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by jibe 350 days ago
If you are sniffing out corruption, aren’t the ones flouting required procedures likely the corrupt ones?
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Almost never.

Whistleblowers are almost always revealing information that they are legally prevented from revealing, otherwise you wouldn’t need a whistleblower. A simple FOIA request would suffice.

Kinda, but corruption in my favor is unlikely to see me complain about it.
That’s obviously no justification, all corruption is in someone’s favour. Society functions by rules. Break those founding principles and you break everything.
What if the “required procedures” are held in place by corruption?