Quotes About Whistleblowing

When deliberating about blowing the whistle, many employees become ethical egoists, using their own self-interest as the determining factor for what they should do in the situation.

I mean, Ed Snowden was basically saying the same things that Bill Binney and Thomas Drake and other U.S. whistleblowers had said before him. But he came out more publicly, and maybe revealed more. He showed that when the U.S. government said, 'We are not surveilling U.S. citizens,' that was a lie.

The purpose of whistleblowing is to expose secret and wrongful acts by those in power in order to enable reform.

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up.

WikiLeaks serves as a back-up for those who want to tell the truth about the inner workings of government when the mainstream media is not willing or taking too long to publish.

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.

My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.

The sentencing of Manning marked the day when the state formally declared that all who name and expose its crimes will become political prisoners or will be forced, like Snowden, to flee into exile.

I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.

Discrediting the messenger as a misfit to discredit the message is an old ploy when it comes to whistle-blowing, and it often works. The

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions.

During my work there I came across some very significant issues that I started reporting in December of 2001 to the mid-level management within the FBI.

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

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I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.