Riches for ratting promises to become a new industry. Banking "bounty hunters" will spring forth and help find people who have information, tell authorities and then split the reward.
In America, we were once taught that those who told the truth, those who issued warnings, no matter how personally inconvenient, were heroes. What happened to that American value?
The financial reform bill's whistleblower provisions require that any whistleblower providing "original information" leading to a penalty over $1 million shall receive between 10 and 30% of that collection.
The peace movement needs to stand with whistleblower Bradley Manning and Wikileaks in their efforts to let Americans see the truth about what the military is doing in our name. We can handle the truth!
Blackwater's genuine mistakes, as well as unfair characterizations in the media, have taken a toll on its public image. But we need to be fair: a lot has changed in the 15 months since Eric Prince stepped down as the company's head.
In the beginning there was Chuck Hamel.The year was 1984, and the VA businessman was convinced Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. had screwed him out of millions of dollars. That set Hamel off on a quest to make the oil companies pay.
Birkenfeld, 45, has asked President Barack Obama to commute a 40-month term he began in January at Schuylkill Federal Correctional Institution for his...
Whistleblowers like those at WikiLeaks make huge sacrifices and are a vital last resort to check the powers of government.
It's quite possible that the future of accountable government is teetering on the brink with the arrest of the 22-year-old Army intelligence specialist and the fugitive manhunt for the WikiLeaks founder.
WASHINGTON -- Hired in 2001 by the National Security Agency to help it catch up with the e-mail and cellphone revolution, Thomas A. Drake became convi...
Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower famous for leaking the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in 1971, castigated President Obama Friday for the gov...
WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission has had a bounty program for two decades to reward outside whistleblowers. But it has made f...
In the final episode, good prevailed when fellow contestants voted against the evil, manipulative, lying, 'swearing on kids' lives' player, Russell.
The current Whistleblower Protection Act is a fraud that, ironically, is the primary reason would-be whistleblowers remain silent observers. Politicians need to stop stalling the restoration of a credible WPA. Delays could be deadly for Americans.
By Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) unveiled his latest financial reform proposal on Monday, ...
A man is bound to see some strange things working for 18 years on Alaskan oil rigs. According to Mike Mason, it wasn't unusual to see cheating on saf...
There was much finger-pointing this week, but the politicians, and our entire leadership, should also point a finger at themselves, for allowing private industry to increasingly devour public power, and gut regulatory responsibility.
Officer Frank Palestro was a union delegate at the 42nd Precinct until last week, when he was outed as the tipster who secretly reported allegations o...
People like Birkenfeld and Ellsberg and Bunnatine Greenhouse (who blew the whistle on the illegal no-bid contracts given to Halliburton in Iraq) -- should be treated like heroes, not pariahs, and certainly not like inmates.
The second part of my interview with Daniel Ellsberg, the true American hero who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971.
The broad criminal conspiracy is said to have resulted in, among other things, the sale of nuclear weapons technology to black market interests including Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, Libya and others.
The Project on Government Oversight has just learned that one of its sources for exposing apparent acts of physical and sexual harassment by a State D...
Bradley Birkenfeld may be one of the most effective whistleblowers in the nation's history. His reward? A 40-month prison sentence.
Just over two weeks ago, FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds was finally allowed to speak about much of what the Bush Administration spent years trying to keep her from discussing publicly.
For the last 30 years, whistleblower protection laws have been a sham, and whistleblowers need the opportunity to appear before a jury.
