Another trial, with the same set of whistleblowers, concerned a separate $16.8 million contract awarded to Custer Battles to provide security at Baghdad International Airport.
Daniel P. Meyer (born 1965), federal supervisory investigator specializing in protection of whistleblowers
Whistleblower lawyer Stephen M. Kohn called the ruling "the single biggest setback for whistleblowers in the courts in the past 25 years."
Kiriakou won the 2012 Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage, which is awarded to "national security whistleblowers who stood up for constitutional rights and American values, at great risk to their personal and professional lives".
They point to the role of whistleblowers reporting from inside the government bureaucracy (individuals like Daniel Ellsberg or Paul van Buitenen).
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission had an established Bounty (reward) program for more than 20 years that was designed to reward whistleblowers for insider trading tips and complaints, an Office of the Inspector General's 2013 report found there were very few payments made under the program and the Commission received very few applications from individuals seeking a bounty.
Kohn personally has represented whistleblowers in the O. J. Simpson murder case, the World Trade Center bombing cases, the Oklahoma City bombing case, the Linda Tripp-Privacy Act case, and the Bradley Birkenfeld-UBS AG tax evasion case.