The u. S. Congress passed our first whistleblower law and they did it when whistleblowers sailors and marines had criticized the commander of the u. S. Navy and cooing criticizing him for mistreating british prisoners. So this was embarrassing to the u. S. Governor government. But think about it. The Founding Fathers put everything on the line. This wasnt an election. If they lost the revolution they are going to get home for treason. In the middle of that revolution they paused. They said every inhabitant of the United States should report waste, fraud and corruption even if it embarrassed the new government. And not only did they pass that law they then voted money for the lawyers for the bristle whistleblowers who had been thrown in jail and they released all the papers that were controversial, that were embarrassing to the government. And the whistleblowers won their case. Andand that was july 30, 1778. So this is not some token day. This is a day for every american to sit back and