“The consequences… could be measured in millions of lives": our client, USAID whistleblower Nicholas Enrich, on the human cost of dismantling USAID. He spoke to Democracy Now! about his new book, "Into the Wood Chipper" https://ow.ly/GSPX50YLhpL

“What you’re seeing is the outcome of decisions made in real time, without safeguards”, our client, USAID whistleblower Nicholas Enrich, says of DOGE's destruction of USAID, covered in his new book "Into the Wood Chipper." Christiane Amanpour CNN https://ow.ly/tTgS50YLhiv

“Dismantling USAID didn’t just weaken an agency—it made America less safe": our client, USAID whistleblower Nicholas Enrich, explains on MS NOW why he spoke up-- and published a book about the experience: https://ow.ly/nxHr50YLh6q

“I had a front-row seat to the destruction of an institution”: our client, @USAID whistleblower and new author Nicholas Enrich, on what he witnessed inside USAID, via https://ow.ly/9Zyn50YLh3R via Morning Joe

“We were operating in chaos at the very moment the world needed stability most," our client, USAID whistleblower Nicholas Enrich writes in his new book, "Into the Wood Chipper," on what happened inside USAID as DOGE dissolved it. https://ow.ly/Xuxw50YLh0b via Devex

Whistleblower Aid's Chief Strategy Officer Naomi Seligman: "Neither party wants to admit it, but both foster a culture that too often enables predators in positions of power while cowing those around them into silence." Read her whole op-ed here: https://ow.ly/WvVt50YKZWr

As the Trump Administration shuttered USAID, our client Nicholas Enrich was told to fly to Kenya, access 27,000 sets of PPE in a UN warehouse, and get it to Uganda to curb an Ebola outbreak. “What was I supposed to do?" Enrich, who led USAID’s global health bureau, writes: https://ow.ly/rx6o50YKEXm

“We were digging graves—our own, and those for millions of others,” our client Nicholas Enrich, who led USAID’s health bureau, says of USAID's closure. In January 2025, the Administration froze all aid, and "by mid-February people were starting to die,” he writes: https://ow.ly/a2Xg50YKEPZ via Devex

“ICE officers are trained to do a specific mission,” our ICE whistleblower Ryan Schwank tells “Here & Now” on WBUR today. “They're being used outside that mission now... in surge operations around the country... " Listen: https://ow.ly/W6fF50YKAjz 3/3 David Kligerman

ICE training has been cut 40% so “whatever training they had before, they're getting almost half less now than they did," Schwank says, in areas such as safe transportation and detention. "These were, even at the best of times, trained at a low standard.” https://ow.ly/3hiz50YKA6F 2/3

“There’s a significant connection” between surging ICE detainee deaths and the way ICE is shortening--and short-circuiting--agent training, our ICE whistleblower Ryan Schwank tells “Here & Now” on WBUR today. https://ow.ly/ynQL50YKzSL 1/3

ICE whistleblower Ryan Schwank on "Here and Now": "I had so many concerns over what I was seeing happening with the training... and how these cadets were basically being set up to fail... I had to say something." Listen here: https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/04/16/ice-whistleblower

"Here & Now" is ON-AIR NOW with our ICE whistleblower client Ryan Schwank, talking about the rising number of deaths in ICE custody. Listen live https://ow.ly/6Cpx50YKybE

"Here & Now" will broadcast an interview with our ICE whistleblower client Ryan Schwank today at 1:40 p.m. ET about his experience instructing ICE cadets and then testifying in Congress about it. Listen live https://ow.ly/5aAP50YKxrN WBUR

We’re loving the @NYTimes.com review of “INTO THE WOOD CHIPPER” by our client Nicholas Enrich: "Enrich describes moments of astounding, unapologetic ignorance on the part of USAID’s new political appointees..." https://ow.ly/nSK350YJXNK

“They just came in with a sledgehammer,” our client, former USAID Global Health chief Nicholas Enrich, said of DOGE staffers who last year shuttered USAID. His book, “Into the Wood Chipper" came out today. More: MS NOW https://ow.ly/R6Z450YJ834

"I needed to report it, but I had to figure out how.... I found Whistleblower Aid, and we made the disclosures." – Ryan Schwank, former ICE attorney, on his decision to become a whistleblower https://ow.ly/kmvC50YITW5

"I had no idea that USAID did this kind of work," USAID's chief of staff told our client, former USAID Global Health chief Nicholas Enrich, as he described the agency's life-saving programs. "I just assumed it was just abortions." Which USAID never funded. More: https://ow.ly/PPyh50YITax

"To Whistleblower Aid, who showed me that courage is contagious," our client, former USAID Global Health chief Nicholas Enrich, writes on the flyleaf of his book, out today: "Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower's Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID." https://ow.ly/wpL650YIShb

#ICYMI: Our client, former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank warned that having ICE in airports "forces the public to submit to a criminal checkpoint system if they wish to exercise their freedom of travel." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tom-homan-ice-airports-tsa-dhs-shutdown/

That's not how you restore integrity and credibility to DHS, Secretary Mullin. We offered a roadmap when you took over the department, and we urge you to use it. Laid out here:

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Need weekend reading? Here's the latest from Mark Zaid, Esq and Andrew Bakaj about Homeland Security, its new Secretary, and how he can fix the broken agency he now leads, via Just Security https://ow.ly/RymK50YCW70

Last week, we released a statement about the DOJ OIG declining to investigate our clients' revelations of politically motivated firings at the FBI. And now this news comes out about the same OIG declining to investigate another complaint. https://ow.ly/ewUC50YBWkm

Help us hold power to account: https://ow.ly/fehT50YBS44 The The New York Times today underscores why our work is so vital: "Lawyers for a fired Justice Department lawyer say the agency’s inspector general appears to have ignored at least 20 different requests to scrutinize misconduct."

WATCH - Whistleblower Aid client and former ICE legal instructor Ryan Schwank discusses the dangerously stripped-down training for new ICE recruits as ICE hiring soars, with Jaide Garcia of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution www.ajc.com David Kligerman

Our client, ICE lawyer turned whistleblower Ryan Schwank, blew the lid off ICE Academy failures and the agency's illegal searches—but that’s just the start. Here's our to-do list for the new Homeland Security Secretary via Just Security Mark Zaid, Esq Andrew Bakaj https://ow.ly/Ri6H50YANBw

Homeland Security is broken—but the new Secretary can turn it around. He should start by listening to whistleblowers, empowering the Inspector General, restoring ICE training, and ending unconstitutional searches, write Mark Zaid, Esq and Andrew Bakaj in Just Security https://ow.ly/Oam050YALv0

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We represented Frances Haugen in 2021 when she testified in the US Senate about how harmful Facebook and Instagram were to young users. Now, we're representing whistleblowers like Dr. Jason Sattizahn, a key witness in one of this week's judgments against Meta. https://ow.ly/ICSv50YA3qU

#ICYMI Senator Grassley Advocates for #Whistleblowers at #SunshineWeek: “Whistleblowers Are Treated Like Skunks at a Picnic” https://ow.ly/oYJZ50YzKZK#ICYMI#Whistleblowers#SunshineWeek

Huh? Congress won't fund govt because Members are clashing over ICE, so unpaid TSA agents are quitting, so Trump sends in replacements ... from ICE? Fun fact: ICE agents get NO training to work in airports: https://ow.ly/I5aG50Yzk4a David Kligerman

Thanks to @democracynow.bsky.social for hosting our client, ex ICE legal instructor Ryan Schwank, today! "I cannot tell you what the [ICE] cadets are taught about airport security because it is not part of the training program," he said, as ICE deploys to US airports. https://ow.ly/jM3C50Yzj6u

We represent public-interest whistleblowers--who often risk everything to expose waste, fraud, and abuse--at no charge. But we cannot do it alone. Please support the brave whistleblowers holding powerful people to account: https://ow.ly/zzSX50YxK1h

We represent public-interest whistleblowers--who often risk everything to expose waste, fraud, and abuse--at no charge. But we cannot do it alone. Please support the brave whistleblowers holding powerful people to account: https://ow.ly/RKGn50YxJKF David Kligerman

#ICYMI WATCH: ICE #whistleblower and Whistleblower Aid client Ryan Schwank says ICE drastically and dangerously cut training for new recruits as they raced to meet ambitious expansion and deportation quotas, via Laura Coates on CNN: https://ow.ly/IqrA50YybJm David Kligerman

#ICYMI WATCH: Ex ICE instructor and #whistleblower Ryan Schwank and his lawyer David Kligerman address dangerous cuts to training at ICE Academy with Jake Tapper on CNN https://ow.ly/8ZLY50Yybf9

Since 2017, Whistleblower Aid has helped courageous public servants expose grave abuses of power--at great risk to themselves but no charge for our legal and advisory services. But we need your help to keep accountability and democracy alive: https://ow.ly/IBro50YxJJp

The DOJ Office of Inspector General (OIG) won't investigate revelations our clients have made about FBI leadership firing employees for political reasons. This administration has weaponized the OIG system against those who need it most. Congress must restore its integrity. https://ow.ly/H4bQ50YxQKf

An ex ICE lawyer says deploying ICE at TSA checkpoints "forces the public to submit to a criminal checkpoint system if they wish to exercise their freedom of travel. At best, this forces Americans to accept the kind of ...systems" used in the Soviet Union. David Kligerman https://ow.ly/BlfA50YxQ3x

We represent public-interest whistleblowers--who often risk everything to expose waste, fraud, and abuse--at no charge. But we cannot do it alone. Please support the brave whistleblowers holding powerful people to account: https://ow.ly/j9n250YxJI9

WATCH: Stephen Colbert Thanks Our ICE Whistleblower Client Ryan Schwank https://ow.ly/VW5C50YxJUx David Kligerman Stephen Colbert

On @ThisAmerLife: ICE whistleblower and @WBAidLaw client Ryan Schwank: “Those cadets have every intention of being good law enforcement officers, but they are being set up... to be a danger to the rest of us." https://ow.ly/manQ50YxJTS David Kligerman

Since 2017, Whistleblower Aid has helped courageous public servants expose grave abuses of power--at great risk to themselves but no charge for our legal and advisory services. But we need your help to keep accountability and democracy alive: https://ow.ly/gbEP50YxJHo

Today's The Washington Post highlights what can happen when a rookie ICE agent gets too little training and detains a man by mistake--as our client, ICE lawyer turned Whistleblower Ryan Schwank, warned Congress in February: https://ow.ly/v33c50Yvqwo DavidKligerman.BSky.social

Our democracy is under attack. Whistleblower Aid is a pioneering, non-profit legal organization that helps whistleblowers report concerns—safely and lawfully. We support our clients on a pro bono basis. But we need you. All donations are fully tax-deductible: https://ow.ly/azk150YuQFH

#ICYMI: ICE guidance directs new agents to enter homes without a judge’s warrant. Those disclosures came from two ICE whistleblowers @wbaidlaw.bsky.social, via The Associated Press https://ow.ly/nE0M50YtMJG David Kligerman

#ICYMI Our DOJ client Julius Nam came forward to inform Congress the Department of Justice was warned repeatedly about the risks of gutting DOJ's Community Relations Service, then failed to acknowledge those warnings in court. https://ow.ly/RZI150YuRiZ#ICYMI

Our democracy is under attack. Whistleblower Aid is a pioneering, non-profit legal organization that helps whistleblowers report concerns—safely and lawfully. We support our clients on a pro bono basis. But we need you. All donations are fully tax-deductible: https://ow.ly/5ZTv50YuQCg

#ICYMI: A leaked ICE memo revealed problems vetting new recruits, adding context to whistleblower testimony about training and hiring practices, via Newsweek https://ow.ly/GROS50YtNc2 David Kligerman