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- noun Plural form of
whistleblower .
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The future for whistleblowers is therefore very poor if they choose to be in the lest bit open about these things.
Archive 2007-11-04 2007
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The future for whistleblowers is therefore very poor if they choose to be in the lest bit open about these things.
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How many more federal government whistleblowers is it going to take for you to quit lying to yourselves.
Think Progress » Embedded TIME Reporter: Bush Lied In Speech Yesterday About Iraqi Security Forces 2005
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Nope, he hates the brave Americans -- aka "whistleblowers" -- who risk everything to expose these problems.
10/04/2004 2004
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An investigation into allegations by unidentified "whistleblowers" - whom the suit claims were recruited by Dr. Darin Haug, dean of KCUMB's College of Medicine and an opponent of Pletz's proposal for dual accreditation - was prejudiced due to several conflicts of interest and had a predetermined outcome, the suit alleges.
Los Angeles Business News - Local Los Angeles News | Los Angeles Business from bizjournals 2010
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Assange pointed out that the 2008 report specifically uses the term "whistleblowers" -- that is, people who leak classified information to expose an injustice -- in identifying targets to investigate and prosecute.
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The Guardian's source for these is Wikileaks, the website which specialises in publishing untraceable material from whistleblowers, which is simultaneously publishing raw material from the logs.
Afghanistan war logs: Story behind biggest leak in intelligence history 2010
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Bush has also, for some time now, been terminating large numbers of employees in the federal government, people known as whistleblowers, people suspected of disloyalty.
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Bush Firing Disloyal Federal Employees yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Bush Firing Disloyal Federal Employees'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Bush has, for some time now, been terminating large numbers of employees in the federal government, people known as whistleblowers, people suspected of disloyalty.'
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And one controversial piece of legislation that they rejected to protect, what are called whistleblowers, people who come forward and tell police there's something suspicious going on.
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