In a message dated 3/5/2008 4:22:33 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, george.herbert@gmail.com writes:
We should protect whistleblowers - much fraud and abuse in the world is revealed and addressed following such reports.
Even so, it's important to remember that if you throw the grenade out in public, it's going to explode and hurt people.
This has not evidently helped the project.>>> ------------------------------ I can't necessarily agree with this conclusion. Whistleblowers or alternatively grenade-throwers do have a place in a large organization. They ensure that things would should be transparent are so. Sometimes, when you lift the blanket you see things you wish you hadn't, don't care to, or shouldn't have. It's imho a price we have to pay, in order to get the kind of transparency we'd like.
Will Johnson
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