(intern) The Government Accountability Project

The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is the nation’s leading whistleblower protection and advocacy organization. GAP’s mission is to promote corporate and government accountability by protecting
whistleblowers, advancing occupational free speech, and empowering citizen
activists. Located in Washington, D.C., GAP is a nonpartisan, public interest
nonprofit organization.

GAP is a consistent high-profile newsmaker, with its recent clients including:

• Maria Garzino, United States Army Corps of Engineers, who exposed that
emergency pumps installed in New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina won’t
adequately protect the city
• Robert MacLean, a former FAA Air Marshall who was fired for revealing a plan
to remove Marshals from international flights during a time of heightened
security concerns.
• Dr. Dean Wyatt, a USDA veterinarian who exposed the horrific mistreatment of
animals in two slaughterhouses, indicating a systemic problem in the national
food safety system.
• Several anonymous World Bank whistleblowers, whose disclosures (among others)
GAP released, eventually leading to the resignation of Bank President Paul
Wolfowitz.

GAP is offering a Homeland Security internship for summer semester 2010 in its
Washington, D.C. office.

• Research and writing legal memoranda, letters, and litigation documents
related to protecting national security and human rights whistleblowers in
various forums including the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), federal
court, and the Office of Special Counsel (OSC).
• Advocacy aimed at prioritizing public safety, preserving privacy and civil
liberties in the face of threats to national security, increasing government
transparency, and curbing warrantless surveillance, excessive government
secrecy, torture, rendition, cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment, and
politically-motivated discrimination.
• Drafting blogs, congressional testimony, and other advocacy documents
regarding newsworthy national security and human rights issues.
• Monitoring events related to national security and human rights issues in the
media and in Congress.

GAP offers stipends of $1000 to undergraduates and $1750 to graduate students
for 12 weeks of full time work, with restrictions (contact Dylan Blaylock at
202.457.0034, ext 137, or dylanb@whistleblower.org for more on stipends.)

Students must have a laptop computer to work from for the entire duration of
the internship. This fulltime internship will run from mid-May to Mid-August
(negotiable).