The Dirty Paper Project and Podcast

D. Bill Braddick, Kali Robinson, Negative P.

The Military Whistleblower Protection Act, Title 10 U.S.C. § 1034 and DoD 7050.06, Military Whistleblower Protection of July 23, 2007 was designed to protect service members from being punished for making protected communications or reporting act of Fraud, Waste and Abuse or other acts wrong doing. Contrarily, the law lacked the verbiage of “enforcement” and the stipulations of who can initiate an investigation. This leaves giant loopholes for perpetrators or enablers to circumvent the system(s) using the UCMJ to legally create “hostile environments” by criminalizing service members for legal acts with impunity. Additionally, this document explores the appeals process and explains through real-life experience why there’s a need for an appellate strictly for Article 15’s that lack the standard of proof “beyond reasonable doubt”.
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