Are whistleblowers heroes or traitors? Are they a danger to the societies we live in, or a necessary corrective to the ever-creeping powers of the state? Robert Parsons puts those questions to Florence Hartmann, a French journalist and author, who has just written a book in French called "The Whistleblowers: The bad consciences of our democracies".

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