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All potential whistleblowers face a choice. Report through official channels -- their agency's whistleblower program or a company's compliance office. Or, go to Congress or the press. In yesterday's post, an accounting professor made the case for using inside channels....

Turns out hearsay can be pretty reliable. The validity of secondhand information about President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine reemerged as an issue at Wednesday's impeachment hearings. The president’s supporters initially dismissed the whistleblowers' revelations as unreliable “hearsay.” They are now...

Whistleblowing is good for our health. Not necessarily the whistleblower’s health. But, while we’ve been watching the battle over whistleblower protection in Washington, insiders have been busy flagging health fraud. As a result, there are patients out there who may...

 John Kostyack is the executive director of the  National Whistleblower Center A national conversation is underway about whether the President’s actions on the Ukraine matter warrant impeachment – a question on which the National Whistleblower Center does not take a...

I was punished for telling the truth. You hear that a lot from whistleblowers. Not what they expected for doing the right thing. Some organizations see whistleblowers as disloyal. So, when they fire, harass, demote, dox, or professionally blacklist a...

Major news outlets aren't naming the rumored Ukraine whistleblower despite disclosure of a name on social media and the Real Clear Investigations website. From The Washington Post.  The mainstream media’s silence is puzzling to Tom Kuntz, the editor of Real Clear...

11/6 update: Chris Cillizza at CNN comments on Rand Paul's strategy at a Monday Trump rally, "What Trump and Paul are trying to do is put the whistleblower at the end of this process. Unless the whistleblower reveals him or herself,...

Federal employees who face retaliation for blowing the whistle have an option for redress: the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB). The only problem is -- there's currently no one on the board and their hasn't been a quorum since 2016....

Dan Zak in The Washington Post muses on the role of whistleblowers: The whistleblower has gotten into the president’s head. In a Cabinet meeting Monday, Trump referenced whistleblowers 15 times. “You know, these whistleblowers, they have them like they’re angels,...

In a staff editorial entitled “Thanks Whistleblower, Your Work is Done,” The New York Times includes an annotated version of the original intelligence community whistleblower complaint. They note that “every piece of information that the public first learned from the...