Speaking Up for Those Who Speak Out

Nonprofit groups that aid government whistle-blowers say their workload has been growing

Four years ago, when Teresa Chambers told The Washington Post that the nation's monuments and parklands were less secure than they had been in previous years because fewer police were available to patrol them, she never thought her job as police chief of the U.S. Park Police would hang in the balance. Her bosses at the Interior Department had long appreciated the way she had interacted with the news media, she says, and had never complained when she had done so.

"They had

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