Nearly 100,000 Pentagon Whistleblower Complaints Have Been Silenced

[the other mike]

I don’t know if I’d have the nerve to be a whistleblower. I’d like to think I would. We all like to think we would, just like we all like to think we could catch the game-winning touchdown, triumph on “America’s Got Talent,” and fold a fitted sheet quickly and without cursing.

But to blow the whistle on a huge organization with a lot of power, likely drawing that power to come crashing down on your head—that takes some serious spine-age. Now, imagine the organization you’re calling out is arguably the largest, most powerful, most secretive and most violent organization on planet Earth. I’m speaking, of course, of the U.S. Department of Defense.

Yet thousands, even tens of thousands, of people have taken that step over the past five years. (More on this in a moment.)
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Nearly 100,000 Pentagon Whistleblower Complaints Have Been Silenced

Here is the author of the article, Lee Camp.

 

[whitehall]

Complaints are now considered "whistleblowers"? Was everyone in the federal government happy with the way it was running before Trump was elected?

 

[MarathonMike]

Power corrupts and The Pentagon is a perfect example. Along with the FBI and CIA, the Pentagon also needs a real housecleaning.