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Opinion | Eric Swalwell resigned. But Congress' troubling culture remains. Both parties foster a culture that too often has enabled predators in positions of power while cowing those around them into silence.

Naomi is a former whistleblower—and she writes how political culture prioritizes loyalty & scoring political points over protecting victims of abuse. Read the op-ed here: www.ms.now/opinion/eric...

#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.

“Into the Wood Chipper”: Whistleblower’s Inside Story of DOGE Shredding USAID, 14 Million May Die A new book tells the inside story of the second Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID. Its author, Nicholas Enrich, worked at USAID for over a decade before he was pushed out of the agency in early 2025, when the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency summarily cut its staff and funding. An estimated 14 million people are projected to die “unnecessarily” over the next five years due to these cuts, and nearly a million, mostly children, already have, says Enrich. His new memoir, Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower’s Account...

“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

“Into the Wood Chipper”: Whistleblower’s Inside Story of DOGE Shredding USAID, 14 Million May Die A new book tells the inside story of the second Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID. Its author, Nicholas Enrich, worked at USAID for over a decade before he was pushed out of the agency in early 2025, when the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency summarily cut its staff and funding. An estimated 14 million people are projected to die “unnecessarily” over the next five years due to these cuts, and nearly a million, mostly children, already have, says Enrich. His new memoir, Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower’s Account...

“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
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“Into the Wood Chipper”: Whistleblower’s Inside Story of DOGE Shredding USAID, 14 Million May Die A new book tells the inside story of the second Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID. Its author, Nicholas Enrich, worked at USAID for over a decade before he was pushed out of the agency in early 2025, when the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency summarily cut its staff and funding. An estimated 14 million people are projected to die “unnecessarily” over the next five years due to these cuts, and nearly a million, mostly children, already have, says Enrich. His new memoir, Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower’s Account...

“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

“Into the Wood Chipper”: Whistleblower’s Inside Story of DOGE Shredding USAID, 14 Million May Die A new book tells the inside story of the second Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID. Its author, Nicholas Enrich, worked at USAID for over a decade before he was pushed out of the agency in early 2025, when the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency summarily cut its staff and funding. An estimated 14 million people are projected to die “unnecessarily” over the next five years due to these cuts, and nearly a million, mostly children, already have, says Enrich. His new memoir, Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower’s Account...

“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

“Into the Wood Chipper”: Whistleblower’s Inside Story of DOGE Shredding USAID, 14 Million May Die A new book tells the inside story of the second Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID. Its author, Nicholas Enrich, worked at USAID for over a decade before he was pushed out of the agency in early 2025, when the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency summarily cut its staff and funding. An estimated 14 million people are projected to die “unnecessarily” over the next five years due to these cuts, and nearly a million, mostly children, already have, says Enrich. His new memoir, Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower’s Account...

“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

Opinion | Eric Swalwell resigned. But Congress' troubling culture remains. Both parties foster a culture that too often has enabled predators in positions of power while cowing those around them into silence.

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

Former USAID health chief documents agency’s turbulent end in new book Nicholas Enrich — former top global health official at USAID turned whistleblower — details the internal chaos that ensued during the rapid destruction of the agency in the months following U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration.

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

Former USAID health chief documents agency’s turbulent end in new book Nicholas Enrich — former top global health official at USAID turned whistleblower — details the internal chaos that ensued during the rapid destruction of the agency in the months following U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration.

“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

'I had to say something': What ICE whistleblower wants you to know Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney-turned-whistleblower Ryan Schwank is worried that a proposal to give ICE more funding may set up a situation where Congress will not be able to do oversight for years.

“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

'I had to say something': What ICE whistleblower wants you to know Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney-turned-whistleblower Ryan Schwank is worried that a proposal to give ICE more funding may set up a situation where Congress will not be able to do oversight for years.

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

'I had to say something': What ICE whistleblower wants you to know Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney-turned-whistleblower Ryan Schwank is worried that a proposal to give ICE more funding may set up a situation where Congress will not be able to do oversight for years.

“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

'I had to say something': What ICE whistleblower wants you to know Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney-turned-whistleblower Ryan Schwank is worried that a proposal to give ICE more funding may set up a situation where Congress will not be able to do oversight for years.

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: www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/04/16/ic...

"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

Book Review: ‘Into the Wood Chipper,’ by Nicholas Enrich Nicholas Enrich’s tell-all memoir, “Into the Wood Chipper,” has advice for others caught between their conscience and their government.

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

'Front row seat to the destruction' of USAID: 'Into the Woodchipper' delves into end of agency Former Acting Assistant Admin for Global Health at USAID, Nicholas Enrich, joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book 'Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower's Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID'.

“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

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The View From Inside Trump’s DHS Dozens of agents and officials share their stories about working in the Department of Homeland Security during the harsh crackdown on illegal immigration.

"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

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Video ‘They didn’t even know what we did’: Former official on DOGE cuts that gutted USAID | Whistleblower Aid Congratulations to our client Nicholas Enrich on the publication of his new book, "Into the Wood Chipper"! In this interview with ABC News, Enrich, a former USAID Acting Assistant Administrator of Global Health, describes finally getting a chance to explain the 60-year-old agency's health work the day *after* his team was let go. “I just gave a high-level overview,” Enrich says. The top brass, he discovered, didn’t know what USAID did. “‘These are the infectious diseases we work on. Here's what we do in maternal and child health…’" he says he explained. "And the chief of staff looks at...

"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:
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"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

Tom Homan says ICE will keep assisting TSA "until the airports feel like they are 100%" Congress has yet to approve funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which has been shut down for over 40 days.

#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." www.cbsnews.com/news/tom-homan-ice-airpo...

How Secretary Mullin Can Reform DHS Suggestions from whistleblowers to Secretary Markwayne Mullin on reforming the Department of Homeland Security.

Secretary Mullin needs to do his job. Here's the full op-ed by attorneys Mark Zaid and Andrew Bakaj explaining how: www.justsecurity.org/135134/secre...

It comes down to this: anyone leading DHS right now has a LOT of work to do to restore the department's legitimacy in the eyes of the public. There's no time for pointless rhetoric designed to provoke outrage.

1. Restore the independence of the DHS Inspector General.
2. Listen to whistleblowers.
3. Reinstate the full training curriculum for ICE officers.
4. Stop searching homes without a judicial warrant.

Markwayne Mullin’s sanctuary city airport remark raises concerns Mullin's ascension to lead the Department of Homeland Security arrived at a moment of significant turmoil.

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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How Secretary Mullin Can Reform DHS Suggestions from whistleblowers to Secretary Markwayne Mullin on reforming the Department of Homeland Security.

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