Whistleblower Aid client Jeremiah Schofield was in the room where it happened when the Trump administration admitted to trying to “kill off” 2.7 million people in the social security system in order to ruin their lives. Our statement:

BREAKING: The Trump administration tried to falsely declare 2.7 million people as dead in Social Security records in order to upend their lives. Our client, whistleblower Jeremiah Schofield, spoke with the Washington Post about his explosive new revelations.

WATCH: See what ICE whistleblower @ryanschwank.bsky.social and Whistleblower Aid CEO Libby Liu told Web Summit attendees in Vancouver about accountability and technology

"It would appear this new effort serves only the purpose of trying to induce fear and intimidate the workforce..." Our co-founder Mark Zaid breaks down the Trump administration's real goal in proposing that all federal employees sign NDAs: https://ow.ly/rrJJ50Z4RPr

Tulsi Gabbard's resignation was long overdue. The next DNI must work to undo the damage done during her tenure. Our full statement: whistlebloweraid.org/whistleblowe...

Today our Chief Counsel @andrewbakaj.bsky.social presented on ethics in national security to undergraduate and graduate students from across the country at The Washington Center's National Security Seminar.

Listen: "The big picture here is accountability." Whistleblower Aid client Ryan Schwank joined CBC's Michelle Eliot to discuss why he decided to step forward and disclose wrongdoing at ICE https://ow.ly/OBpR50Z1HuA

Whistleblower Aid CEO Libby Liu and client Ryan Schwank took center stage today at #WebSummitVancouver to talk about how ICE has strayed from the Constitution in the current administration.

"The system is fully non-functional at this point," our client ICE whistleblower Ryan Schwank told @pocan.house.gov about the internal mechanisms to report wrongdoing in the administration. Watch the full episode: youtu.be/tDFe_nmZqXo?...

Congrats to our co-founder @markzaidesq.bsky.social! Tonight @aclu-dc.bsky.social is honoring Mark for his work representing whistleblowers and defending the Constitution. www.acludc.org/news/65-year...

The US Senate recently passed a bipartisan bill to enhance whistleblower protections for government contractors. Our democracy is at a crossroads, and it's vital that federal employees and contractors are empowered to report lawbreaking. https://ow.ly/amQL50YXOk5

DHS is reportedly restoring full training for ICE officers. Our client, ICE whistleblower Ryan Schwank, brought the dangerous training cuts to light in congressional testimony, and his whistleblowing is having an impact. Read more: https://ow.ly/kSsE50YW94L

WATCH: Whistleblower Aid client Nick Enrich spoke with MS NOW's Lawrence O'Donnell last night about his new book "Into the Wood Chipper" and the revelations he made about DOGE's dismantling of USAID. youtu.be/jB8Va6Vmhsk?...

When democracy and rule of law are under assault, accountability is the answer: It's what we do every day, and it's the solution we're bringing to the Skoll World Forum. We're excited to meet so many social entrepreneurs, investors, and civil society leaders! https://ow.ly/SCbT50YNAUS #SkollWF

#ICYMI: Our Chief Strategy Officer Naomi Seligman was highlighted in the New York Times' 'The Morning' newsletter this weekend for her op-ed in the wake of Eric Swalwell's resignation.

“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