MSPB Watch received a request to list books about the whistleblowing process, to help new and potential truth-tellers know what to expect. This seems like a good opportunity to survey the public, to find out what’s worth checking out.
For me, I would have to go with:
- The Whistleblower’s Handbook, by Stephen Kohn, esq. of the National Whistleblowers Center
- Classified Woman, by Sibel Edmonds, FBI whistleblower
- Whistleblowers: Broken Lives and Organizational Power, by Professor C. Fred Alford, University of Maryland
What’s on your reading list?
Photo courtesy of the U.S. Navy.
There is no book and no information that will help to protect whistleblowers. There is no such protection and all of us have evidence to prove it – our own case.
Whistleblowers should know that choosing to report corruption and criminal activity in government is, in many cases, devastation beyond compare.
While these books may be “worth reading,” the information they offer may be interpreted as “having a chance” or false hope, because whistleblowers are operating within the law.
The law, in plain black and white language means nothing. Refusing to engage in official corruption and government criminal activity is career suicide.
Let’s remember the words of the Defense Contract Management Agency Ethics & Personnel Attorney, John Moroney, when I asked if he would do anything about the retaliatory frame up and eventual termination of an EEO complainant and gave him clear and convincing evidence to prove it. He said: ”I tried being an ethics attorney with Navy. I had to leave.”
Let’s also remember the words of the DCMA’s Chief of Staff, Lt. Col. William Donaldson who said, “the trouble with Kinan is that he believes everything he reads.” And when I pointed out that it was his responsibility to support the DCMA’s programs, his rhetorical question: ”Where do you hide a pink elephant?” He answered: ”In a pink elephant graveyard.”
Please post this so that all will know they will not keep their government job if they choose to follow the law.
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I would not censor you, but I respectfully disagree with you on this. There is such a thing as rule of law.