Whistleblowing is relevant in the UK now more than ever, as the recent stream of high profile cover-ups and the relentless clamp downs on truth tellers has shown.
Obama has opposed even the blandest form of investigation, a so-called truth commission, and has shown himself willing to confront this kind of populist anger.
Indeed, as South Africa's experience has shown, truth commissions can work under the right circumstances.
"The good news is that the top echelon has again been caught but the truth is that ETA has shown that it still has a reservoir of people to fill such a gap," said Oscar Elían an ETA specialist and analyst at the Strategic Studies Group, a research group based in Madrid.
But recent American history has shown the truth to be closer to the opposite.
The crisis has shown the truth in this allegation, most conspicuously in Indonesia.
Throughout, Mr Putin has shown that truth and the law are whatever happens to suit him at the time.Mr Putin has taken to arguing that Russian values are fundamentally at odds with Western liberal ones.
France's Nicolas Sarkozy, as holder of the EU presidency, may be preening himself over the new ceasefire deal he struck with Russia's Dmitry Medvedev on September 8th, but in truth the war with Georgia has shown up the EU's vacillation.
2014 has shown us the truth about the contempt for women underlying Kenny's new legislation.
The truth is that no Romanian politician has shown the courage and skill to champion realizable, concrete reform steps.
Even worse, Restall has shown how to plausibly reason from (Entailment-T) to "truth-maker monism": the doctrine that every truth-maker makes every truth true (whether necessary or contingent).
