Joe Spielberger

Joe Spielberger serves as Senior Policy Counsel at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO), a nonpartisan watchdog organisation in Washington, D.C., which advocates for whistleblower rights, merit-based civil service, government ethics and transparency. In September 2025 he appeared as the minority witness before the House Task Force on Declassification and focused his testimony on strengthening whistleblower protections for national-security personnel.

• Senior Policy Counsel at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO)
• POGO as a nonpartisan watchdog organisation in Washington, D.C.
• Work focus: whistleblower rights, merit-based civil service, government ethics, transparency
• September 2025 testimony as minority witness before the House Task Force on Declassification
• Emphasis: strengthening whistleblower protections for national-security personnel
• Highlighted systemic gaps in legal protections for intelligence and military whistleblowers
• Criticised the lack of independent enforcement mechanisms and vulnerability via security-clearance retaliation

For the UAP timeline, Spielberger represents the whistleblower rights infrastructure: he provides the legal-structural flank without which UAP whistleblowers like Grusch or Barber would depend on pure individual heroism. His testimony anchors the question of UAP protection in a broader governance framework and thereby turns the Task Force into a testing ground for American whistleblower legislation as well.