Ethical obligations. Building an ethical framework ; I had to do it / What motivates a whistleblower? / What really drives a whistleblower like Edward Snowden? / Opting to blow the whistle or choosing to walk away / Survey shows increase in whistleblowers reporting misconduct, but in retaliation as well / The whistle-blower's quandary / Why you should applaud dissent, not fire it / The banality of systemic evil / Whistleblowing is coming soon to a private-sector company near you / Tobacco whistleblower talks cigarette policies / Confronting perpetrators. Truth and consequences ; Don't shoot the messenger / Whistleblowers, beware: most claims end in disappointment, despair / Why intelligence whistleblowers can't use internal channels / Why most financial whistle-blowers go unheard / Whistleblowers score a big payday: three individuals, one firm to receive $170 million in Bank of America probe / Too big to jail? / Hedge fund kept U.S. inquiry quiet / The man who blew the whistle / A whistle-blower spurs self-scrutiny in college sports / Whistleblowers need encouragement, not roadblocks / Reprisals and the law. The backlash ; Message from the Chief of the Office of the Whistleblower / Why is Obama bashing a whistleblower law he already signed? / FBI revamping whistleblower rules / Patriot games: the odds are stacked against whistleblower Snowden / 35 years for Manning, and time for better whistleblowing laws / G20 still has a way to go with whistleblower protections / After the whistle: revealers of government secrets share how their lives have changed / The fraud behind a $14 million whistleblower award / One whistleblower gets $30m in the bank, but others count the personal cost / The next battleground in the war on whistleblowers / Air marshal whistleblower wins 7-2 Supreme Court victory / VA destroyed records, punished whistleblower in patient death, complaint alleges / Former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling convicted in leak case / Double standard for leaking endangers the nation / Security in democracy. Seeing both sides. Kiriakou and Stuxnet: the danger of the still-escalating Obama whistleblower war / On whistleblowers and government threats of investigation / Demonizing Edward Snowden: which side are you on? / Edward Snowden is no hero / The Snowden principle / Report puts Snowden-like leaks as the no. 2 threat to U.S. security / Manning's convictions and his victory / A message from Edward Snowden, one year later / Sources of discomfort: national security reporting in the age of leak hunts / Intelligence security initiatives have chilling effect on federal whistleblowers, critics say / Supreme Court weights whistleblower protections