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Publisher
Disinformation
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (66 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Highlights four cases where whistleblowers noticed government wrongdoing and took to the media to expose the fraud and abuse. It exposes the surprisingly worsening and threatening reality for whistleblowers and the press. Includes interviews with whistleblowers Michael DeKort, Thomas Drake, Franz Gayland Thomas Tamm and award-winning journalists like David Carr, Lucy Dalglish, Glenn Greenwald, Seymour Hersh, Michael Isikoff, Bill Keller, Eric Lipton,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Nick Heller, private spy, exposes secrets that powerful people would rather keep hidden. At the funeral of his good friend Sean, an army buddy who once saved Nick's life and had struggled with opioid addiction since returning wounded from war, a stranger approaches Nick with a job. The woman is a member of the Kimball family, whose immense fortune was built on opiates. Now she wants to become a whistleblower, exposing evidence that Kimball Pharmaceutical...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Victor Holland came flying out of the night, he ran straight into the path of Catherine Weaver's car. Having uncovered a terrifying secret that leads all the way to Washington, Victor is running for his life - and from the men who will go to any lengths to silence him. Though Victor's story sounds like the ravings of a mad-man, the haunted look in his eyes - and the bullet hole in his shoulder - tell Cathy a different story. As each hour brings...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An analysis of how "cypherpunk" innovators of the digital generation are safeguarding individual anonymity while sharing institutional secrets for public use chronicles the activities of such controversial figures as Julian Assange and Daniel Domscheit-Berg.
Publisher
Summit Entertainment/Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public's adulation with their Robin Hood-style magic spectacles, The Four Horsemen resurface for a comeback performance in hopes of exposing the unethical practices of a tech magnate. The man behind their vanishing act is none other than Walter Mabry, a tech prodigy who threatens the Horsemen into pulling off their most impossible heist yet.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Investigative reporter for The Guardian and bestselling author Glenn Greenwald, provides an in-depth look into the NSA scandal that has triggered a national debate over national security and information privacy. With further revelations from documents entrusted to Glenn Greenwald by Edward Snowden himself, this book explores the extraordinary cooperation between private industry and the NSA, and the far-reaching consequences of the government's surveillance...
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Nebraska police officer and divorced mother of three Kathryn Bolkovac saw a recruiting announcement for private military contractor DynCorp International, she applied and was hired. Good money, world travel, and the chance to help rebuild a war-torn country sounded like the perfect job. Bolkovac was shipped out to Bosnia, where DynCorp had been contracted to support the UN peacekeeping mission. She was assigned as a human rights investigator,...
10) Targeted
Author
Series
Deadly Ops volume 1
Publisher
Signet Eclipse
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Former Marine sniper and current NSA agent Jack Stone has a new face to go with his new identity. But he still has the same tortured memories which include the woman he let get away years ago, when they were teenagers. Now his new assignment in Miami will put him so close to the woman he has never been able to forget, he could reach out and touch her if only she weren't under suspicion. When Sophie Moreno uncovers evidence linking the medical supply...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xv, 272 pages)
Language
English
Description
"The book will discuss business protection strategies and best practices in dealing with whistleblowers, as well as the GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and other high profile whistleblower cases. The book is expected to appeal to Board members, C-Suite executives, corporate compliance personnel, attorneys for whistleblowers and defense attorneys as well as all potential employee whistleblowers. The book emphasizes the disincentives to whistleblowing, and...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Choose the best speak-up arrangements for your organisation The last five years have seen dramatic and fundamental changes in whistleblower procedures for organisations. Prompted by a spate of important public disclosures, organizations are now mandated by law to implement effective arrangements enabling employees to speak up about perceived wrongdoing. Currently few resources exist to help with this. To help fill the gap, The Whistleblowing Guide...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Father Herman Hoffman, a gifted and innocent young priest who, during his first parish appointment, gets swept up in the "Crisis" after witnessing child abuse in the parish rectory. When he reports the abuse, he is rebuffed by the archbishop and, vilified for denouncing a priest who has been "cleared" by the police, learns the harsh fate of the whistleblower in the contemporary Catholic Church. Later, forced to testify in a court hearing, Father Hoffman...
16) The insider
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 158 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When former executive Jeffrey Wigand is fired by his employer, one of the largest tobacco companies in America, Wigand agrees to become a paid consultant for a story by veteran 60 minutes producer Lowell Bergman, regarding alleged unethical practices within the tobacco industry. But what begins as a temporary alliance leads to a lengthy battle for both men to save their reputations and more.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a radical band of teen activists [claims] that Alix's powerful father covers up wrongdoing by corporations that knowingly allow innocent victims to die in order to make enormous profits from unsafe products, she must decide if she will blow the whistle on his misdeeds"--
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
xiii, 402 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A former WorldCom employee chronicles her life from her Mississippi upbringing to a high-level position at WorldCom, discussing the discovery of fraud in her company's dealings and the decision-making process that led her to become a whistleblower.
Author
Series
Dr. Harry Kent novels volume 2
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a suspended whistle blower at a hospital is found dead in an apparent suicide, medical examiner Dr. Harry Kent and detective Frankie Noble discover that she was actually murdered and try to unlock the secrets that led to her death.
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