Whistleblowing Panel Session
Tue, 9 Apr 2013 7:00 PM
7 p.m.
Room 1302, Health and Human Services Building
Features
whistleblowers Rick Piltz and Thomas Tamm with Louis Clark of the Government
Accountability Project serving as moderator.
Rick Piltz is a former senior
associate in the coordination office of the U.S. Climate Change Science
Program. In 2005, he blew the whistle on the White House's improper editing and
censorship of science program reports on global warming intended for the public
and Congress.
Thomas Tamm was a well-regarded Justice Department attorney in
the Capital Cases Unit who transferred to the Office of Intelligence Policy and
Review in the Justice Department in 2003. He became aware of a program that
bypassed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court in an arrangement where
only the Attorney General would sign certain wiretap requests, without review
by the 11-member court. As a result, The
New York Times ran an explosive Pulitzer Prize-winning cover story about
the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program in 2005. In 2009,
Tamm received the Ridenour Truth-Telling Award.
Sponsored by the Departments of
Integrated Science and Technology and Political Science and the School of
Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication; free.
