Whistleblower Protection Hearing: Jeffrey Wigand Testimony

Dr. Jeffrey Wigand testifies about his experience as a whistleblower at a Workforce Protections subcommittee hearing on whistleblower protections on May 15, 2007.

[@rhonda6004]

THANK YOU Dr. Jefferey Wigard! I know it cost you everything but it was because of you & your interview with 60 min. I watched your live interview that night & put down the cigarette in my hand for the last time! I have never put one back in my mouth again!!!! All because of your courage to TELL ME THE TRUTH!

[@santomarakai]

Dear Dr Wigand, I use to smoke from 17 years to on and off till 45 years old. Stopped for a while pregnant two kids, then started again, but I did not felt healthy then, got tired very easy with few steps going up stairs, cigarets were taking over my body. My kids were still small, still long way to go. I wanted to become healthy, for myself, and for my kids. I decided to quit on my 45th birthday, and I did. Then I started walking and trekking. And thank you for what you done for what was right.

[@gemawan]

just watched "The Insider"...a brave man really...really inspiring

[@MrOrtizpolo]

Thank you Dr. Jeffrey Wigand. You are a true hero.

[@StephenFiorentini]

What a brave man, who has taking the bravest step in the world, he is the only true gold hearted ex tobacco executive, who took on the company he used to work for you are a hero

[@saxmanchiro]

A man of true courage and morality. A true hero for millions.

[@jhyland87]

This guys a god damn hero. "Im running out of heros. Guys like you are hard to come by", great line from that movie

[@Keira15true]

yes it is and I adore Jeffrey Wigand fore, what he did:)...Thank you!

[@SpaceCadet1]

Damn based on this video clip, Russell Crowe captured some of Wigand's characteristics really well.

[@per-ivindmartinsen3086]

Thanks for telling the truth:-)

[@lorianne5453]

Amen ! Thank You Jefferey!

[@Dremple]

Thank God Dr. Wigand was an Honorable man and did the Right thing regardless of the fallout Thanks Dr.Wigand! One Cool Dude

[@futeki78]

Hero!

[@MrWinproducts]

I quit after see this thnx u Dr Wigand 🙏👍

[@petrofilmeurope]

Courageous and bright.

[@rondadoolin]

BRAVO Jeff...Thank you

[@mollyshredder]

This man was so brave.

[@zagabaa]

Just seen the movie "The Insider", brave, brave man.

[@champlvr]

I too just watched the insider,excellence in film to say the least.I found it strange that when I went to c.b.s news to watch the 60min interview,it only plays corporate commercials Mastercard Honda etc.Are the still trying to suppress the truth?Dr.Wigant should be Times man of the year!

[@zenalaus]

@Thelookout Yes, he's a Hero. He actually never wanted to help a cigarette company sell its product the way it was or injure people or lie to the public or anything like that to begin with- he said they had lied to him saying they wanted him to help them make cigarettes safer but that they had said that only so he'd agree to work for them. So I don't see much of any flaw in him to begin with at all.

[@adelaidemarie]

i believe dr. wigands experience, being documented as it was, shows, not only himself but the world, just who rules our authorities. for dr. wigand he discovered, And shared his discovery, the power of tobaco companies. someone else showed us the power monsantoes has and yet another the power america's cia has.

[@arrrgonot7801]

Edward Snowden cmes to mind here.

[@eakherenow]

Wonder why this video is blurred ? Dr.Wigand is speaking the truth and having someone do so is so rare technology can't bare it.

[@snifnscratch]

@suckerdwsp316 Jeffrey is an inspiration. What a man!!

[@pricklyphlox]

Whistleblowers are heroes. How about we call them PATRIOTIC CITIZEN REPORTERS instead of whistleblowers?

[@apostolostv]

A true hero.

[@V8Deuce]

Just watched the interview with him and William Shatner. A brave man indeed

[@TheSaint135]

when was the last time you risked everything you have created for you and your family, even puting the health of your own daughter, to save or improve the lives of millions of strangers and follow your conscience?

[@ksbav8r]

@kenfo0 are you forgetting that the reason he was fired, was for deciding to follow his conscience in the first place? All he had to do to have that life that you describe, was shut up and do his job. And he didn't. It would be a much better world if most people behaved the way he did.

[@snifnscratch]

Jeffrey should be president! Profit is a dirty word. If profit and money are your main priorities, you are a very poor person indeed

[@ChrisEspiritu]

while its true tobacco companies don't force people to buy cigarettes or start smoking. If its true they forced chemicals to make them more potent is in my opinion a crime.

[@reneleow]

The important thing is that he turned to do the right thing now. Yes he was flawed, but aren't we all? And the the important thing is now - are we doing right, now?

[@jharri1]

Hero

[@0restes]

I agree with milkmoney. Everyone is flawed, even heros and superheros. Wigand had the guts to admit his acceptance of a 300k salary. As for selling out, he was hired on the premise that he would work on a safer cigarette. Also when you have children to protect, this kind of step is daunting. But I'm sure that as his children grew up, they became proud of their father's courage.

[@tributevocalist]

B&W wouldn't have made all of those threats if they weren't trying to hide any wrongdoing on their part, only cowards would have done what B&W did to him.

[@spinachshark]

Why is there only one clip of Wigand testimony on KZbin? Please post more.

[@eyepatchplease]

Good, go watch All the President's Men and you'll be solid!

[@scottbiz]

i come back to watch Parts 9,10 on YT,time and time again,to enjoy how attorney motley stomps on the tobacco attorney....you absolutely have to wonder about the kind of individuals that run a tobacco company;its an industry that perhaps best fits the description of having zero conscience, and "willing to sell their grandmothers to enjoy and safeguard a very comfortable life."

[@galidorn1]

Anyone who thinks corporations can govern themselves ethically because of free market pressures is either naive or dubious.

[@chicken2694]

the insider is a grate movie

[@sparkle11231]

@jack88344 -- (and to abbyhroman) -- I hated her too but...........we didn't live in that house or walked in her shoes. She didn't bargain for having her children possible targets. Or herself either. She just wasn't as brave or as incredibly strong as this wonderful man...I don't think she should be hated; just ignored.

[@zenalaus]

@reneleow He actually never wanted to help a cigarette company injure people or lie to the public or anything like that to begin with- he said they had lied to him saying they wanted him to help them make cigarettes safer but that they had said that only so he'd agree to work for them. So I don't see much of any flaw in him to begin with.

[@ChrisEspiritu]

Also I think Pro forgot to read the disclaimer that intelligent people could only understand the film. That being said.. I loved the film.

[@ChrisEspiritu]

OK after reading all your comments I just have to say... 1.) Do you know what cigarettes are? 2.) Did you not understand the plight Dr. Wigand went through? I'm totally curious.. cause I think you need to go back and re-watch The Insider.

[@saejinoh]

Truly a God among men

[@Turco949]

Cigarettes are safe.....as long as you don't light them up! Props to him for his courage.

[@whatsgoingon07]

corporate wistleblowers = epic heroes

[@genmaximus110]

Has anyone seen the actual 60 Minutes episode with Dr. Wigand? I can't find it on KZbin. I'm surprised...

[@uwaisis]

anyone know where i can get hold of the CBS interview with Wigan on 60 minutes?

[@PaulODwyer49916020]

Go on Doc stand upto those cruel men from B&W

[@TheStudyOfPedro]

what year was all of this anyway?

[@pricklyphlox]

@marshalsea My suggestion to call them Patriotic Citizen Reporters was simply due to the fact that people have given a bad connotation to 'whistleblower.' And I don't see anything wrong with the kind of nationalism that simply regards the welfare of the citizenry as a whole as more important than the profit of corporations.

[@MsBrownImABigDeal]

please all of you go to us justice watch senate Price ,,, Brown Bordergate

[@marshalsea]

@pricklyphlox Patriotic? Such ridiculous notions of national identity, we should be subsiding into a much more general humanist structure by now. Wigand did what he had to to protect himself and his family, he's the first to admit that. However, as Suckerdwsp put, this took"A LOT OF BALLS", and someone with more courage than the average person. This particular Whistleblowing is the same level as the Private Bradley Manning, a man now being held on account of being somehow "treasonous".

[@genmaximus110]

That's a shame. I'd really love to see it.

[@milkmoney11]

Had he not been flawed he would have never been in the position to be considered a hero. He would have never been hired and trusted by big tobacco if they didn't think he would fall "in line".

[@shenry7791]

.. and yet cigarettes is being smoked...

[@sonikue23]

@op684 Nope.

[@MrStockford1]

with a hidey hidey hidey and a hidey lidey hey, we work and make our cigarettes all hidey lidey day. So folks can get a breaky from their hidey lidey lives and relaxey with the cigarettes we make all day and night.

[@galidorn1]

tell that boycott story to the people how died from lung cancer through 2nd hand smoke

[@Aquar1uZ]

Cigarettes are bad because they are made bad. Tobacco - in it´s pure form - has been used by mankind for it´s benificial uses for millenia. Do not confuse the two. That´s only fuel on the fire that is being created by the anti-smoking lobby. I highly recommend the book "Smoking Scare Debunked" by Dr William T Whitby in which several issues are uncovered with regards to the effects of smoking tobacco and several myths are addressed.

[@darkbunglex]

The worst thing about scientists is the can't do public speaking or debate on TV format news shows. This guy is a champion but his testimony is unintelligible

[@PetraKann]

so English is not your first language?

[@darkbunglex]

Petra Kann Haha, got me totouché. But seriously, speaking is the biggest problem trying to convince people that smoking causes cancer, global warming is real or similar facts that are not disputed in science but are in the public. Corporations learned many years ago to hire PR reps with doctorates in anything. They learned science experts are usually not good at debating or adapting to short form TV segments. They would fund their own studies to contradict the truth. This is how they all the CEOs of every cigarette company could sit with a straight face and testify in 1994 that "Nicotine is NOT addictive". Look it up, the C-SPAN footage is on KZbin

[@darshanakaivalya8748]

THE BIGGEST MISTAKE BROWN AND WILLIAMSON MADE WAS PISSING OFF JEFFREY WIGAND.