The Whistleblowers

Dec 17, 2022 06:32 Whistleblowers in jail Viktor Bout was held in top-level American prisons for 14 years before his exchange for American WNBA player Brittney Griner. During some of that time he was held in America's infamous CMU, or Communications Management Unit. On this episode of the Whistleblowers, John Kiriakou sits down with Dana Gottesfeld, wife of Marty Gottesfeld, another prisoner held...

Dec 24, 2022 06:26 Stephen Friend blows the whistle on the FBI In this episode of the Whistleblowers, John Kiriakou speaks to Stephen Friend, an FBI agent who recently blew the whistle on an increasingly politicized FBI. For his trouble, the 12-year FBI veteran and member of the FBI’s Special Weapons and Tactics Team was stripped of his gun and badge and escorted out of the building. He tells us w...

Nov 26, 2022 06:16 Africa Facebook / Apartheid Not only are there brave whistleblowers calling out government and corporate malfeasance, but they're doing so at great personal risk. On this episode of The Whistleblowers, John Kiriakou speaks with Ari Danicas, a research fellow at Blueprint for Free Speech and a fellow whistleblower from South Africa who literally put his life on the line to report...

Dec 3, 2022 06:20 The billion dollar man On this week’s episode of The Whistleblowers, John Kiriakou wants to tell you about a banking whistleblower who has had a greater impact on the international financial system than anybody else in the world. Bradley Birkenfeld was a longtime banker and seasoned financial expert for some of the biggest and most important banks in Switzerland. That is, until h...

Nov 19, 2022 06:11 Abbot Baby Formula Plant Back in October 2021, an Abbott employee spoke out to the FDA, saying the plant's sanitary practices were not safe. Nothing happened until two babies died, shutting down the plant in February. This led to a major baby formula shortage as 80% of the specialty formula in the US is created by this Abbott plant. On this episode of the Whistleblowers John Kir...

Nov 12, 2022 06:34 Ukrainian Biolab Funding The Biden administration has passed a $40 billion aid package for Ukraine. Buried within the bill is an additional $50 million appropriated for the Department of Defense for “Research, Development, Test and Evaluation.” Why is the Department of Defense spending $50 million on research in an active war zone? On this episode of the Whistleblowers, we take...