety of venues,” says a new fact sheet. Legally, the new protocols rely on a kind of triple bank shot of statutes and regulations beginning with the 1947 National Security Act through the 1979 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act through the Federal Acquisition Regulation and various whistleblower acts in the 1980s and 1990s, both within and outside the intelligence community. Charles McCullough III, for implementing “ground-breaking IC-wide policy that ensures security clearance decisions are protected from reprisal for intelligence community employees and contractors who make lawful disclosures." Meyer is expecting a bow wave of whistleblower retaliation cases (which can involve punishments ranging from demotion to pay cuts to required psychiatric evaluation) to come through his office directly or through a hotline in the coming months.Ī related July 2013 set of “external review procedures” for the community-a copy of which was declassified for this story-revolve around President Obama’s October 2012 Presidential Policy Directive-19, which added new protections for whistleblowers facing possible retaliation, the applicability of which is debated among whistleblower advocates.īut this spring’s directive by ODNI Director James Clapper is what is hailed by Meyer’s boss, Intelligence Community Inspector General I. It is developmental and helps all stakeholders understand that we have rules in effect,” he added. The key to the campaign of openness to whistleblowers, as distinct from criminal leakers and publicity seekers, Meyer stresses, is that it “must aid the agency mission. The new directive, he added, “shows firm support for the IC IG Whistleblowing program that actively promotes federal whistleblowing through lawful disclosures, which ultimately strengthens our nation’s security.” “A robust outreach and training program to further educate IC personnel on whistleblower protections” is the way it’s described by Dan Meyer, now in his tenth month as executive director for intelligence community whistleblowing and source protection.įrom his Reston, Va., office at the Intelligence Community’s Office of the Inspector General, Meyer told Government Executive that a communitywide policy directive, ICD-120, signed in March by the director of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) “is an affirmative statement that you have to blow the whistle” upon encountering wrongdoing, noting that in the past it was seen as an option. But confusion over whether the government’s protections for whistleblowers even apply to an intelligence contractor have helped prod leaders of the 16 intelligence agencies and their inspectors general to launch an awareness effort. Not that many officials grant hero status to the onetime National Security Agency contractor charged with espionage and now marooned in Russia. He has white trim on his uniform instead of pink.Among the many continuing shockwaves from last spring’s domestic surveillance disclosures by Edward Snowden is a concerted effort within the intelligence community to recast whistleblowing.He reflexively gave the Nazi salute, but, realizing his error, smiled and quickly gave him the American salute instead. Donning Oddball's leather jacket, he said goodbye to Kelly. He sold his Tiger and his jacket to Oddball. He complied and later (a little awkwardly) joined his new American allies in celebrating. They worked out a deal whereby he'd use the Tiger's gun to blow open the bank, and he and his crew would get an equal share. When the tank commander refused, they tried a different tactic - Kelly asked him if he even knew what was inside the bank, and, when he didn't, Oddball told him. Initially, Big Joe tried to tell him to leave, because of the impending arrival of General Colt's army. Kelly, Big Joe and Oddball approached the tank, and the commander emerged. Attempting to figure out what to do, Crapgame suggested to Kelly and Big Joe to make a deal with the German commander. When the Americans who were after the gold attacked, the commander ducked down inside his tank and pursued them.Įventually, the Tiger tank returned to the bank following the destruction of the other two tanks, where it remained, threateningly firing off rounds in all directions. He is first seen talking to a hauptsturmführer about the dire fuel situation. He was a blonde, dour-looking man with a scarred face. The German Tank Commander was an obersharführer serving in the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler Panzer division who was one of three Tiger tank commanders assigned to guard the bank in Clairmont which held several thousand gold bars. This bank isn't to fall into the hands of the American Army."