Whistleblower

If you are considering becoming a whistleblower,
be warned that the official narrative about "Whistleblower Protection" is basically a lie. Before proceeding further, you are recommended to read this essay, and the stories of some of the whistleblowers listed below.

Whistleblower
Interest of	• Courage Foundation • Brian Martin • National Security Whistleblowers Coalition • Project Veritas • US/Office of Special Counsel • Wikileaks
Subpage(s)	•Whistleblower/Premature death
Someone who exposes wrongdoing which they have witnessed or deduced, typically by being privy to inside information while at work.

A whistleblower has inside knowledge of activities which are concealed from the general public. The word "whistleblower" was coined by Ralph Nader. The insider testimony of whistleblowers means that they are invaluable in Wikispooks' mission to shed on the different between observed activities and claimed activities of people and groups.

Official narrative

The official narrative is that whistleblowers are welcomed as long as they act in the public interest. Many nations and other large organisations have enacted "Whistleblower Protection" measures specifically designed to protect whistleblowers. These encourage whistleblowing by offering statutory protection and/or financial rewards for those who expose wrongdoing.

Problems

Legal vindication for whistleblowers is rare. More often than not, so-called "whistleblower protection" is in practice no such thing and less than 1/10 of those who follow official whistleblowing procedures report any benefit from doing so. Researcher Brian Martin describes them as "trojan horses". Since 9/11 in particular, the official narrative is belied by ever harsher treatment of actual or would be whistleblowers, up to and including the murder of the those who show themselves intent on publicising particularly sensitive information.

In 1995, Steve Wilson and Jane Akre refused to tailor their investigation into RBGH to suit the wishes of Monsanto's PR department, and hoped that as whistleblowers they would be entitled to protection or compensation.. However, a Florida Court of Appeals denied them any protection, since the US has no laws against distorting or falsifying the news.

In May 2018, the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority fined the CEO of Barclays, Jes Staley, £642,430 for trying to identify an anonymous whistlebower who in 2016 send a letter to the bank's board. The authorities also reported "limited gaps" in Barclays' whistleblowing policies and procedures. In December 2018, New York's Department of Financial Services fined Barclays Bank PLC and its New York branch $15 million for Staley's behaviour.

Legal compensation

Some jurisdiction's award a fixed percentage of money recovered to whistleblowers of financial fraud. Brad Birkenfeld received over $100 million on this basis, although he was initially jailed.

Support groups

In 2004, FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds launched the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition to try to assist other whistleblowers. In December 2013, speaking at the CCC conference, purported MI6 whistleblower, Annie Machon, announced that she would be starting the Courage Foundation to protect whistleblowers.

Premature deaths

Full article: Whistleblower/Premature death

Some whistleblowers have experienced premature deaths, whether of bona fide natural causes, suicide, murder or assassination.

 

Examples

Page name	Exposed	Description
9-11/Whistleblowers	9-11
Bo Abbott	CIA/Drug trafficking	A drug trafficking pilot who attempted to blow the whistle on the CIA's illegal drug trafficking but who disappeared - i.e. was probably murdered by the cabal
Philip Agee	CIA US/Deep state
Gary Aguirre	SEC/Corruption	An SEC whistleblower
Kevin Annett	Canada/Genocide	When he reported that the church of which he was a minister had been involved in genocide, Rev. Kevin Annett was told to shut up. He didn't. He researched the topic and wrote books and made a movie about it. His Wikipedia page has been deleted at least 4 times as "non-notable" because he has been blacklisted with dynamic silence by corporate media. He continues to expose institutional corruption and child abuse.
Scott Bennett	Deep state Booz Allen Hamilton Terrorism/Funding/US United States Department of Justice/Corruption	Spent 2 years in jail as a result of speaking his mind and attempting to blow the whistle on fraud and corruption inside the US war machine.
John Ashley Berry	GCHQ Mass surveillance
Steve Bigelow	MICC/Corruption
William Binney	NSA/Waste NSA/Corruption	Former senior technical director of the NSA, in charge of thousands of employees, William Binney resigned after 9-11 to blow the whistle on fraud and corruption.
Brad Birkenfeld	UBS	A banker who exposed massive tax fraud at UBS, and after 2½ years in jail was eventually paid $104M for his pains.
Thomas Bittler	Transportation Security Administration	TSA whistleblower, dismissed along with Ray Guagliardi.
John Bonifield	CNN	CNN producer who blew the whistle
Christopher Boyce	Australia/1975 coup d'état	A code clerk turned counter spook who also tried to see secret to the USSR, got caught, escaped and caught again. He revealed how the CIA was involved in the 1975 Australian coup.
Gordon Douglas Brown	De Beers	Exposed massive corruption by De Beers
Chris Busby	Chris Busby/Research on The Health Risks of Radiation	An independent scientist whose work demonstrates that inadequate risk models are used by the establishment in its estimation of the health impact of low dose exposure to radiation. A concerted campaign has tried to undermine his credibility because his message challenges the status quo.
Smedley Butler	War profiteering The Business Plot	A US general who exposed the coup that financiers had planned for USA.
Peter Buxtun
Jane Bürgermeister		Against the concerted opposition of Big Pharma, Jane Bürgermeister has attempted to highlight risks and malfeasance associated with vaccines and emerging diseases.
John Carman	US/Customs and Border Protection
Celerino Castillo	CIA/Drug trafficking "Iran-Contra" Operation Fast and Furious	A former DEA agent who exposed deep state involvement in drug trafficking.
William Chasey	CIA plans to assassinate the Libyan Lockerbie suspects
David Christensen	JFK/Assassination
Eric Ciaramella
Wesley Clark	US/Foreign policy
Greg Coppola	Google
Edward Cutolo	Operation Watchtower	A drug smuggler who named a lot of names about the CIA's drug trafficking, and who then died a sudden death, as did many of those he named.
Eugene Dinkin	JFK/Assassination	A spook who intercepted a communication about the JFK assassination
Document:Shell Game, A Whistleblowing Report to the United States Congress		A report to congress
Thomas Drake	NSA/Trailblazer NSA/Waste NSA/Corruption
Sibel Edmonds	Operation Gladio/B	Sibel Edmonds was recruited by the FBI as a translator in the wake of 9/11. She quickly turned whistleblower when she discovered security breaches, cover-ups and malpractice at numerous levels. The US government has made her "the most gagged person in the history of the United States".
John Ehrlichman	"War on Drugs"	Nixon insider who blew in 1994 the whistle on the "War on Drugs"
Daniel Ellsberg	Pentagon Papers	A feted whistleblower who exposed some details of how the US government was waging the Vietnam War. The fact that he was not persecuted has lead several commentators to suggest that he may not in fact have been all he appears to be. Specifically, the Pentagon Papers may have been a limited hangout.
Rudolf Elmer	Julius Bär	A banking whistleblower.
Iman Fadil	Silvio Berlusconi	An assassinated model.
Hervé Falciani	HSBC
Tony Farrell
Perry Fellwock	Mass surveillance ECHELON	The first NSA whistleblower
Harry Ferguson	UK/Torture	A spook who admits that the UK tortured IRA members in Northern Ireland.
Alayne Fleischmann	JPMorgan Chase	A witness to massive financial crimes who was contacted by the authorities and blew the whistle publicly only in November 2014 after realising that the Justice department and the SEC were intent on hushing up rather than publishing the fraud.
Howard Fredrics	Kingston University
Stephen Frost	UK/Army
John Taylor Gatto	School	Probably the most famous teacher in USA, who became an unschooling activist, having turned up irrefutable proof that the forced schooling system was never intended to benefit children, but quite the reverse.
Mike German	FBI/Corruption	Exposed the corrupt management of 'counterterrorism' at the FBI
Bunny Greenhouse
Frank Grevil	Anders Fogh Rasmussen#Lies	A major in Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste who revealed that Anders Fogh Rasmussen had been lying about Iraq's alleged WMD's.
Ben Griffin	SAS#Culture	SAS turned whistleblower and ant-war activist, subject to legal gags, who gives an unflattering inside perspective of the SAS culture.
Ray Guagliardi	Transportation Security Administration
Katharine Gun	GCHQ/Illegal spying NSA/Illegal spying	A Chinese translator who exposed illegal efforts by the GCHQ to illegally bug the UN offices of 6 nations in an effort to start an illegal war. Considered a hero by many.
Ted Gunderson
Daniel Everette Hale
... further results

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
US/Deep state	“The apparatus of the American deep state is a vast system of institutions in which the proverbial right arm does not know what the left one is doing. The CIA, FBI, NSA and the military services are compartmentalized to a point where very few of the bureaucrats in their employ can put their finger precisely on what is going on. Best known examples of that kind of entity are the resistance movements in German occupied Europe of World War II, and the cell system of an expansionist communist movement in the early stages of its development. Movie goers are familiar with the ‘need to know’ limitations on the information given to participants in an operation. The numerous levels of ‘security clearance’ make that clear. They have created labyrinths of hidden policy making over which no effective political control can exist. This applies to internal control as well. The institutions of the American deep state are riven by turf battles, schisms, something quite noticeable in their conflict with President Trump and, indeed, eruptions from officials with a conscience. This produces leaks and whistleblowing. These may be seen as emergency actions in the absence of functioning accountability structures.”	Karel van Wolferen	4 April 2017

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:How to identify CIA limited hangout operation	article	18 June 2013	Webster Tarpley	Citing the Pentagon Papers as an example, Tarpley suggests that both Wikileaks and the Snowden affair are limited hangout operations by the CIA.
Document:NSA GCHQ and the Death of Gareth Williams	article	14 November 2011	Trowbridge Ford	A speculative article connecting the NSA with the death of Gareth Williams
Document:Whistleblowers - Risks and skills	book chapter	2007	Brian Martin	A sound set of advice for would be whistleblowers, and a strong discouragement from trusting the official channels. As a whistleblower, you need to be aware that a wide set of options is available, and your success in blowing the whistle will depend only in part upon the injustice you expose. Another crucial aspect is your skill set and support network. This essay provides sound advice from an establishment-sceptic researcher who has reviewed a lot of whistleblowing cases.
Document:Wikileaks - Open Letter to the US Government	open letter	14 July 2011	RevolutionTruth

 

Official examples

Name	Exposed	Description
Julian Assange		A "hacktivist" of mysterious background, whose website, Wikileaks, has been the conduit for a lot of whistleblowing. His pronounced disinterest in 9/11 is particularly notable.
Mark Felt		The supposed true identity of 'deep throat', who played a part in the Watergate Coup.
Edward Snowden	Mass surveillance NSA/Boundless Informant NSA/PRISM	IT specialist and former contractor for the NSA, Edward Snowden's 2013 leaks about their mass surveillance programs were widely reported by the corporate media, an interesting contrast to the leaks of earlier whistleblowers that were roundly ignored.
Udo Ulfkotte	Corporate media/Deep state control	Former editor of a German broadsheet who exposed press corruption while also subscribing to an Islamophobic narrative.

Rating

18 July 2016 Robin  A good selection of important whistleblowers neglected by corporate media.

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