May 13, 2023 06:09
Big oil and government bribes

Jonathan Taylor was working for a Dutch multinational oil company when he discovered evidence of bribes being offered to government officials in return for lucrative contracts. On this episode of the Whistleblowers, John Kiriakou talks with Taylor about how doing the right thing, and uncovering these crimes, completely upended his life.

May 10, 2023 06:39
Manipulating Google’s algorithms

In 2019, Zachary Vorhies, a senior engineer at Google, decided to release hundreds of pages of internal documents to Project Veritas. Vorhies collected the documents over the course of a year. The information he released revealed damning information about how Google’s search algorithms function. On this episode of The Whistleblowers, John Kiriakou speaks with Vorhies about how blowing the whistle on a corporate giant is dangerous and put his life at risk.

May 6, 2023 05:59
Bugging the United Nations

Katharine Gun blew the whistle on the American National Security Agency’s regional targets division. Gun intercepted an email from the chief of staff of the NSA  asking for help in bugging the United Nations offices of six countries that were members of the United Nations Security Council. On this episode of the Whistleblowers, John Kiriakou talks with Katharine Gun about her decision to go to the media with the information.

May 3, 2023 06:29
Suing the US government over federally-funded abortions

Stephanie Carter is a nurse in a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Texas. She’s now seeking a court injunction to block the Department of Veterans Affairs from compelling her and other colleagues to participate in providing any abortion-related services. On this episode of The Whistleblowers John Kiriakou discusses the lawsuit and the issue of abortions in federal facilities, with Nurse Stephanie Carter’s attorney Danielle Runyan of First Liberty Institute.

Apr 29, 2023 06:23
The pitfalls of classified documents

It seems that all the talk in Washington is about classified documents. Who has them? Why were they retained? And what should be done about it? But those are the easy questions. The more difficult ones concern why the American government produces more than 100 million classified documents every year. How many of those documents are properly and legitimately classified? John Kiriakou talks with whistleblower Jesselyn Radack about the mishandling of classified documents.

Apr 26, 2023 05:59
The Swiss currency scandal

On this episode of The Whistleblowers, John Kiriakou tells us about another courageous banking whistleblower who has been harassed by the Swiss government and banking sector for more than a decade. Trevor Kitchen exposed a multi-billion-dollar currency scandal. As a result, he lost his job, his reputation was damaged, and just two years ago he was charged with defaming the Swiss banking sector. Trevor Kitchen tells us how he was spared several years in prison.

Apr 22, 2023 06:39
South African Airways whistleblower

Cynthia Stimpel was a treasurer at South African Airways. She became aware of an irregular deal of 256 million Rand at South African Airways under the leadership of Dudu Myeni. Cynthia reported the irregularity, but the deal went ahead anyway, against her strict orders. In the end, she saved millions of Rand from being lost in an illegal and unethical deal. On this episode of The Whistleblower, Cynthia talks with John Kiriakou about the high personal price she had to pay nonetheless.

Apr 19, 2023 06:04
Taking in Snowden: The Tibbo refugees

Most people know the story of whistleblower Edward Snowden. The story that is not often told, however, is where Snowden hid, and with whom, while he was in Hong Kong. They are now known as ‘the Tibbo refugees’. On this episode of The Whistleblowers, John Kiriakou speaks with Robert Tibbo, a lawyer for the refugees, for more on this fascinating story.

Apr 15, 2023 06:41
The lost reality of Reagan’s Star Wars program

The Strategic Defense Initiative was President Reagan’s idea for a space-based anti-missile system. Detractors called it ‘Star Wars’, as the science fiction film series exploded in popularity. Even though the president begged for support from Congress to fund the program for years, no progress was made. Finally, Subrata Ghoshroy, one of the top scientists in his field, came forward to tell the truth – the program seemed more fiction than science. On this episode of The Whistleblowers, John Kiriakou talks about the failed defense program and the fallout with Subrata Ghoshroy.

Apr 12, 2023 05:59
The corruption of Trillian Capital

South African financial advisory firm Trillian Capital’s transactions are currently the subject of various fraud, corruption, and money laundering investigations and prosecutions in South Africa. On this episode of The Whistleblowers, John Kiriakou speaks to Bianca Goodson, whose evidence and disclosures continue to make an important contribution to evidence against the corruption of Trillian Capital.