Whistleblowers

Introduction: Thomas Andrew Drake, a man who was a former senior executive of U.S. NSA (National Security Agency), a decorated United States Air Force And Navy veteran and a whistleblower. In 2010, Thomas Andrew Drake was alleged with mishandling of documents, rarest of the Espionage act in the history of United States. Defenders of Drake claim that he was instead being prosecuted for challenging the trailblazer project. In 2001, exactly on the day of 9/11 he was appointed as the Signals Intelligence

Introduction Part of the daily routine during childhood is learning the difference between right and wrong, and a child’s behavior will change as they grow older, which proves they understand being dishonest or lying is wrong and there will be consequences to pay. Regardless of a person’s surroundings, they should never put their integrity in jeopardy, however, more often than not greed prevails as the winner. Most people do not accept a position within an organization looking to become rich,

According to Seldadyo and Haan there are both positive and negative effects of religion on corruption. Such results can be explained by diversity of religions and their moralities. Since this issue requires deeper estimations, it is difficult to make conclusion for that determinant. However Pleskov, Subarna and Zadeh in their article “Religion as a Determinant of Corruption Evidence from OPEC and OECD countries” examines the role of religion in the corruption, and find out that this factor can not

On June 2, 2015, AP claims that her co-worker (Whistleblower) and Carol Roane, Assistant Director, identified as the Responding Management Official (RMO), are purposely creating a hostile work environment so that she (AP) will resign her position. AP claims she has been investigated four (4) times since June of 2014, although, the allegations were unfounded. Yet they continue to allow the whistle blower employee (unidentified) to threaten managers without any disciplinary actions. AP claims

Question 4 1. The ethical issues outlined in this case are whether Spc. Darby’s whistle-blowing decision was correct and if Spc. Sivits’s claims of obedience and rule following are sufficient for his decision to not blow the whistle. 2. The fear of repercussions of disobeying military orders should not be an allowable excuse for not whistle-blowing. From the utilitarian perspective actions are right insofar as they promote happiness and wrong as they bring the reverse of happiness: pain (Mill, 1910

A Government acting in good faith should never bring criminal proceedings against anyone who reveals information about human rights abuses within its jurisdiction. There is therefore a sacred responsibility placed on governments to protect whistleblowers as they play an important role, for example: a) Smedley Butler who exposed the McCormack-Dickstein Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives that business leaders had plotted a fascist coup d'état against the Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration

In 2013, Edward Snowden, former technical contractor for the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), released thousands of confidential documents to The Guardian. Now considered the biggest government information leak in history, these documents contained classified information regarding widespread government wiretappings, including the wiretapping of more than 35 world leaders and allies (“Right of Privacy Timeline”). With so many people involved and the rising Computer Age, the topic of whistle-blowing

lot of factors which could include organizational structure, high level of corruption, Improper channeling of information, time wastage, lack of proper rules concerning whistle blowers, etc. These and many more can account for the treatment of whistleblowers in the society. If there is proper planning, proper rules, low level of corruption etc in an organization or society, whistle blowers would be treated right in the society and wouldn’t be stigmatized as in the case

Jesselyn Radack also states that “the 1917 law, enacted shortly after the U.S. entered World War I, was intended to apply to spies, not modern-day whistleblowers accused of mishandling allegedly classified information. The law was written 35 years before the word "classification" entered the government's lexicon” (Radack, 2014). This illustrates that the security concerns of 1917 are drastically different

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