10 famous whistleblowers in US history

Joe Darby

In 2004, army reservist Joe Darby turned in a CD containing photographs of prisoner mistreatment and torture at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison to the US Army's Criminal Investigation Division. The photos were aired on 60 Minutes on CBS News and prompted global outrage.

While seven officers at the military prison in Iraq were immediately removed from the site and later tried, Darby's whistleblowing efforts had a much larger effect. While initially members of the Bush administration attempted to paint the photos as actions of a few sadistic individuals, as a result of Abu Ghraib investigations, increased scrutiny of treatment improved prisoners' conditions.

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