Join us for a wonderful evening to discuss New York Times’ best selling author Tom Mueller's new book, Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud. Tom Mueller will be joined by Tom Carpenter (Executive Director) and Donna Busche (Hanford Whistleblower) to discuss the social and legal evolution of whistleblowing, at Hanford and beyond.

We hope to see you there for this topical and important discussion!

ABOUT CRISIS OF CONSCIENCE

“‘Unauthorized disclosures’ by whistleblowers are the lifeblood of a republic. As many of Mueller’s fascinating cases show, misplaced loyalty–exclusively to a boss or an organization or a president–can be betrayal: of the health of consumers, of an oath to the Constitution, or of a war’s worth of lives.” -Daniel Ellsberg

A David-and-Goliath story for our times: the riveting account of the heroes who are fighting a rising tide of wrongdoing by the powerful, and showing us the path forward.

We live in a period of sweeping corruption — and a golden age of whistleblowing. Over the past few decades, principled insiders who expose wrongdoing have gained unprecedented legal and social stature, emerging as the government’s best weapon against corporate misconduct–and the citizenry’s best defense against government gone bad. Whistleblowers force us to confront fundamental questions about the balance between free speech and state secrecy, and between individual morality and corporate power.

In Crisis of Conscience, Tom Mueller traces the rise of whistleblowing through a series of riveting cases drawn from the worlds of healthcare and other businesses, Wall Street, and Washington. Drawing on in-depth interviews with more than two hundred whistleblowers and the trailblazing lawyers who arm them for battle–plus politicians, intelligence analysts, government watchdogs, cognitive scientists, and other experts–Mueller anatomizes what inspires some to speak out while the rest of us become complicit in our silence. Whistleblowers, we come to see, are the freethinking, outspoken citizens for whom our republic was conceived. And they are the models we must emulate if our democracy is to survive.

ABOUT TOM MUELLER

Tom Mueller’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic. He is the author of the New York Times-bestselling Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil.