Beautiful Souls: The Courage and Conscience of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times Highlight

There were lots of other people in Houston who likely felt the same way, albeit for different reasons. To judge by Time’s cover story back in 2002, whistleblowers were harassed and vilified until proven right, at which point they morphed into folk heroes. In reality, being right not infrequently made things worse. For if the person who blew the whistle was justified, what did this say about all the people who didn’t? About the team players who’d profited handsomely by remaining silent? “That’s part of the reason why so many of those other advisers hate us,” Charlie Rawl had told me. “They were at a lot of the same meetings we were at. We’re symbols of what they should have done.”