[gondramB]

>>Besides, after basically knifing everyone else at your company in the back (whether it was justified or not), continuing to work there is usually not a good idea. When you go public, your career is over at wherever you work whether you want it to be or not.<<

We want and need government officials to be able to expose things like trumped up warrants or using the IRS to go after political enemies or the ATF trampling rights..its in our best interest.

[Spktyr]

You've never been a whistleblower, obviously. I have; and you *really* shouldn't continue to work for the same company after you do so.

[Locomotive Breath]

We want and need government officials to be able to expose things like trumped up warrants or using the IRS to go after political enemies or the ATF trampling rights..its in our best interest.

I don't know about state government but the Feds have an official whistleblower procedure to follow in circumstances like this. Taking it to the press is not part of the procedure.

I don't want to register to read the NYT article. Something that's not clear to me is whether the memo was written internally and then leaked to the press by a third party or whether the whistleblower talked to the press directly.