Writing Assignment $5-$ Whistle$-$blowers

Learning Objectives and Outcomes

$$ Describe a recent example of a whistleblower disclosing classified information and describe the media coverage of the incident.

Assignment Requirements

As you learned, the actions of leakers and whistleblowers often cause embarrassment to government agencies that would prefer to keep their secrets from public view. Throughout history, whistleblowers have come forward to call attention to questionable government actions and have been met with mixed reactions.

The role of the whistleblower has increased significantly since the time of Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. This is primarily due to the ease with which technology allows modern whistleblowers to steal large quantities of government documents and release them to the media.

For this assignment:

$1.$ Research news articles about whistleblowers.

$2.$ Write a paper that describes:

$$ A recent example of a whistleblower disclosing classified information.

$$ Media coverage of the incident

$3.$ Cite sources, where appropriate $($in$-$text$).$