need to add title here

Web Extra: What Happens Next

December 20, 2009 5:15 PM

Former DHL worker Mike O'Machearley is hopeful but realistic

Add a Comment
by the9th January 11, 2010 10:05 AM EST
I would be interesting to have a follow-up concerning the Justice Department to find out in how many cases it has prosecuted whistle-blowers for crimes arising out of the same set of facts about which the whistle has been blown.

I believe the dude who blew the whistle on Archer Daniels Midland's price-fixing conspiracy around lysine was also prosecuted (though he apparently also embezzled a few million bucks on the side.

But what about other cases? Any more whistles blown on Xe or Blackwater? Halliburton? Dyncorp? Brown Kelloggs Flakes & Roots (that'd be the Brown & Root of Vietnam infamy, plus Kellogg's flakiness). Prosecutions of L. Stupido Paul Bremer Aye Aye Aye? Any word on where the $2.4 Trillion Rumsfeld said the Pentagon couldn't account for on 9/10/2001 went? The FBI whistleblowers concerning 9/11/2001? What's happened to them (the translator and the special agent out in the boonies of Central America--the Heartland, not the Banana, Hash & Cocaine Republics?

The whistleblower about the National Spy Agency (NSA) "splitter boxes" now affixed to virtually all of the fiber optic trunk lines of our US Telcos? Wassup widat story?

Spare us the dross of "politics" and "Sarah Palin"--let's hear about the stuff that's killing this American Republic, dudes. We don't have time to waste on the crud, who schlepped with whom--unless they're schlepping trillions of bucks of taxpayer dollars out of the country, into their pockets, etc.'
fwiw.

I think we need a nice refresher piece on whistle-blowing
Reply to this comment
Recent Segments

60MinutesOverTime

60 Minutes Overtime is a weekly web show that begins where the weekly television broadcast ends
  • Building You a Better Morning

  • CBS This Morning

    "CBS This Morning," anchored by Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Erica Hill, airs weekdays from 7 to 9 a.m. ET and at the same time in other time zones.
    Learn more...