“I can say without hesitation there will be no retaliation for anyone making an allegation or a call to a whistleblower hotline,” he said.
Lawyers for the undisclosed whistleblower disagreed.
“However, this move is clearly retaliatory and may also constitute obstruction of a congressional inquiry,” said the letter from Trian Leavitt, president of Empower Oversight, a group representing whistleblowers, and Mark Lytle, a partner at Nixon Peabody.
