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1. Name the Israeli nuclear technician who leaked the status of Israel's nuclear weapons program in 1986. He spent eighteen years in prison.
2. In 1989 Myron Mehlman warned the energy company that he worked for that the gasoline being sold in Japan contained dangerous amounts of benzene. Which company immediately fired him?
3. Gary Webb documented the importation of cocaine into Los Angeles in his series of newspaper articles "Dark Alliance." Webb provided evidence that United States government agents had helped to ship cocaine into the United States to raise money for the Nicaraguan Contras. Which agency facilitated the crack boom in L.A.?
4. What is the name of the US Army Chaplain who ministered to the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. This West Point graduate was arrested for sedition in 2003 and spent more than seventy days in solitary confinement until the charges against him were dropped.
5. Thomas Drake worked for the National Security Agency. He leaked information to a reporter, and was charged under the Espionage Act, facing up to 35 years in prison. What issue caused Drake to speak up?
6. What is the common name of the document leaked by Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo. This collection of documents was a secret government history and analysis of the Vietnam War. "The New York Times" published excerpts from the document.
7. Chelsea (formerly) Bradley Manning released thousands of State Department cables to a web page project intended to distribute leaked information. What is the name of this web page?
8. While Private First Class Bradley Manning was copying the diplomatic cables later released by Wiki Leaks he pretended he was listening to which quirky pop artist?
9. Name the former New York City Police detective who criticized the NYPD for corruption. He was shot in the face during a drug raid and left to die by his police colleagues.
10. Meryl Streep starred in this 1983 movie named after this famous whistleblower. The film is roughly biographical about a worker at a plutonium plant who is attempting to document corner cutting that is putting workers at risk. Name the title of the film.
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