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11 Jun, 2013

‘More young whistleblowers 2.0 to seek justice through maximum exposure’ — RT Op-Edge

Well, often people who do blow the whistle do try to deal with it in house. I mean certainly we did. You go to your boss and you say “this is wrong”, you say “we should learn from mistakes made” or whatever it is. And they tell you just to shut up, not rock the boat and just follow orders. And that’s our major problem.

So, I can imagine – what I did was 15 years ago – but now particularly we are looking into a situation where intelligence agencies are being asked to spy on fellow citizens, or to draw up CIA drone kill list, or to kidnap and torture people, terrorist suspects.

And we have a situation now where young people are going to be coming into this and thinking: “Is this right? Should we be doing this to our fellow human beings? And if it is not right what can we do?” Raise it with the boss? That goes nowhere, you are told to shut up.

The only other way in this Internet age, I think, for it to go public and get the maximum exposure. To get justice through that transparency but also to provide a certain degree of safety and protection for yourself as well while you are doing it and that’s what I think is going on here. And it’s been very well done.

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