Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who reveals wrongdoing within an organization to the public or to those in positions of authority.
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- noun Alternative form of
whistle-blower .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it
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Examples
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Army intelligence analyst was charged with providing a classified video to WikiLeaks, an anti-war organization that runs what it describes as a whistleblower Web site.
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Army intelligence analyst was charged with providing a classified video to WikiLeaks, an anti-war organization that runs what it describes as a whistleblower website.
FOXNews.com foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2010
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Army intelligence analyst was charged with providing a classified video to WikiLeaks, an anti-war organization that runs what it describes as a whistleblower website.
FOXNews.com foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2010
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The man, an executive/bio-chemist and inevitable whistleblower, is displayed before the audience as a hapless buffoon who manages to delay his own professional demise within his company, ADM, by constructing a house of cards propped up by one astonishing deceit after another.
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Earlier this year, an Army intelligence analyst was charged with providing a classified video to WikiLeaks, an anti-war organization that runs what it describes as a whistleblower Web site.
Post-WikiLeaks, Army Now Requires Troops To Report Suspected Leaks AP 2010
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Earlier this year, an Army intelligence analyst was charged with providing a classified video to WikiLeaks, an anti-war organization that runs what it describes as a whistleblower Web site.
Post-WikiLeaks, Army Now Requires Troops To Report Suspected Leaks AP 2010
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Yet the principle, that confidential sources must be protected, must apply in all cases: indeed, one person ` s whistleblower is another ` s snitch.
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Judy Millier is “protecting” no one, in whistleblower sense.
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In other words, they say, the outing of a covert CIA agent in a time of war to punish a whistleblower is just everyday “politics” — nothing out of the ordinary, certainly nothing criminal.
Think Progress » Fox News Pushing “Criminalization of Politics” Talking Point 2005
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The family of the Abu Ghraib whistleblower is living in protective custody because they're getting death threats.
08/18/2004 2004
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