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Intelligence whistleblowers often pay a severe price

  • Written by Jennifer M. Pacella, Assistant Professor of Business Law and Ethics, Indiana University
Blowing the whistle carries major risks.BlueSkyImage/Shutterstock.com

When President Donald Trump likened a whistleblower’s White House sources to spies and made a lightly veiled reference to execution, he highlighted a longstanding peril facing those who come forward to alert the public to governmental wrongdoing.

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