Whistle-Blowers

In the first Trump Administration, “they didn’t say ‘Fuck you’ to the courts,” Erez Reuveni said.

A whistle-blower report and other documents suggest that Trump’s nominee to run the Pentagon was forced out of previous leadership positions for financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, and being repeatedly intoxicated on the job.

Susanna Fogel’s surprisingly jovial bio-pic about the whistle-blower Reality Winner fills a conventional format with patriotic outrage.

Interviews and e-mails with expedition leaders and employees reveal how OceanGate ignored desperate warnings from inside and outside the company. “It’s a lemon,” one wrote.

In “Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs,” Kerry Howley searches for hidden links among whistle-blowers, conspiracy theorists, targets of the surveillance state, and the rest of us.

More than a dozen of Peiter (Mudge) Zatko’s former colleagues have received offers of payment for information about him.

The company has weathered bad P.R. in the past. Will a Senate subcommittee hearing prove a bigger challenge?

Miles Taylor, the anonymous author of “A Warning,” only deserves credit for implementing cruel policies.

From The New Yorker’s archive: a selection of pieces about the crucial role that whistle-blowers have played in 2019.

“It’s time for people in the witness-protection program to put up or shut up,” one G.O.P. senator said.

The President’s rage against his nemesis the whistle-blower is, in part, a way to intimidate future whistle-blowers. It also serves to assert the central rule of Trumpism—that no one can oppose him.

How a whistle-blower exposed Harvey Weinstein’s attempts to suppress allegations of sexual assault and harassment.

A whistle-blower often speaks out with the aim of halting some wrongdoing, but a leaker’s motives are generally self-serving.

“The President of the United States may be willing to violate the Constitution to get reëlected,” the congressman from Staten Island said. “I will not.”

The country’s new leader saw an Oval Office meeting as a potent signal to voters, and to Vladimir Putin.

Both the whistle-blower and the inspector general learned of potential abuse and reported it. Both appear to have followed the law. The system is working.

The document is a masterpiece of precise bureaucratic prose, laying out a forceful narrative in its allegations against President Trump.

The President presses the Indian Prime Minister for dirt on Elizabeth Warren.

If Volodymyr Zelensky so desires, he has the ability to seriously damage Trump’s Presidency with a few choice disclosures.

An expert on national-security law discusses the legal issues involved in the Administration’s refusal to hand over the substance of the complaint to Congress.