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Jan 25, 2022 · He was increasingly concerned that a colleague, Lionel (not his real name), seemed to have developed a close relationship with a 12 year old girl in the home. During a holiday, Lionel insisted that the girl should travel in his car ...
Jun 23, 2023 · Showcasing the impact made by 12 courageous people across the world who blew the whistle to protect the public interest.
- Edward Snowden: Exposing illegal surveillance in the U.S. and beyond. Perhaps the most famous whistleblower in recent years, Edward Snowden was working as a contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA) in the United States in 2013 when he felt compelled to act.
- Maria Efimova: A small island story with huge consequences. Following the release of the 2016 Panama Papers, Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia had been researching vast corruption and money laundering schemes in Malta.
- Antoine Deltour & Raphaël Halet: Lifting the lid on Luxembourg’s tax scandal. In 2011, Antoine Deltour, a former PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) employee, passed information to French journalist Edouard Perrin.
- Mark Felt: The guy they called ‘Deep Throat’ brings down a presidency. In 1972, Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein broke the Watergate scandal.
- Mark Whitacre
- Vera English
- Peter Buxton
- Joe Darby
- Karen Silkwood
- Edward Snowden
- Daniel Ellsberg
- Frank Serpico
- Chelsea Manning
- W. Mark Felt
In 1992 the corporate vice president of Archer Daniel Midland visited the FBI with some potentially damaging information about the company. Mark Whitacre – the subject of the 2009 film The Informant! – soon teamed up with the FBI for a three-year undercover operation to expose the company’s price fixing scheme. While Whitacre may have been given im...
While working as a lab technician at a nuclear facility operated by General Electric in 1984, Vera English was alarmed by the frequency of radioactive spillages. English contacted both her supervisor and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission about her concerns, but nothing was done and English was fired shortly after. After a long legal battle, her Sup...
As a U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) disease investigator, Peter Buxton publicly blew the whistle on the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, an unethical medical study conducted by the PHS and the CDC. The purpose of the study, which was conducted on poor African American sharecroppers from 1932 to 1972, was to see what happens when syphilis is untreated. De...
In 2004, Army reservist Joe Darby turned in a CD containing photographs of prisoner mistreatment and torture taken at Abu Ghraib to the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigation Division. The photos were aired on 60 Minutesand prompted global outrage. While seven officers stationed at the military prison in Iraq were immediately removed from the site and ...
In 1972, Karen Silkwood began working as a chemical technician at the Kerr-McGee nuclear plant near Crescent, Oklahoma. Silkwood joined the local Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers Union, and investigated health and safety issues at the plant as a union activist. Silkwood discovered numerous safety issues including exposure of workers to contamination,...
In 2013, Edward Snowden, a former computer intelligence consultant, released documents on top-secret National Security Agencyprograms to reporters at The Guardianand the Washington Post. Snowden tried to raise his ethical concerns about the global surveillance programs internally but was ignored. In June of 2013, Snowden blew the whistle publicly o...
Former military analyst Daniel Ellsberg Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, a secret account of the Vietnam War, to the New York Timesin 1971. The Pentagon Papers demonstrated that the Johnson Administration had repeatedly lied to both the public and Congress about the scope and actions of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam. Ellsbe...
Frank Serpico was the first police officer in history to openly testify about corruption in the New York Police Department. Serpico worked as a plainclothes detective throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, and, in 1967, he reported police corruption, including bribes and payoffs, to no avail. When his attempts to curb corruption internally failed, S...
Whistleblowers are often figures of controversy, and Chelsea Manning exemplifies this more than any other figure in recent U.S. history. In 2010, Manning, a U.S. Army intelligence analyst, released the largest set of classified documents in U.S. history, primarily published by WikiLeaks. The trove included documents describing detention, abuse, and...
For more than thirty years, people speculated about the identity of “Deep Throat,” the secret informant to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the Washington Postreporters who broke the Watergate scandal in 1972. In 2005, Felt’s identity was finally made public. Felt was Associate Director of the FBI, the second-in-command position at the Bureau, when...
Jul 15, 2019 · Katherine, not her real name, is one of more than 400 people who gave evidence to the All Party Parliamentary Group for Whistleblowing detailing cases including child sex abuse, financial fraud,...
Jan 18, 2023 · To help you understand the details of whistleblowing, we look at three different examples brought to the Employment Tribunal. Whistleblowing - officially known as ‘making a protected disclosure’ - is when you raise a public interest concern about wrongdoing that you have seen or experienced at work.
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This page serves as a comprehensive exploration of key whistleblowing cases that have occurred throughout the year, unraveling stories that have captured public attention and ignited debates on a range of issues.
