Rule 21: Be Prepared for the Lid to Blow
Whistleblowers Need to be Prepared
“Our President has gone on a rampage about news leaks in Watergate. He told the appropriate people, ‘go to any length to stop them’…Internal investigations, plus he wants to use the courts…Nixon was wild, shouting and hollering that ‘we can’t have it and we’re going to stop it, I don’t care how much it costs…”
- Aaron Kesselheim, et al., “Whistle-Blowers’ Experiences in Fraud Litigation against Pharmaceutical Companies,” New England Journal of Medicine (2010) (“Special Report”).
- Ernesto Reuben and Matt Stephenson, “Nobody likes a rat: On the willingness to report lies and the consequences thereof,” 93 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 384 (Sept. 2013).
- Charles S. Clarke, “Whistleblowers,” 7 The CQ Researcher 1059.
- Peter Katel, “Protecting Whistleblowers,” 16 The CQ Researcher 265.
- Myron Glazer and Penina Glazer, The Whistleblowers: Exposing Corruption in Government Industry (New York: Basic Books, 1989) (outlines contributions of whistleblowers in exposing police corruption, nuclear safety hazards, defense contracting and the environment)