Acknowledgments
Introduction, by Kaeten Mistry and Hannah Gurman
1. The Paradox of National Security Whistleblowing: Locating and
Framing a History of the Phenomenon, by Hannah Gurman and Kaeten
Mistry
2. From Censorship to Classification: The Evolution of the
Espionage Act, by Sam Lebovic
3. The Devil’s Advocate: Leonard B. Boudin, Civil Liberties, and
the Legal Defense of Whistleblowing, by Julia Rose Kraut
4. Celebrity Hero: Daniel Ellsberg and the Forging of Whistleblower
Masculinity, by Lida Maxwell
5. The Rise and Fall of Anti-Imperial Whistleblowing in the Long
1970s, by Kaeten Mistry
6. Winter Soldiers of the Dark Side: CIA Whistleblowers and
National Security Dissent, by Jeremy Varon
7. From the Mundane to the Absurd: The Advent and Evolution of
Prepublication Review, by Richard H. Immerman
8. The Public Sphere Hero: Representations of Whistleblowing in
U.S. Culture, by Timothy Melley
9. Creating Uncertainty, Casting Doubt: U.S. Intelligence Leaks
from Reform to Spyware for Sale, by Matthew L. Jones
10. Unfit to Print: The Press and the Contragate Whistleblowers, by
Hannah Gurman
11. The Challenge of Journalism and the Truth in Our Times: James
Risen, Judith Miller, and National Security Reporting, by Lloyd C.
Gardner
Coda: Edward Snowden, National Security Whistleblowing, and Civil
Disobedience, by David Pozen
Conclusion, by Kaeten Mistry and Hannah Gurman
Further Reading
List of Contributors
Index
Kaeten Mistry is senior lecturer in American history at the
University of East Anglia. He is the author of The United States,
Italy, and the Origins of Cold War: Waging Political Warfare,
1945–1950 (2014) and editor of Reforms, Reflections, and
Reappraisals: The CIA and U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1947
(2011).
Hannah Gurman is associate professor at New York University’s
Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She is the author of The
Dissent Papers: The Voices of Diplomats in the Cold War and Beyond
(Columbia, 2012) and editor of A People’s History of
Counterinsurgency (2013).
With democracies under threat and systems of oversight collapsing
around the world, whistleblowing has never been more relevant. This
book is a crucial resource for understanding a great paradox: how
laws are rescued by a few who dare to break them.
*Edward Snowden*
A dazzling collection that could hardly be more timely. Whatever
your view of whistleblowers—heroes, traitors, or something in
between—reading and reflecting on these essays will give you a far
better appreciation of this controversial yet crucially important
phenomenon.
*Andrew Bacevich, author of The Age of Illusions: How America
Squandered Its Cold War Victory*
As Kaeten Mistry and Hannah Gurman demonstrate in this brilliant
and compelling collection, the fates of national security
whistleblowing and democracy are linked. These sharply written
essays examine the characteristics of whistleblowers, the way
secrecy and whistleblowing have changed over time, the interests at
stake when the government prosecutes whistleblowers, and much more.
Whistleblowing Nation is essential reading on the tensions between
government secrecy and the transparency essential in a
democracy.
*Mary L. Dudziak, author of War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its
Consequences*
The book, with its diverse voices, contains an abundance of
valuable and interesting information. The authors examine
whistleblowing in all of its complexity while avoiding the
temptation to lionize whistleblowers or idealize them.
*Steven Aftergood, Federation of American Scientists*
This is the first major anthology to treat whistleblowing as a
historical and cultural phenomenon. The contributors use careful
and broad-ranging examinations to detail the post-WWI relationship
of the federal censoring apparatus to histories of democracy and
democratic assumptions. The volume is extremely enlightening.
*Andrew Friedman, Haverford College*
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