The military under the Obama administration has displayed a desire to over-prosecute whistleblowing with life-in-prison charges including espionage and "aiding the enemy", a disturbing decision which is no doubt intended to set an example.
The report concluded that factors including a culture within the BBC that made it difficult to complain to management, or "rock the boat", and an atmosphere of fear over repercussions for whistleblowing meant official complaints were never made.
As for whistleblowing, over the last quarter-century numerous mechanisms for revealing waste, fraud and abuse have been created, like the proliferation of strengthened inspectors general and anonymous hot lines and the greatly enhanced roles of Congressional investigatory subcommittees and the General Accounting Office.
Wilson was torn on the controversy over Wikileaks, a whistleblowing website that has published classified material but brought to light troubling aspects of the Iraq war.
He was detained for a story he wrote in 2010, based on (literally) a suitcase of military documents, handed over to him by a whistleblowing officer, which implicated senior commanders in an attempted coup d'état, codenamed Sledgehammer.
Ofsted has been accused of a staging a "cover-up" by a whistleblowing former employee over its handling of the "Baby P" scandal.
WikiLeaks and Julian Assange may have found their donation streams severely squeezed by PayPal, Mastercard, Visa and the Swiss post office over the last week, but the whistleblowing website is still accepting donations through more traditional channels.
Ecuador has confirmed that it has temporarily cut off internet access in its embassy in London to Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblowing site WikiLeaks, over fears that he was using it to interfere in the US presidential election.
The whistleblowing website Wikileaks published the messages over a 24-hour period beginning on Tuesday at dawn, releasing them in batches in chronological order as if in real time.
