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There should be a law that gives immunity to whistleblowers. We can already, to some extent, make it more difficult to discriminate based on sex or color or pre
by yason 12y ago
There should be a law that gives immunity to whistleblowers. We can already, to some extent, make it more difficult to discriminate based on sex or color or pregnancy -- a similar thing would be good for whistleblowers.
Of course, there are ways and there are ways, but in the general case if organisations knew that the matter of things will still be observed two years after blowing the whistle and that it can't look bad, there would be an incentive to treat these people right.
- yeukhon 12y agoThere should be an independent committee outside of the military handling complaints that have been ignored (you need to provide evidences you've done all you could to raise the issue to your superiors.) I wonder if there is one right now.
- chrissnell 12y agoThere is. There are Inspectors General (IG) at many levels in the armed forces and in the Department of Defense as a whole. Outside of this, there is your congressman which it sounds like Capt. Wilson went to. Starting a "congressional", as they're called, is like pulling the fire alarm in an office building with 15,000 people in it: it had better be a real fire and not just a lunch that smoked up the break room microwave.
- spiritplumber 12y agoA problem that can incapacitate the pilot of a billion-dollar fighter jet seems like it belongs in the "real fire" category.
- fnordfnordfnord 12y agoLooks like the IG found the AF's handling of the same problem lacking with WRT the Haney crash in 2010. http://www.airforcetimes.com/article/20130211/NEWS/302110315/DoD-IG-slams-AF-investigation-F-22-crash http://www.airforcetimes.com/article/20130211/NEWS/302110315...
- neurotech1 12y agoDoD Inspector General is independent of the chain of command. http://www.dodig.mil/ http://www.dodig.mil/