The final, anguished years of a warrior-scholar who exposed torture by US troops
>  then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told Congress it was a simple matter of bad apples who would be punished, not a systematic problem with new U.S. military policy.<p>Fischback's story is symptomatic of how the US treats whistleblowers: once you go down that road, you will be alone, shunned, with a meager safety net and with a crippled ability to make a living.  For all of the hoo ha about American individualism, organizations are sacrosanct and individuals are devalued: in the courts, in government, in the workplace, and in culture.