The International Whistleblower Archive will provide a secure repository for documents that describe the cases of whistleblowers who have exposed fraud, waste and abuses of authority in recent decades. In partnership with Archive-It, the IWA will make capture, archive and make accessible documents about whistleblowers on the internet.
This comprehensive historical resource will serve as a permanent library for thousands of documents related to the cases of such well-known American whistleblowers, including Ernie Fitzgerald, who reported massive fraudulent cost-overruns in Pentagon weapons programs, FBI whistleblower Fred Whitehurst, who exposed fraudulent practices at the Bureau’s major crime laboratory. Public documents from the cases of numerous other whistleblowers – Daniel Ellsberg, Frank Serpico, Jim Murtagh and others – also will included.
The International Whistleblower Archives includes the WSCA News Archive and news feeds, such as the Google News Feed, that are also available separately on this website.
IWA’s Partnership With Archive-It
Archive-It is a web archiving service from Internet Archive, a digital library, founded in 1996. Internet Archive data centers based in San Francisco, California, store information on the internet. The IWA collection is available, at no cost to users, on the Archive-It website (http://archive-it.org/public/partner?id=418).
Using the International Whistleblower Archive
To access the International Whistleblower Archive on the internet, do the following.
- Log onto the IWA Archive-It page
- Insert appropriate tags in the search box. Commonly used tags include: whistleblower, whistle-blower, truth-teller, corruption, retaliation, waste, fraud, and lamplighter.
- To broaden the search, click on the “search all collections” option.
Few materials are available in digital format when we receive them. Volunteers are needed to scan and photograph materials and to digitize recordings. If you would like to volunteer to help with the project, or if you have questions about the Archive, email helpline@tidalwave.net and/or call 301-953-7353.