Tom Mueller is the author of “ Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud .”Welcome to the golden age of whistleblowers. If our private and public institutions were healthier, we wouldn’t require singular acts of courage to halt wrongdoing. So unsupervised and uncoordinated comments by individual officials are discouraged and may even be punished.”Anti-whistleblower pressure intensified with the Obama administration’s implementation of Insider Threat programs throughout government. Trump’s recent personal vendetta against the multiple whistleblowers as spies who should be eliminated equates whistleblowing with a capital crime. They say aloud what many of us only think in silence.

Source: Washington Post October 07, 2019 20:13 UTC