Government Accountability Project Inc.

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2012 to Dec 31, 2012

Signed

Aug 1, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$4,352,533

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. O gap continued to serve as co-counsel in a case against former us secretary of defense 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 working with 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 much more expensive than a system developed in-house, much less effective than the alternative system, and 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. Gap helped drake continue to tell his story to the media and also worked with three other former nsa employees/whistleblowers exposing the nsa program that drake blew the whistle on. O gap represented former cia officer john kiriakou, who blew the whistle on waterboarding, exposed that the united states indeed had a torture program, publicly acknowledged that waterboarding actually constituted torture, and refused to provide training for its application. In april 2012, the justice department indicted kiriakou on three espionage charges, making a false statement, and a charge of violating the intelligence identities protection act. With gap's assistance, in october kiriakou pled guilty to the last charge in exchange for the certainty of a short jail sentence -- 30 months as opposed to 45 years -- so that he may be able to see his children grow up. Three weeks later he received the callaway award for civic courage. Gap also led in the drafting of a petition for kiriakou's commutation by president barack obama. Thousands of individuals signed the petition, including government officials like former us secretary of state madeline albright, numerous high-level cia officers, and major hollywood players such as oliver stone and susan sarandon. O gap filed an amicus curiae brief in hedges v. Obama, supporting a lawsuit challenging the indefinite detention provision of the national defense authorization act (ndaa). The case was brought by a group of writers, journalists, and activists on the grounds that the ndaas provision authorizing indefinite military detention would chill first amendment- protected activities of speech, writing and association. O gap also continued to represent a 24-year foreign service officer with the u.s. Department of state who made numerous whistleblower disclosures about massive iraq reconstruction fraud.

Activity 3

International o gap released a report that analyzed the impact of the united nations' (un) internal justice system on accountability practices in un peacekeeping missions. The report, tipping the scales: is the united nations justice system promoting accountability in the peacekeeping missions or undermining it? Identified shortcomings in the uns accountability mechanisms, based on a review of judgments from the organizations internal justice system and interviews with key un personnel, attorneys, and whistleblowers. The report also identified deficiencies in the scope of the un whistleblower protection policy, including the fact that the policy does not protect un peacekeepers or police officers who report misconduct.the report was released through an exclusive with the associated press, and articles about it appeared in nearly 200 publications around the world. The report was also distributed to the us mission to the un, congressional contacts, un committees and the secretary-general, among others. O gap discussed the findings of the above-named report at a gap american whistleblower tour stop at the university of houston -- which featured un whistleblower kathryn bolkovac and a screening of the movie the whistleblower -- and at a conference in london entitled international laws on human trafficking and related crimes in the context of peacekeeping. O gap continued its investigation into corruption connected to privatization in egypt. In september 2012, gap participated in the arab administrative development organization conference, held in cairo to advance good governance in post-revolution egypt. Gap was invited to share our expertise about whistleblowing and our anti-corruption methodology. During our presentation in arabic, gap shared our investigation into privatization fraud in egypt involving the former minister of investment, and then-current world bank managing director, mahmoud mohieldin. O gap made a presentation at the world food programme (wfp) in italy regarding whistleblower protections at intergovernmental organizations. The presentation, which was sponsored by the wfp staff association, was made to staff representatives, who were flown in from wfp operations around the world. Gaps presentation, which included an evaluation of the wfps whistleblower protection policy and investigations system, was well- received. O gap represented two clients in their cases before the united nations dispute tribunal (undt) -- the court of first instance of the two-tier internal justice system through which un employees contest violations of their rights. Gap was quoted in stories in reuters, the guardian and al jazeera about the related case of a former employee of the un interim administration mission in kosovo (unmik) who was allegedly retaliated against after reporting to un investigators a possible kickback scheme involving local politicians and senior unmik officials. While not a gap client, as a result of this coverage gap was invited to brief house committee on foreign affairs investigators about our concerns on the un whistleblower protection policy.

Filer

EIN

52-1343924