Daniel P. Meyer
He is a member of the bar, District of Columbia, a veteran of the first Gulf War and a National Security Studies Fellow – Maxwell School, Syracuse University.
While at the White House, he assisted the President's 'War Rooms' for the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 and the North American Free Trade Agreement of 1994.
He conned the USS LaSalle during that ship's mine sweeping operations to liberate Mina Al Shuaiba, and also during the repelling of Islamic Guard pirates off Nakhiloo Island in 1991.
He is the former general counsel of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), where he represented Teresa Chambers and worked the gubernatorial issues surrounding the case of Cindy Ossias.
2006) (alleging that the United States Department of the Interior ("DOI") violated the whistleblower provision of the Clean Air Act ("CAA"), 42 U.S.C.§ 7622);[4] and appellate litigation in behalf of the shipping services sector of the economy following the consolidation of railroad ownership in the 1990s.
As DW&T, Meyer also handled sensitive disclosures to Congressional staff, most notably whistleblowing regarding LOGCAP, Retired Military Analysts, the Afghan National Hospital, and the movie Zero Dark Thirty.
In the spring of 2010, he was announced as a finalist for the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal, National Security and International Affairs category.,[10] an award he shared with all his investigators, including Andrew P. Bakaj.
[19] When Virginia Governor Ralph Northam was exposed in blackface, Meyer used the media attention to focus security clearances on their own potential liabilities for personal conduct, "It all depends on whether the behavior can turn you into an asset for enemies of the State.
If you have engaged in personal conduct which could be used to leverage you into leaking classified information, then you need to self-report to your security officer to remove, for instance, the blackmail liability of wearing blackface.
"[20] During the 2019 Federal furlough, Meyer flagged the financial considerations issue saturating the President's decision to shut down the Government: "High credit card balances can trigger a security review, even if you are paid up.
The beginning and the end of the Trump Impeachment inquiry were both twenty-four months after the security investigation and removal of Meyer as the head of Intelligence Community whistleblowing.
[29] Meyer's appearance on Wisconsin Public Radio, in particular, was delivered as a general tutorial on whistleblowing[30] and regarding the importance of the Congress in the articulation of American sovereignty.
[33] Meyer's public outreach supports a balanced approach to the relationship between the Congress and the President, at issue, for instance, in the recent Supreme Court decision in Lucia v. Security Exchange Commission (2018) and its progeny.
[34] This analytic line was also evident in comments to the press following the issuance of the Mueller report, "the tension between Congress and the White House doesn't really involve the law.
[44] Meyer also supports proactive media efforts to assist public employees in understanding the limitations that may be applied to them retroactively during events such as the 2018–2019 United States federal government shutdown,[45] a shutdown which produced a good natured tete à tete with Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) attorney and chief ethics officer Virginia Canter over Crowdfunding in support of furloughed Federal employees.
"[48] Meyer frequently offers his assessment on developments regarding the effectiveness of Federal oversight as well as national security issues including counterintelligence and the collection, analysis, and dissemination of intelligence.
[53] Meyer's support for inspector general reform extended, in mid-2019, to unsuccessful efforts to reconfigure the remains of the old IC Whistleblowing program closed down in 2017 through the Intelligence Authorization Act.
That media access combined with subsequent disclosures by other intelligence officers have provided the facts known by the public regarding what became the take down of the program informally known as IC Whistleblowing from 2013 to 2018.
If a cadre within the Intelligence Community or any of the 72 or so federal offices with security clearances is slow rolling or obstructing compliance with a presidential directive, those officials need to answer for their insubordination.
Meyer advised the committee that environmental laws were to be read together, each successive act of Congress forming an evolving set of mandates on federal agencies, all of which were to be organized as a whole under an Integrated Natural Resources Management Plan.
[67] During the winter of 2006, Meyer appeared in Congressional testimony with Mr. Thomas F. Gimble, Acting Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Defense, and Ms. Jane Deese, Director of Military Reprisal Investigations before the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations.
Meyer's February 2006 testimony discussed the importance of whistleblower-initiated complaints driving the investigative process so that the offices of inspectors general are not used to target whistleblowers.
This concern for the independence of government decision-making is also present in his first appearance in a court of law, making oral argument in United States v. Graf, 35 M.J. 450, 1992 CMA LEXIS 1032 (Sept. 30, 1992).
In the year prior to the election, he was known for his objection to Burkittsville's treatment by the makers of The Blair Witch Project, a mock documentary horror film that became a hit in 1999.
'[72] During this service from 1996 to 2002, he aided the town in its response to the Blair Witch Project and also assisted local residents in developing preservation strategies during the buildout of communications technologies after the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
[73] Meyer is currently an usher and a lector, Saint John's Parish Church in Hagerstown, Maryland and is exceedingly active in alumni affairs for Cornell University.
Taking his commission from the USNA in 1954, he served briefly in Flying boats at Willoughby Spit and on board the USS Arneb (AKA-56) before entering the Submarine school at Groton, Connecticut.
In his naval service, Captain Meyer conducted the surveillance of the first Soviet fleet operations into the south Atlantic and was the weapons officer of the USS George Washington during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
[79] In 1969 he left sea duty and served on NATO staff in Norfolk, Virginia prior to a Pentagon assignment in Naval Operations (OPNAV) (OP-02) under Admiral Bob Long.
Both Ramin and Dan Meyer were tapped into Cornell's Sphinx Head Society and worked successfully to end that organization's ban on women members.
