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News -02-27-06 Army Whistleblower Demoted (CBS News) "A high-ranking Army Corps of Engineers official who publicly criticized the Pentagon's decision to award Halliburton Co. a no-bid contract for work in Iraq has been demoted, officials said Monday." " 'The failure to abide by prior commitments and the circumstances surrounding Ms. Greenhouse's removal are the hallmark of illegal retaliation,' her attorney, Michael D. Kohn, wrote in the letter to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld." " 'Her removal will send a message to all concerned that if they dare stand up to corrupting influences within the Army contracting world their careers will be destroyed,' he added." 02-06 -06-16-06 Whistleblowers Report on September 11 Thefts (CBS News) "Once-secret documents obtained by The Associated Press detail how the company, Kieger Enterprises of Lino Lakes, Minn., went unpunished for the Sept. 11 thefts after the government discovered FBI agents and other government officials had stolen artifacts from New York's ground zero." "As a result, most Americans were kept in the dark about a major fraud involving their donated goods even as new requests for charity emerged with disasters like Hurricane Katrina. And Christopherson and L'Allier were left disillusioned." 06-06 Papers Fighting Big Tobacco (CBS News) "Jeffrey Wigand was the maverick insider who - at what he considered was great personal risk to himself and his family - blew the whistle on big tobacco." "Back in 1995, he exposed the lies we'd all been told for decades about cigarettes: about their capacity to addict us, about their capacity to kill us." "Since then, he's literally changed the air we breathe. But, in an interview with Correspondent Mike Wallace 10 years ago, Wigand became the first major tobacco insider to reveal that the cigarette companies were consciously trying to get us hooked on nicotine." 1-05 Persons of the Year (Time.com - Lacayo and Ripley) Describes the heroism of Cynthia Cooper, Coleen Rowley, and Sherron Watkins. They are sometimes called "whistleblowers" because they tried to help correct something very wrong within their own organizations by reporting the problems to their top authorities. "They took huge professional and personal risks to blow the whistle on what went wrong at WorldCom, Enron and the FBI—and in so doing helped remind us what American courage and American values are all about." "Very quickly it became clear that none of them are rebels in the usual sense. The truest of true believers is more like it, ever faithful to the idea that where they worked was a place that served the wider world in some important way. But sometimes it's the keepers of the flame who feel most compelled to set their imperfect temple to the torch. When headquarters didn't live up to its mission, they took it to heart." Visitors sometimes call it whistle blowers 1-03 Whistleblower Protection (Project on Government Oversight) Allows whistleblowers to help stop corruption without necessarily having to be publicly exposed. Covers only federal level corruption but includes corporations serving the federal government. Visitors sometimes call it whistle blowers. 7-02 Whistleblower Protection (WhistleBlowers.org) Provides a summary of federal protections for whistleblowers. No single, comprehensive federal law covers whistle blowers. Visitors sometimes call it whistle blowers. 7-02 Whistleblowers at Los Alamos Rehired (CBS News) "Glenn Walp and Steve Doran were fired in November after they reported on $2.7 million in missing computers and property and the misuse of lab-issued charge cards — including one employee who tried to use a lab charge card to buy a souped-up Ford Mustang." "Friedman said the reasons given for the firing 'do not withstand scrutiny,' and the timing was suspect." "Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham also expressed concern about the firings, and last week the university hired the two men to advise the university's investigation of Los Alamos." Visitors sometimes call it whistle blowers 1-03

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