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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (16679)	10/6/2007 6:16:28 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

OSI was quite open that they gave 100K to the GAP; Gvt. Accountability Project... Mission: The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is a 30-year-old nonprofit public interest group that promotes government and corporate accountability by advancing occupational free speech, defending whistleblowers, and empowering citizen activists. We pursue this mission through our Nuclear Safety, International Reform, Corporate Accountability, Food & Drug Safety, and Federal Employee/National Security programs. GAP is the nation's leading whistleblower protection organization. Where Your Money Goes Individual donors are a crucial component in GAP's fight for openness and accountability. Donations from individuals like you allow us to represent more whistleblowers and be more effective at exposing and correcting wrongdoings and threats to public welfare. GAP is committed to using your donation wisely. We are annually audited in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards by an independent certified public accountant. Our percentage of administrative and fundraising expenses was 14.2 percent in 2005 and 11.3 percent in 2004. But even though six out of seven dollars go directly to GAP's program work, at present we are only able to take five to ten percent of the cases that come to us. Your support would enable us to pursue more cases and to bring greater public attention to corruption, graft and fraud -- in big business and big government. Because of the power of information and the impact of employees exercising their conscience, our work has had an impact far beyond our modest budget. Thanks to donors like you, GAP has: Helped over 600 whistleblowers from the nuclear power industry and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 500 from the meat processing industry and the Department of Agriculture, 300 from the nuclear weapons industry, 200 from federal agencies overseeing environmental protection and natural resource preservation and 300 from government contractors and the government bodies they serve Drafted and promoted numerous whistleblower protection policies such as those included in the 2006 United Nations Anti-Retaliation policy, the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Energy Policy Act of 2005 Helped whistleblowers disclose information about many issues of public concern including the hazards of Vioxx and other drugs; the theft of millions of dollars worth of timber from national forests; the leaking of massive quantities of high-level radioactive waste from Hanford storage tanks and the movement of that waste towards the Columbia River; the unsanitary practices on inspection lines of meat and poultry plants that were leading to widespread food-poisoning among unsuspecting customers; and the censorship of climate change science by the White House. We hope that you will join us in our fight for truth! Government Accountability Project • www.whistleblower.org National Office 1612 K Street, NW Suite #1100 Washington, D.C. 20006 202.408.0034 West Coast Office 1511 Third Ave. Suite 321 Seattle, Washington 98101 206.292.2850 whistleblower.org