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This website’s Home page includes 47 named whistleblower scientists, doctors, engineers, lawyers, accountants, auditors, and other disciplines, within 27 departments, bureaus, and agencies, who were unconstitutionally retaliated against for rightfully questioning the single cancer that destroyed the American people’s democracy. That is, the deregulation, privatizing, and outsourcing of our Forefather’s inherent civil servant duties to contractors, the antithesis of the way our Forefather’s democracy was consitutionally required to operate. This is also the root cause for a debt total that spiked by $36+ trillion, from a 1978/772 billion low to its curren $36.7 trillion total in just 47 years (1978 – 2025), and still no end in sight. The need for major government reform becomes increasingly clear every day that President Donald Trump and the 119th Congress mislabels the government’s problem as an efficiency (civil sevant) problem when the real problem is both parties’ blatant corruption. Replacing both parties’ political hearsay with this cold-hard fact is key to exposing the need for the American people’s demands for major government reform to: (1) restore the American people’s faith in their goverment, and (2) expose all levels of waste on a real time basis, and not a $36+ trillion debt spike after the fact.

The major challenge, however, is not just in identifying the major reforms that are needed to fix the American people’s broken and no longer sustainable U.S. government but in exposing another cancer that still infects our 99%’s U.S. government. America’s richest 1%’s politicians, their corporations, and their media moguls control all levels of misinformation within both the government and the media, not unlike Putin’s Russian dictator and his oligarchs, but now under both parties’ richest 1%’s pretense of the 99%’s democracy. The only difference is that Putin’s Russian dictator united Russians behind his lies whereas America’s richest 1%’s politicians did something even more nefarious and undemocratic. They divided their citizens to bicker among themselves to distract them from the obvious need for major government reform. In 1996, both parties created their 2 politically-controlled liberal and conservative medias when the debt had spike from that 1978/$772 billion low to its 1996/$5.2 trillon debt (corruption) total. Later, those 2 opposing liberal and conservative and liberal media’s political anyalysts were also MIA, when they failed to report 2 historic levels of dissent that included 100+ whistleblowers in 2005, and a later event involving a whistleblower Petition to Congress that recorded Congress’ failure to enforce its own whistleblower protection laws.

The sole intent of this website is to record the truth, focus on how our Forefather’s democracy was legally and constitutionally required to operate, what went wrong, and what we (the 99%) can do to create a better and stronger democracy. This website’s Home and Financial & Economic Collapse pages begin this effort by including both parties’ gross misrepresentations of the truth along with the supportable facts to record what did happen. Based upon this information, this website’s Government Reform page includes 23 citizen-based government reforms (CBGRs) that are offered as a starting point to begin the necessary public dialogue to undo what both parties have already illegally and unconstitutionally done. Absent a constitutionally required apolitical and technically qualified civil servant executive branch, those 47 named whistleblowers are an invaluable resource to assist the 119h Congress to refocus its efforts, not on efficiency but ending both parties’ corruption problem. Below is that information to begin the long and delicate task ahead of changing a contractor-based government back to civil servant-based, and to responsibly cut a minimum of 25% in waste from today’s $6.75 trillion federal budget totals. 

Our Forefather’s democracy is rooted in Congress’ 1883 Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act / U.S. Civil Service Commission (USCSC), and that protected the American people’s democracy from all levels of corporate abuse for the first 189 years (1789 – 1978) of the U.S. government’s operation, at a paltry 1978/$772 billion debt total. Congress’ 1883 Pendleton Civil Service Reform and USCSC included the following 2 checks and balances: (1) Congress’ 1883 Pendleton Civil Service Reform legally required an apolitical, technically qualified civil servant executive branch, that was unbeholden to any President. In reality, the executive branches’ 2.4 million civil servant bureaucracy (excluding the FBI, CIA, NSA) was legally protected while its 1.3 million military personnel also had no such protections. (2) our Forefather’s USCSC was intentionally outside of the President’s control (not under the executive branch) for the sole purpose of protecting civil servants from being fired for political reasons. So, after Ernie Fitzgerald, an Air Force civil servant whistleblower, exposed President Richard Nixon’s $2.3 billion Lockheed C-5A transport plane cost overrun, he was fired. But then, Mr. Fitzgerald appealed his case to the USCSC and won that case only because the USCSC was not under the executive branch, and President Nixon’s control to fire him. President Nixon’s 1974 political demise, however, occurred later as a result of Daniel Ellsberg’s Pentagon Papers, and the Watergate break-in.

In other words, neither party had a credible legal excuse for allowing Congress’ 1978 Civil Service Reform Act’s (CSRA). It’s passage was solely political and to permanently eliminate any future (Fitzgerald & Ellsberg) whistleblower problems. This is also why, after President Richard Nixon’s humiliating 1974 resignation, both parties circulated rumors about our Forefather’s supposedly lazy and inept civil servants, and solely to justify Congress’ passage of its unnecessary 1978 CSRA. The accuracy of this statement is validated in a Princeton assistant political science Professor’s (David E. Lewis) book, The Politics of Presidential Appointments, where he mislabeled our Forefather’s civil servants as underworked, overpaid, and unresponsive. Both parties then used Congress’ 1978 CSRA to divide the USCSC’s duties between the 4 below executive branch offices (now under the President’s control), each of which was legally required to protect whistleblowers. But then, starting in 1978, 24 Congresses (95-119), 8 Presidents (Reagan – Trump), and a complicit U.S. Supreme Court Justices, through their inactions and inactions, jointly destroyed all whistleblower protections, and all levels of dissent by using Congress’ 1978 CSRA to: 

  • (A) increase each President’s levels of loyal political appointees from 1 level to 4 (or more) levels, that included the President’s 1 level of their hand-picked political appointees (1883 Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act),
    • plus 3 (or more) levels by: (1) changing a prior apolitical government service (GS-15) management position to political, and adding 2 (or more) levels of loyal political appointees: (2) Senior Executive Service (SES) and (3) Schedule C political appointees, and that were carried over from 1 President to the next.

By eliminating all levels of dissent, politicizing, and dumbing down the executive branches’ infrastructures, both parties now rubber stamped the procurement of valueless and harmful corporate goods and services that now ripped-off the American people in 2 ways, by: (1) paying their politicians to deregulate (destroy) the 1883 Pendelton Civil Service & USCSC rules and regulations, and (2) then suffering the adverse effects of destroying those rules and regulations in the following ways, and with their own wasted $36+ trillion tax dollars: 

The below 3 sections provide more detailed information to better understand how, after 47 years of 24 Congress’ (95-119) and 8 President’s lawless actions, the U.S. government now lacks all checks and balances, and requires Congress’ 3rd civil service to possibly still prevent its not-too-distant financial, economic, and moral collapse: 

  • (I) How 3 Government Branches Got Politicized and Must Now Be Restructured 
  • (II) How 47 whistleblowers exposed 8 President’s and 24 Congress’ lawless Acts
  • (III) How State Governors Used Congress’ 1978 CSRA To Destroy State Democracies

(I) How 3 Government Branches Got Politicized and Must Now Be Restructured  
Over the last 47 years, both parties’ politicized all 3 branches of the U.S. government, as recorded in the below items (1 -8). Item 9 records how both parties’ richest 1% created America’s capitalist version of a state-controlled media where they covered-up both those politicians and their richest 1%’s media moguls lawless acts, like Jeff Bezos, Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News and Wall Street Journal, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk. Below is a summary of why all 3 branches of the U.S. government no longer serve the best interests of the American people, and must be restructured:

  • Legislative Branch – (1) The last 24 (95 – 119) Congresses destroyed the American people’s democracy, and (2) their lobbyists played key roles in this 47-year-old undemocratic travesty by writing lawless and meaningless laws, solely to enrich the richest 1%, and the hell with America’s 99%.
    • A few of Congress’ now meaningless laws no longer support both parties’ claims of a democracy, or its sustainabilty, per Section II below.  
  • Executive Branch – A no longer democratic executive branch consists of the following groups that implement Congress’ lawless and meaningless laws: (3) the last 8 Presidents and Vice Presidents, (4) their 4 (or more) levels of political appointees (thugs/enforcers), (5) both parties’ contractors who still sell valueless and harmful corporate goods and services to the U.S. government, (6) Wall Street’s corporate executives who worked as political appointees for those Presidents by destroying 18,000 SEC cases against themselves and their Wall Street friends. This federal scam also includes President Barack Obama who was elected to end this Wall Street cancer with his open, transparent, accountable government promise, and the $10 trillion dollar debt total he inherited. Instead, President Barack Obama ignored that promise, continued that illicit and lucrative Wall Street liaison, as did his successors (Trump, Biden, and Trump) to instead add another $26+ trillion in debt, to their 47 year/$36+ trillion debt spike (plunder total), (7) 2.4 million civilian and 1.3 million military personnel who are now beholden to America’s 8th President (Donald Trump) who still demands their blind loyalty, per Congress’ new dictatorial law, and still under the richest 1%’s pretense of the 99%’s democracy. 
  • Judicial Branch – (8) A U.S. Supreme Court that was MIA: (a) when it allowed Congress’ 1978 CSRA and the deregulation, privatizing, and outsourcing of all inherent duties to contractors, (b) when it gave immunity to President Donald Trump and all Presidents, while in office, and with no regard for how those Presidents had made a mockery of the law and the Constitution starting in 1978, (c) with its Citizens United decision that placed corporate interests above those of the American people (d) allowed George W. Bush to violate the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (Establishment Clause) when he supposedly found God. (e) allowed George W. Bush to cover-up his national security blunders, or (f) when the U.S. Supreme Court’s Justices adopted a code of ethics, when they have no ethics. 
    • (9) America’s capitalist version of a state-controlled media is not unlike Putin’s Russian dictatorship. The only difference is that Putin unites Russians behind his lies and murders all dissenters whereas America’s richest 1%’s media moguls use their liberal and conservative political analysts to divide the American people, and to distract them from demanding Congress’ obvious need for its 3rd major civil service reform. 

(II) How 47 whistleblowers exposed 8 President’s and 24 Congress’ lawless Acts​
Democracies are only as good as the information their politicians provide to their citizens. For the first 189-years (1789 – 1978) of the American people’s U.S. government’s operation, our Forefather’s 1883 Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act and its U.S. Civil Service Commission (USCSC) allowed each President 1 level of loyal political appointees, 1 civil service reform whistleblower protection law, that both parties (then) respected. The end result was a technically qualified government service (GS) civil servant executive branch to ensure accurate information for each President, a paltry $772 billion debt total in 1978, but that still hid unknown levels of political and corporate waste with that President’s 1 level of loyal political appointees. 

Then, over the last 47 years, the last 8 Presidents (Reagan – Trump) used Congress’ 1978 Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) to rescind its prior 1883 Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act & USCSC, and that had once qualified the U.S. government as a democracy. The accuracy of this statement is recorded in both parties’ blatant abuses of the law and U.S. Constitution, including but a few of Congress’ growing list of its below lawless and meaningless laws, still under the richest 1%’s pretense of the 99%’s democracy:

  • 1791 1st Amendment’s Establishment Clause – create harmony among believers and non-believers, a constitutionally required separation between church and state to maintain civility between its citizens, but then ignored by the U.S. Supreme Court after President George W. Bush supposedly found God to now divide the American people, illegally and unconstitutionally.
  • 1863 False Claims Act (Lincoln Law) – allowed honest politicians, like President Abraham Lincoln, to work with their honest civil servant managers to prosecute crooked contractors for selling deficient corporate goods and services to the U.S. government. But today, both parties’ crooked politicians, contractors, lobbyists, and Wall Street corporate executives are in bed with each other. The accuracy of this statement continues with President Donald Trump’s and the 119th Congress’ gutting of the 99%’s Social Security and Medicare benefits to continue enriching the already richest 1%, and with no concern to adding another $3.8 trillion in debt to an already existing $36+ trillion debt total.
  • 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act – legally requires accurate corporate financial statements, but then prevented per an also 2012 Forbes magazine article, “Is the SEC’s Ponzi Crusade Enabling Companies To Cook The Books, Enron-Style?” that describes how the SEC disbanded its own accounting-fraud task force because both parties had been dumbing down the U.S. government’s fiscal sector since 1990, including that of the SEC.

  • Bill of Rights – the 1st 10 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution included the most basic precepts of America’s democracy, at least for the first 189 years of the U.S. government’s operation, and then gutted over the last 47 years to disqualify the current U.S. government as a democracy.  

There is no better documentation that supports the need for Congress’ required 3rd civil service reform than to make public the 47 named below whistleblower short stories that record how the last 8 Presidents politicized 27 departments, bureaus, and agencies. Also, please note that the below numbered 27 items are divided into 3 sections: (A) Financial & Economic Sector, (B) National Security Sector, and (C) Other Sectors. Also, to highlight those 8 President’s blatant abuses of the U.S. government’s secrecy policies, those items are colored red. and identified as the Espionage Act (EA), State Secret Privilege (SSP), and Confidential Business Information (CBI) policies: 

(A) Financial & Economic Sector

(1 thru 3)/CBI Central Agencies [Treasury, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and Government Accountability Office (GAO)] – Our Forefather’s Central Agencies supposed constitutional intent was to use all 3 federal offices to manage (not mismanage) the U.S. government, according to an accountant whistleblower (Larry Fisher), and whose information against the U.S. government was declared secret/confidential business information in 2010, still never to see the light of day. His allegations are that both parties’ politicians used the Central Agencies to mismanage the U.S. government by preventing the money (audit) trails to continue hiding how each President spends each federal budget, also confirmed in GAO’s own March 2021 testimony. The following additional documents record both parties’ lawless acts within the fiscal sector, as follows: President Bill Clinton, President Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, and 3 Comptroller Generals (Bowsher, Walker, Dodaro).

​​(4) Department of Defense (DOD) – 2 DOD civil servant whistleblowers (Jim Minnery / Franklin Spinney) ​could not track $2.3 trillion in missing transactions and 25 percent of each DOD budget, also why they were reassigned to hide that waste.​

(5) Securities & Commission (SEC) – A Forbes article “Is the SEC’s Ponzi Crusade Enabling Companies To Cook The Books, Enron-Style?” describes the replacement of college degreed SEC accountants & auditors with non-accountant civil servants and how they created a still-hidden 2025 Eron-style corporate credibility financial statement crisis due to the SEC’s elimination of its once technically qualified accounting-fraud task force.

(B) National Security Sector

(6) Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – highlights how our politicians, political appointees, and corporations deceived the American people by using the DHS to stoke the American people’s fears over immigrants, national security, while enriching Home Depot and other corporations to purchase their valueless and unnecessary corporate goods and services. 

(7) Army/EA – Chelsea (Bradley) Manning was convicted of violating the Espionage Act after leaking hundreds of thousands of documents to Wikileaks for rightfully exposing the truth regarding the Army’s atrocities.

(8) National Security Agency’s (NSA)/EA –  NSA’s Thomas Drake, Kirk Wiebe, Bill Binney rightfully questioned the U.S government’s privatizing and outsourcing policies (scams) when their in-house tested $3 million Thin Thread terrorist-tracking software package was replaced with an untested $1.3 billion Trailblazer software package, later scrapped. Tom Drake was the only one charged with violating the Espionage Act.

(9) NSA’s Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) contractor (EA/CBI) – Edward Snowden was also charged with violating the Espionage Act for rightfully revealing his privacy rights concerns for the American people. An accountant whistleblower also exposed how both EPA’s managers and its BAH contractor were covering-up their inability to ensure the accuracy of EPA’s OMB Circular A-123 reviews. 

(10) Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) – John Kiriakou’s (former CIA officer) rightfully exposed the CIA’s waterboarding abuses that then cost him over 2 years in prison for revealing the U.S. government’s treachery and its illegal and inhumane treatment of its prisoners.

  • ​​A retired CIA officer, 71 year old Ray McGovern, was arrested for standing, back turned to (then) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as she gave a 2011 speech on the right to dissent. President Barack Obama prevented 74 year old Ray McGovern from attending a 2014 David Petraeus event to again prevent any level of dissent. 

​​​(11) Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI)/SSP – politicians hid their failures to prevent 9/11 in addition to more failures to protect child sex crime victims, per FBI’s whistleblowers Coleen Rowley and Jane Turner.

(C) Other Sectors 

(12/15) Below is a summary of how Congress’ 1978 CSRA divided the U.S. Civil Service Commission’s duties between the 4 below federal entities, on the pretense of protecting whistleblowers, but then illegally and unconstitutionally politicized (destroyed) all 4 offices in the following ways to eliminate all future protections for whistleblowers:

  • (12) Office of Personnel Management (OPM) – 4 of OPM’s electrical engineer, accountant, auditor, and information technology (IT) professional position standards were secretly and illegally undermined when the minimum technical college degree was eliminated in the early 1990’s.
    • There is no way of knowing how many other OPM position standards have been undermined since then, in this and other ways.
  • (13) Office of Special Counsel (OSC) – either trashed or ignored the whistleblower cases that were presented to the OSC and that were supposed to protect all whistleblowers.
  • (14) Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) – Congress defunded its own MSPB, and to no longer protect whistleblowers as legally required.
  • (15) Federal Labor Relations Board (FLRB) – Created to protect federal unions (and all civil servants) then undermined by President Ronald Reagan by firing striking air traffic controllers, and that still occurs under the current President, Joe Biden.

(16) Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) – EPA’s microbiologist (David Lewis) recorded how both parties had prevented its scientists, and 12 other EPA civil servants from performing EPA’s other legally required duties, per those 13 civil servant whistleblowers. Those weakened 1990 EPA infrastructures are now the root cause of both parties’ self-inflicted, ever-worsening climate change disasters, and that will only with Congress’ required 3rd civil service reform. 

​(17) Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) – records Joe Rannazzisi’s efforts to expose an Opioid crisis  to protect the American people, the fallout that followed including Purdue Pharma’s later loss of 400,000 lives for failing to listen to Mr. Rannazzisi. Racial injustice concerns were also covered-up within the DEA, per Chief Deputy Matthew Fogg (Retired). 

(18) Department of Justice – a former DOJ attorney, Jesselyn Radack, blew the whistle on the fed’s misconduct concerning the American Taliban case, John Walker Lindh, during the George W. Bush administration. Later, her evidence was destroyed and withheld from Court, forced out of her job, and placed under criminal investigation. 

(19) Veterans Administration’s (VA) – secretly treated veterans as guinea pigs, all the while pretending to care for America’s veterans.

​​(20) Department of Energy (DOE) – where DOE also secretly politicized and dumbed down its  college degreed electrical engineer position standards to turn those once inherent civil servant duties to corporations, per a former DOE electrical engineer.  ​

(21) National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) – President Ronald Reagan misappropriated the American people’s tax dollars money by deceiving them into thinking that Challenger was being used for a peaceful and exploratory mission when it was used for military purposes, per an NASA whistleblower, Richard C. Cook, in his book “Challenger Revealed.”

(22) Federal Drug Administration’s (FDA) – FDA’s political appointee managers undermined the FDA’s infrastructures to release unsafe drugs and medical devices to the public, per FDA’s whistleblowers, 9 scientists and Dr. David Graham.

(23) National Institute of Environmental Health Science’s (NIEHS) – NIEHS’s political appointee managers harassed and retaliated against an NIEHS whistleblower (Dr. James Huff) for publicly voicing his concerns about the chemical industry.

(24) National Institute of Health’s (NIH) – NIH’s political appointee managers retaliated against NIH’s Dr. Edward McSweegan and fired Dr. Jonathan Fishbein for trying to protect the American people’s health and well-being,

(25) Health and Human Service’s (HHS) – HHS’s political appointee managers established bogus (faith-based) safety net programs that had nothing to do with protecting disadvantaged people but to instead enrich both parties’ politicians, per an HHS whistleblower (Evy Brown).

(26) Department of Education’s (DOE)– DOE’s failed Common Core testing regimens highlight the need to get both politicians and their political appointee managers out of the business of mismanaging teachers (and all civil servants), per the article “Rage against the Common Core” by professor David L. Kirp.​​

​(27) Army Corps of Engineer’s (ACE) – Vice President Dick Cheney’s political appointee managers demoted Bunny Greenhouse, an SES political appointee whistleblower, for rightfully questioning Dick Cheney’s (sole source) Haliburton contract during the Iraq war, that illegally enriched Cheney and his Halliburton.

(III) How State Governors Used Congress’ 1978 CSRA To Destroy State Democracies
This same federal deregulation, privatizing, outsourcing cancer has now spread and infected state governments. North Carolina’s (NC) former Governor Pat McCroy copycatted the fed’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) practice of politicizing all executive branch positions to now allow a Governor (politician) to mismanage an entire NC’s executive branch. Then, Governor Pat McCroy, fired Joe Vincoli, a North Carolina civil servant for political reasons, and for rightfully questioning Governor McCrory’s lawless acts. Bill Gates rightfully questioned a growing number of state’s gross waste, fraud and abuse of their citizen’s tax dollars. The big question is this. How many of the other 49 state Governors have copycatted Congress’ 1978 CSRA to steal the American people’s tax dollars, at those state and local levels?