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The following spring, Felt and FBI Counterintelligence Chief Edward Miller effectively blew the whistle on themselves by publicly admitting that they had authorized the "black bag jobs" assuming full responsibility for them.
Roger Boisjoly and Allan McDonald, for example, were engineers with Morton Thiokol Corporation, a National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) contractor, when they blew the whistle on the design and decisional flaws that led to the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster.
Mr White says he was dismissed for refusing to discipline the woman who blew the whistle on abuse allegations at Hazelcroft Residential Home.
A lawyer named Pat Holloway who represented a small oil company (which has filed suit against some of the larger companies) blew the whistle on the meeting.
Marvin Rudnick, Earnest's attorney, claims his client was laid off because she blew the whistle on politically connected contractors.
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