As a followup to an article I wrote a while back, To Whom Whistleblowing Is A Sin, Smithsonian Magazine wrote an article about Federal whisltleblowing worth sharing. An except:
“I did not take an oath to support and defend government illegalities, violations of the Constitution or turn a blind eye to massive fraud, waste and abuse,” Drake said in accepting the award, his first public comment on his case. (He declined to be interviewed for this article.) His oath to defend the Constitution, he said, “took precedence…otherwise I would have been complicit.”