Leahy and Grassley call for Justice Department whistleblower protections

Sen. Patrick Leahy, left, with Sen. Chuck Grassley. Photo by Jasper Craven/VTDigger
WASHINGTON — In a letter to Attorney General Jeff Session this week, Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, say they are concerned that the Department of Justice has been slow to implement reforms to protect whistleblowers in the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Grassley, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Leahy, the longest serving member of the committee, wrote that the depa