So, if someone sings like a canary and rats on their friends, we would never call them a " canary" . But, we could call them a rat. Canaries, it seems, are easier to love than rats.
Desk warriors can occasionally be caught up in dramatic stories, whether journalists (" Spotlight" ), lawyers (" Dark Waters" ) or whistleblowers (" The Informant" ).
Another IG report in March found that FBI retaliation against internal whistle-blowers was continuing despite years of bureau pledges to fix the problem.