Whistleblowing/Business for courageous
people
RT: What
do you think about the situation with whistleblowers?
Annie Machon: I
think we’ve had over the last few years a number of amazingly brave
whistleblowers come forward. And I think it’s been good because of the degree
of criminality they have been exposing for the public good, and also to raise
the profile of the concept of whistleblowing, how important it is within
functioning democracies to have the regulations of last resort exposing
wrongdoing. I suppose the downside is that America particularly and also the UK
seem to be waging a war on whistleblowers. So rather than taking their
evidence, investigating allegations of criminality, and seeing that justice is
done what they are trying to is incarcerate the whistleblowers, persecute them
rather than protect them. And it would be nice to be able to see 2015 as the
year when they are given proper legal protection and their disclosures are
properly investigated.
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