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1. Ethical obligations : Building an ethical framework ; I had to do it / David Morgan ; What motivates a whistleblower? / Meredith Melnick ; What really drives a whistleblower like Edward Snowden? / Maggie Severns ; Opting to blow the whistle or choosing to walk away / Alina Tugend ; Survey shows increase in whistleblowers reporting misconduct, but in retaliation as well / Hannah Johnson ; The whistle-blower's quandary / Adam Waytz, James Dungan, and Liane Young ; Why you should applaud dissent, not fire it / Jeremy Quittner ; The banality of systemic evil / Peter Ludlow ; Whistleblowing is coming soon to a private-sector company near you / Shel Holtz ; Tobacco whistleblower talks cigarette policies / Carly Noah -- 2. Confronting perpetrators : Truth and consequences ; Don't shoot the messenger / Vanessa Baird ; Whistleblowers, beware: most claims end in disappointment, despair / Ben Hallman ; Why intelligence whistleblowers can't use internal channels / Conor Friedersdorf ; Why most financial whistle-blowers go unheard / Kate Kenny ; Whistleblowers score a big payday: three individuals, one firm to receive $170 million in Bank of America probe / Christina Rexrode and Timothy W. Martin ; Too big to jail? / Michael G. Winston ; Hedge fund kept U.S. inquiry quiet / Gretchen Morgenson ; The man who blew the whistle / Joe Nocera ; A whistle-blower spurs self-scrutiny in college sports / Brad Wolverton ; Whistleblowers need encouragement, not roadblocks / Curtis C. Verschoor -- 3. Reprisals and the law : The backlash ; Message from the Chief of the Office of the Whistleblower / Sean X. McKessy ; Why is Obama bashing a whistleblower law he already signed? / Dana Liebelson ; FBI revamping whistleblower rules / Devlin Barrett ; Patriot games: the odds are stacked against whistleblower Snowden / Ashley Savage ; 35 years for Manning, and time for better whistleblowing laws / Ashley Savage ; G20 still has a way to go with whistleblower protections / Suelette Dreyfus ; After the whistle: revealers of government secrets share how their lives have changed / Emily Wax ; The fraud behind a $14 million whistleblower award / Jean Eaglesham ; One whistleblower gets $30m in the bank, but others count the personal cost / Jana Kasperkevic ; The next battleground in the war on whistleblowers / Peter van Buren ; Air marshal whistleblower wins 7-2 Supreme Court victory / Government Accountability Project ; VA destroyed records, punished whistleblower in patient death, complaint alleges / Jim McElhatton ; Former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling convicted in leak case / Matt Zapotosky ; Double standard for leaking endangers the nation / Linda Lewis -- 4. Security in democracy : Seeing both sides ; Kiriakou and Stuxnet: the danger of the still-escalating Obama whistleblower war / Glenn Greenwald ; On whistleblowers and government threats of investigation / Glenn Greenwald ; Demonizing Edward Snowden: which side are you on? / John Cassidy ; Edward Snowden is no hero / Jeffrey Toobin ; The Snowden principle / John Cusack ; Report puts Snowden-like leaks as the no. 2 threat to U.S. security / Ken Dilanian ; Manning's convictions and his victory / Amy Davidson ; A message from Edward Snowden, one year later / American Civil Liberties Union ; Sources of discomfort: national security reporting in the age of leak hunts / Noreen Malone ; Intelligence security initiatives have chilling effect on federal whistleblowers, critics say / Scott Higham ; Supreme Court weighs whistleblower protections / Jess Bravin.