A Q&A with Fred Whitehurst, the first FBI whistleblower to go public

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Whitehurst: Because people are terrified. They're absolutely terrified. There's a culture of fear. Coleen Rowley spoke of it. But actually those were Jane Turner's original words. As I wrote to the Inspector General, I'm working with the bravest people I've ever worked with, and they're absolutely terrified out of their wits. Absolute terror. That building is close, uptight--it's like something out of an old movie about the Soviet Union. Everybody's terrified to breathe in and out if they aren't breathing in and out at the same time as the old man.

Everybody right now is covering, covering, covering.

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1. link?

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2. fixed it

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3. appreciate it, great read!

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4. kick

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5. That guy is a hard worker and very ethical. Ethical hard workers aren't

wanted to work there, it appears. Folks who won't try to fix anything or jepordize anyone's job *are* wanted there.

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6. Introduction: The Making of a Whistleblower

By Steve Perry

Introduction: The Making of a Whistleblower

WHEN JANE TURNER LEFT THE BUILDING ON HER last day of active duty at the FBI--November 21, 2002--several of her colleagues turned out for the occasion. It was the end of a distinguished 24-year career in which Turner went places that few, if any, women in the Bureau had gone before her: criminal psych profiler, New York organized crime squad member, senior resident agent in Indian country. Some fellow agents were on hand for her big day, she recalls, along with members of the clerical staff.

And the special agent in charge, the boss of the Minneapolis FBI office--Deborah Strebel Pierce, the division's first female SAC--she was there, too. In fact, Pierce's attendance was obligatory. As SAC, she held the responsibility of removing from the premises any agent who was being terminated.

For more than four years, Turner had waged a quiet and increasingly isolated battle to address what she saw as troubles at the FBI, ranging from job discrimination toward female agents to malfeasance in the handling of numerous cases. She had taken her complaints, and the corresponding evidence, up the chain of command all the way to then-Director Louis Freeh's office. In response, claims Turner, the Bureau waged a campaign to undermine her reputation, suppress evidence of its own wrongdoing, and drive her out.

When Turner was escorted to the parking garage on that last day to remove any personal items from her Bureau car, the last step prior to her being turned out on the street, she found a number of co-workers milling around the area, apparently tipped to the chance to see Jane Turner get hers at last.
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7. Things ain't been going so well for the Feds since Bob Hanssen

feels like there's a whole lot of unfinished biz left over.