Government Accountability Project Inc.

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2011 to Dec 31, 2011

Signed

Nov 15, 2012

Return Version

2011v1.2

Gross Receipts

$2,529,147

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Homeland security / government employee o gap continued to advocate in support of two military veterans who were illegally rendered, detained and treated harshly by the u.s. Military at camp cropper in iraq. Out of many suits brought against former us secretary of state donald rumsfeld over the torture of detainees in iraq, this case, in which gap has joined as an amicus, was one of only two that was allowed to proceed. O in 2011, gap continued to serve as co-counsel in another case against donald rumsfeld, for the first-ever case of preventive whistleblowing in which a u.s. Citizen was illegally detained, imprisoned and abused by the military for nine months without charge, counsel, or judicial review in order to prevent the possible release of information the government believed was sensitive. O gap continued our efforts in the critical case of gap client thomas drake -- the nsa whistleblower who exposed that, post-9/11, a new agency program designed to monitor/analyze computer data, cell phone records, and email was: a) much more expensive than an in-house developed system; b) much less effective than the alternative system; and c) did not have privacy protections in place that the other available system did. Drake made valid disclosures revealing the failings of several major nsa programs that use computers to collect and sort electronic intelligence, costing billions of dollars. Gaps efforts catapulted mr. Drakes case into the national spotlight, and as a result, 60 minutes and a new yorker cover story by acclaimed investigative journalist jane mayer, which gap coordinated, pitched, and arranged, featured mr. Drakes story. In june 2011, with gaps help, mr. Drake earned a huge victory for national security whistleblowers when he accepted a plea bargain arrangement on the charges brought against him by the federal government. While drake was facing 10 felony counts and 35 years in jail, the government dropped all the original charges, and mr. Drake pled to a minor misdemeanor (exceeding authorized use of a government computer), and received a sentence of probation and community service. At his sentencing hearing, the judge flatly rejected the governments requests for heavy fines and lambasted the government for its handling of the case, stating that the 2 year delay between when the government raided drakes home and when they handed down his indictment was unconscionable and did not pass the smell test. Reading a statement after the sentencing, drake specifically thanked gap, and continued to do so in numerous public appearances.

Activity 3

International o in 2011, gap continued to represent a whistleblower who was a mid-level professional in the information solutions group (isg) in 2007, when he leaked information to fox news that embarrassed then world bank president paul wolfowitz, and precipitated a search for the leaker inside the bank. The search was described as inconclusive and it ended in june 2007. In october 2008, another leak occurred from someone in the bank to the same reporter, and the ensuing investigation inadvertently produced evidence used to charge this whistleblower with the previous wolfowitz leak. Nearly two years later, another leak was used as a pretext to hack into his personal e-mail account and obtain evidence on the wolfowitz leak. Bank investigators then read e-mails from january 2007, while the leak they were supposedly investigating occurred in october 2008, and they read privileged e-mails between the whistleblower and his attorney written in 2002. The intrusiveness of the investigation violates federal and state law, and the procedures reflect an unreformed investigations unit at the bank. Gap represented this whistleblower in the banks justice system and challenged the illegal actions. The banks internal administrative tribunal ruled in 2011 that our client should be reinstated. The tribunals decision established the rights of staff members to reasonable expectations of electronic privacy on their workplace computers and reinforced the principle of proportionate disciplinary action. The decision in the case curtails the ability of management to single out a staff member for draconian punishment because he is suspected of whistleblowing. Until this ruling was made, bank management enjoyed absolute authority to discipline staff members capriciously, with little regard for past performance or the seriousness of the transgression sanctioned. O in 2011, gap investigated corruption connected to privatization in egypt. In the wake of the uprising that deposed the hosni mubarak regime, an egyptian whistleblower with information about the privatization of the historic retail chain omar effendi (oe) approached gap. In 2011, an administrative court annulled the deal privatizing this chain because of illegalities in the sale five years before. The ruling particularly singled out the minister of investment, mahmoud mohieldin, as a responsible party. At the time of the privatization, the whistleblower accused mohieldin of forcing the sale to a foreign investor at a fraction of the chains real value. We have tracked a deluge of similar allegations of corruption surrounding mohieldin and other former top-level officials from the deposed mubarak regime. We produced a series of investigative blogs focused on the role of mohieldin in at least two other suspicious (and potentially criminal) privatizations. All of the identified transactions showed the same pattern as the annulled oe affair. In addition, we tracked and charted former colleagues of mohieldins, many of whom worked with him on these transactions. Most of them have been investigated, and many have been arrested, tried and incarcerated. Mohieldin, however, was never investigated despite credible and documented allegations of corruption. In contrast to his colleagues who have been held accountable for their parts in the corruption of the mubarak government, mohieldin remains unquestioned in his post as managing director at the world bank. Throughout 2011, gap pressed the world bank to adequately address these serious allegations on three separate occasions, still without success. O in 2011, gap represented a former senior advisor to an international monetary fund (imf) executive director who was terminated after he raised concerns about a cobalt-nickel mining project in cameroon. Cameroons mining sector is marred by a record of mismanagement and lack of transparency in awarding concessions. As a result, the development of the countrys abundant natural resources often benefits only a limit

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52-1343924