Whistleblowing

Whistleblowers

Aleksei Dymovsky, December 28, 2009. Aleksei Dymovsky faces fraud charges for his videos alleging corruption in Russia's police force.

Edward Snowden, June 9, 2013. Edward Snowden, seen during a video interview with The Guardian.

William Kingston, former Associate Professor in Trinity College, Dublin, June 15, 2012. I may have helped to get it started in three articles on the civil service which were re-published in my Interrogating Irish Policies. I argued for an external body which would have power to release any public servant from all obligations under the Official Secrets Act, and also to ensure that whistleblowers would not be punished.

Hervé Falciani, April 23, 2013. When Hervé Falciani, a former IT worker at HSBC, exposed billions of euros’ worth of financial fraud, he became both a thorn in the side of his ex-employer and a hero to tax regulators across the European Union.

Paul Bergrin. Opening arguments were heard on January 22, 2013 in the Newark, NJ federal courthouse for the retrial of Abu Ghraib whistleblower, Paul Bergrin. Bergrin, 56, was a prominent defense attorney in New Jersey who had previously served as a JAG lawyer in Iraq and an AUSA in the Newark U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Joe Darby, the soldier who triggered the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal by sending incriminating photos to military investigators, poses in New York, Aug. 10, 2006.

Detlef Tiegel. call-centre-employee – before and after (Lübeck). In May “DER SPIEGEL” a popular German Magazine revealed, that the German Telecom not only bugged unwelcome journalists but also their own supervisory board. The management tried to find the source of the regular information leaks to the media and the public. In August came the affair – selling of illegal data sets of Lotto-players. This is the story of Detlef Tiegel.

Andrea Fuchs, former dealer in securities (Frankfurt/Main). Andrea Fuchs, 48, is currently contesting her ex-employer, a large German bank, in her 19th labour court proceeding (in words: nineteenth). It’s all over for her ex-bosses, two so-called top bankers. Their “last resort” was that the public prosecutor’s office in Frankfurt was not keen on an investigation (“due to lack of public interest”) and spared the two bankers from criminal proceedings in return for payments of fines of almost 18,000 and 9,000 Euro.

Wendell Potter, June 27, 2012. When he left his successful career of almost 20 years, which included public relations at Humana and Cigna, he did so quietly with no plans to talk about what he witnessed. In 2009, however, he changed his mind and testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. Since then, Potter has continued, in his words, “exposing the routine practices in the health insurance industry.”

Bradley Manning, March 12, 2013.

L to R: Thomas Drake, J. Kirk Wiebe, William Binney, former NSA employees.

John Kiriakou, former CIA officer.

Chris Tobe, July 5, 2012 . Tobe: 'State pensions worst financial crisis in Kentucky since Great Depression'

Kathy Bolkovac. A former US police investigator of 12 years, she served as a human rights investigator for the International Police Task Force (IPTF) in Bosnia. Kathy's activities in these areas are highlighted in her published work and in a film inspired by her story: 'The Whistleblower', Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman’s Fight for Justice.

Peter Van Buren, July 17, 2012. Peter Van Buren is the author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, a sarcastic, funny, sad, angry book about his work for the Department of State as the leader of two Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT) in rural Iraq, 2009-2010.

Santiago Escobar, September 22, 2010. Whistleblower Santiago Escobar released tapes in which Diego Borja purportedly spilled revelations about Chevron 'Dirty Tricks.'

Erin Brockovich, March 2, 2011. W.R. Grace Corporation whistleblower.

Sibel Edmonds, former FBI linguist.

Philip Agee, former CIA officer.

Bradley Birkenfeld, UBS Tax Evasion Whistleblower, To Get $104 Million From IRS

Mike McQueary. McQueary is seeking millions in damages for how he says he was treated after reporting having seen Jerry Sandusky showering with a boy in 2001.

Daniel Ellsberg.

Frank Snepp, former CIA Officer

Whistleblowing Supporters and Exploiters

Alan Grayson. Upon returning from holiday recess, the 111th Congress of the United States introduced bill H.R. 4444, better known as the Defund the Crooks Act, in early January 2010. First introduced by Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL), the Defund the Crooks Act prohibits the Federal Government from awarding Federal funds, contracts, or grants to covered organizations. The Act also prohibits the Federal Government from promoting certain organizations or from entering into other agreements with these organizations.

Erica Brady. The team of tax lawyers at The Ferraro Law Firm exclusively represents tax whistleblowers.

Jesselyn Radack, April 10, 2012. GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack is filling in for prominent blogger Glenn Greenwald this week for his popular Salon column.

Laura Poitras, June 14, 2013. Laura Poitras makes films about a world changed since 9/11.

Catherine Crump, December 3, 2012. “We’re getting more into whether this is targeting political speech,” said Catherine Crump, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union who is representing plaintiffs in two lawsuits challenging digital border searches.

Glenn Greenwald, June 10, 2013. Glenn Greenwald, a reporter of The Guardian newspaper, speaks during an interview in Hong Kong Monday, June 10, 2013.

Jacob Appelbaum, February 5, 2013. A federal appeals court has ruled the government can continue to keep secret its efforts to pursue the private information of Internet users without a warrant as part of its probe into the WikiLeaks. The case involved three people connected to the whistleblowing website whose Twitter records were sought by the government, including computer security researcher Jacob Appelbaum and Icelandic parliamentarian Birgitta Jónsdóttir.

Julian Assange, WikiLeaks

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Oliver Stone, Filmmaker

Amy Goodman, TV

Bill Keller, Journalist

Daniel Domscheit-Berg, OpenLeaks

John Perry Barlow, Philanthropist

George Soros, Philanthropist

Neil McBride, US Attorney, Eastern District of Virginia

David Coombs, Attorney for Bradley Manning