By my definition, a ‘whistle-blower’ is a man who dwells in an ambiguous netherworld, where a perverse pride in his past unethical achievements coexists with a desire to expose the corrupt system that successfully nurtured him for so long.
What follows is not an attempt to make excuses for my actions, nor to justify them. It strives to be one thing above all: honest. I will not shy away from giving a full and candid account of what I did, and nor do I ask you to forgive me. For as George Orwell wrote, ‘There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.’
Let’s begin.