PERSON: Mark Zaid

Whistleblower Aid

Co-Founder

Mark S. Zaid is an American attorney, based in Washington, D.C., with a practice focused on national security law, freedom of speech constitutional claims, and government accountability.

In 1998 he founded the James Madison Project, an organization dedicated to reducing government secrecy. It is interested in the Freedom of Information Act and government whistleblowers. He is co-editor of Litigation Under the Federal Open Government Laws. He is the co-founder of a legal organization called Whistleblower Aid, intended to help whistleblowers forward their concerns without incurring legal liability.

In September 2017, Zaid and former U.S. State Department whistleblower John Tye co-founded Whistleblower Aid, a legal organization that assists people in the government and the private sector to safely report lawbreaking. Initially focused on employees and contractors of the U.S. federal government, Whistleblower Aid emphasizes it is not Wikileaks. “No one should ever send classified information to Whistleblower Aid,” the firm states. “Whistleblower Aid will never assist clients or prospective clients with leaking classified information.” Instead, would-be whistleblowers with classified information will be directed to investigators with security clearances to help expose wrongdoing without breaking the law or incurring criminal liability.

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