Can you name a person who is considered a whistle-blower?

Question

Whistle-blower meaning he exposes wrongdoing, fraud or inefficiency in his or her workplace, where one is not supposed to. Maybe you can give me a name of a famous person or a person who has appeared in articles or magazines. Maybe a journalist, a politician or any other type of people you could think of. Mention the name ok?

and maybe you could add what they did to deserve such title.. (^u^)

Answer 1

Famous whistleblowers
Shawn Carpenter is a former Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories who discovered that a sophisticated group of hackers were systematically penetrating hundreds of computer networks at major US defense contractors, military installations and government agencies and looting sensitive information. After informing his superiors at Sandia, he was directed to not share the information with anyone, because management cared only about Sandia's computers. Given his prior military service, and his obligation to protect the national security, he voluntarily worked with the US Army and the FBI to address the problem. When Sandia discovered his actions, they terminated his employment and revoked his security clearance. His story was first reported in the September 5, 2005 issue of Time.
Richard Convertino is a former federal prosecutor who obtained the first conviction of a defendant in a terrorism case post-9/11. After Convertino testified before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee in September 2003 about the lack of Bush Administration support of anti-terrorism prosecutions post-9/11, Convertino alleges the Justice Department leaked information and violated a court order to publicly smear him in retaliation for his whistleblowing. Additionally, the Justice Department indicted Convertino for obstruction of justice and lying, which Convertino alleges is further whistleblower retaliation.
Cynthia Cooper of Worldcom and Sherron Watkins of Enron, who exposed corporate financial scandals, and Coleen Rowley of the FBI, who later outlined the agency's slow action prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks. The three were selected as Time's People of the Year in 2002.
Allan Cutler - the first whistle-blower on the Canadian "AdScam" or sponsorship scandal. Without WB protection, he was fired by the Canadian government.
Joseph Darby - a member of the United States military police who in 2004 first alerted the U.S. military command of prisoner abuse in the Abu Ghraib prison, in Abu Ghraib, Iraq.
Walter DeNino - a student who questioned Eric Poehlman's integrity.
Satyendra Dubey - accused employer NHAI of corruption in highway construction projects in India, in letter to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. Assassinated on November 27, 2003. Enormous media coverage following his death may lead to Whistleblower Act in India.
Sibel Edmonds - a former FBI translator naturalized American citizen of Turkish descent, who was fired in 2002 by the FBI for attempting to report coverups of security issues, potential espionage, and incompetence. She has been gagged by the State Secrets Privilege in her efforts to go to court on these issues, including a rejection recently by the United States Supreme Court to hear her case without comment. She is now founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC) that is looking to lobby congress and help other whistleblowers with legal and other forms of assistance.
Daniel Ellsberg - a former State Department analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, a secret account of the Vietnam War and its pretexts to The New York Times, which revealed endemic practices of deception by previous administrations, and contributed to the erosion of public support for the war.
W. Mark Felt, (aka Deep Throat) - until very recently, a secret informant who in 1972 leaked information about United States President Richard Nixon's involvement in Watergate. The scandal would eventually lead to the resignation of the president, and prison terms for White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman and presidential adviser John Ehrlichman.
A. Earnest Fitzgerald - Department of Defense auditor, was fired in 1973 by President Richard M. Nixon for exposing to Congress the tidal wave of cost overruns associated with Lockheed's C-5A cargo plane. After protracted litigation he was reinstated to the civil service and continued to report cost overruns and military contractor fraud, including discovery in the 1980's that the Air Force was being charged $400 for hammers and $600 for toilet seats. Mr. Fitzgerald retired from the Defense Department in 2006. [1]
Bunnatine "Bunny" H. Greenhouse - former chief civilian contracting officer for the United States Army Corps of Engineers exposed illegality in the no-bid contracts for reconstruction in Iraq by a Halliburton subsidiary.[2][3]
Katharine Gun - a former employee of Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), a British intelligence agency who in 2003 leaked top-secret information to the press concerning illegal activities by the United States and the United Kingdom in their push for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Cathy Harris - Former United States Customs Service employee. Exposed rampant racial profiling against Black travellers while working at Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. According to Harris's book, Flying While Black: A Whistleblower's Story, she personally observed numerous incidents of Black travellers being stopped, frisked, body-cavity-searched, detained for hours at local hospitals, forced to take laxatives, bowel-monitored and subjected to public and private racist/colorist humiliation. The book also details her allegations of mismanagement, abuses of authority, prohibited personnel practices, waste, fraud, violation of laws, rules and regulations, corruption, nepotism, cronyism, favoritism, workplace violence, racial and sexual harassment, sexism, intimidation, on and off the job stalking, etc., and other illegal acts that occurs daily to federal employees especially female federal employees at U.S. Customs and other federal agencies.
Douglas Keeth - a former executive vice president at the Sikorsky Aircraft division of United Technologies Corp., who in 1989 accused Sikorsky of improperly charging the Army in advance for work not yet completed. The helicopter manufacturer agreed to pay $150 million to the federal government to settle the case, and Keeth received a payment of $22.5 million.
Karen Kwiatkowski - a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force who worked as a desk officer in the Pentagon and in a number of roles in the National Security Agency. Has written a number of essays on corrupting political influences of military intelligence leading up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and has said that she was the anonymous source for Seymour Hersh and Warren Strobel on their exposés of pre-war intelligence.
S. Manjunath formerly manager at Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL), and crusader against adulteration of petrol. Shot dead on November 19, 2005, allegedly by a petrol pump owner from Uttar Pradesh.
Hans-Peter Martin - who accused European Parliament members of invalid expense claims in 2004.
Christoph Meili - a night guard at a Swiss bank. He discovered that his employer was destroying records of savings by Holocaust victims, which the bank was required to return to heirs of the victims. After the Swiss authorities sought to arrest Meili, he was given political asylum in the United States.
Samuel Provance - a system administrator for Military Intelligence at the Abu Ghraib prison, who publicly revealed the role of interrogators in the abuses, as well the general effort to cover-up the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse itself.
Frank Serpico - A former New York City police officer who reported several of his fellow officers for bribery and related charges. He is the first officer to testify against police corruption.
Russ Tice - a former intelligence analyst for the National Security Agency (NSA), the U.S. Air Force, Office of Naval Intelligence, and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Most recently is one of the sources used by the New York Times in reporting on the NSA wiretapping controversy. He had earlier been known for reporting suspicions that a DIA colleague of his might be a Chinese spy.
Linda Tripp - former White House staff member who disclosed to the Office of Independent Counsel that Monica Lewinsky committed perjury and attempted to suborn perjury, and President William J. Clinton committed misconduct, by denying the Clinton-Lewinsky relationship in the Paula Jones federal civil rights suit.
Paul van Buitenen - who accused European Commission members of corruption. (See Resignation of the Santer Commission).
Frederic Whitehurst - Chemist, Federal Bureau of Investigation, was the FBI Laboratory's foremost expert on explosives residue in the 1990's, and became the first modern-day FBI whistleblower. He reported lack of scientific standards and serious flaws in the FBI Lab, including in the first World Trade Center bombing cases and the Oklahoma City bombing case. Dr. Whitehurst's whistleblower disclosures triggered an overhaul of the FBI's crime lab following a report by the U.S. Department of Justice Inspector General in 1997. Dr. Whitehust filed a federal lawsuit claiming whistleblower retaliation, and he reached a settlement with the FBI worth more than $1.16 million. [4] Whitehurst now directs the FBI Oversight Project of the National Whistleblower Center.[5]
Jeffrey Wigand - former executive of Brown & Williamson who exposed his company's practice of intentionally manipulating the effect of nicotine in cigarettes on the CBS news program 60 Minutes. Famously known as the man who blew the whistle on Big Tobacco and almost single-handedly revealed the health dangers of smoking to the public.
Andrew Wilkie - Australian intelligence officer at the Office of National Assessments who resigned in March 2003 over concerns intelligence reports were incorrectly claiming Iraq possessedweapons of mass destruction.

Answer 2

One GREAT whistle blower is Jeffrey Wigaund-(sorry I'll have to check spelling of last name hopefully I'll not forget before posting as I tend to do....!) He's the guy who used to be an executive with maybe Philip Morris? Sorry it was with Brown & Williamson and he exposed the dangers and all the addictive additives as well as other below the belt marketing by the tobacco companies several years ago. (Thank you!! Sorry, I quit smoking 20 years & 3 months ago now....)

There's the other kind such as the current administration who actually "blew the whistle" is that's what you'd refer to it as, on the CIA agent who exposed the lies in Bush's "State of the Union" address as well as his other speeches convincing not only the majority of people in THIS country that Iraq was responsible for the attacks on the WTC on 9-11-2001, but he also obviously convinced the U.K. to do so as well & a few other allies. Odd thing is if you haven't seen this little report on CNN or elsewhere, 43% of people in THIS country STILL believe that Iraq & Hussein are the one's involved & still have WMD & all the other lies that were told to try to convince EVERYONE to go to war in Iraq....(sorry, never me!!) I'm sorry I don't remember the name of the CIA agent right now but her husband was also a major and very outspoken critic of the administration at first for using what Bush KNEW to be false reports and lies to convince this country to go to Iraq instead of going after Bin Laden, then as a major critic of the administration for releasing the name of his CIA wife. That's such a very dangerous thing for ANYONE to ever do!!!! And guess what? Although they've been found to be directly involved with releasing her name, not a single one will ever be prosecuted for doing so. I'm sorry but Bush has committed considerably more impeachable acts that Clinton ever did....which were none...read very closely the constitution and you'll notice an excerpt that states the USA shall NEVER cross over international waters to attack a country that we are currently not at war with. And we were never at war with Iraq, Hussein didn't trust Bin Laden and Al Queada was NEVER in Iraq before we invaded.

FYI.

Answer 3

"Deep Throat" blew the whistle on U.S. Pres. Richard Nixon and Watergate. W. Mark Felt was Deep Throat.

Allan Cutler - the first whistle-blower on the Canadian "AdScam"

You can find all sorts of stuff by just Yahoo/Googling "whistleblower".

Answer 4

Benedict Arnold

Answer 5

Thats twisted, pretty sure it wouldnt be allowed here in the UK, the BBC gets into trouble for **** like that and it makes you wonder who would keep watching fox news after hearing of this apart from the ones who want to believe it - ultra conservatives. Its not so much the fact they lie thats messed up, its the fact they actually filed to make it official and got it passed in a court...have you got a link to this story?

Answer 6

I dont know about whistle blowing. I saw a movie about Horatio Hornblower. Does that help?

Answer 7

Besides Monica, how about the little kid that said the emperor wasn't wearing any clothes?