Sadly, as a number of high-profile criminal cases against whistle-blowers show, the Obama administration has followed its predecessor in aggressively cracking down on unauthorized leaks.

很遗憾，从一系列众所周知的针对检举者的刑事案件不难看出，奥巴马与其前任一样选择了对未经授权的信息泄露予以强烈打击。

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After Enron, an energy firm, collapsed in a flurry of fraud, Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley act in 2002 which, among other things, protected whistle-blowers from retaliation.

能源公司安然卷进诈骗漩涡后倒闭，国会于2002年通过了萨班斯·奥克斯利法案，和其他一系列措施，共同保护检举揭发者不受报复的伤害。

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Even after a disgruntled senior executive posted some rum-sounding details to Wikileaks, a website specialising in information provided by whistle-blowers, they would have remained obscure.

即使在一位心怀不满的银行高管向Wikileaks——专注于由告密者提供消息的网站——泄密之后，他们依然扑朔迷离。

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One of the whistle blowers, Kirk McElhearn, said Apple had "done the right thing".

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The other problem with exemptions are button pushers and whistle blowers that would trigger needless audits.

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Simon Danczuk, MP for Rochdale, said "whistle blowers" told him that there was "no urgency" in the investigation.

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