The organization has collectively testified before Congressional committees in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate to demand that Congress act to end government retaliation against those who expose corruption, misdeeds and errors in the realm of U.S. national security.

Takeovers.com, for example, will be a portal for so-called activist investors looking to expose corporate misdeeds.

The administration of justice is warped when the Government pursues someone for exposing misdeeds that the Government itself found deplorable and that led to the dismissal of two senior C.I.A. officers and the punishment of several others.

Once in Britain, Berezovsky launched a concerted campaign to expose alleged misdeeds of Vladimir Putin, from suppressing freedom of speech to committing war crimes in Chechnya.

On December 22, 1974, the "New York Times" published the first of a series of articles by Seymour M. Hersh, which relied on leaked reports of CIA activities assembled by Director James Rodney Schlesinger to expose alleged misdeeds by the agency.

What is needed is a strong federal law protecting whistleblowers who expose misdeeds inside business and government.

After exposing misdeeds, all those in the private sector reported they were dismissed.

Specializing in prisons, the environment and political scandals, Forbes' reporting was directly responsible for prison reform in Oklahoma, indictments and environmental clean-ups in Connecticut and exposing political misdeeds in each locale.

"The moral, it seems, is do not expose corruption or misdeeds," he wrote then.