http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/ce216134-e6c7-11e3-9a20-00144feabdc0.html

This article is worth reading simply because of the contrast you'll see between the gametalk the whistleblowers spew, and the powertalk the law firms/banks engage in.

From the last section of the article:

He has no regrets about becoming a whistleblower. But he still wonders why JPMorgan Chase did not support him. He quotes – with some irony – an expression used by Jamie Dimon, the bank’s chairman and CEO, in a 2009 speech to the Harvard Business School in which he said, “Do the right thing, not the expedient thing.” According to Sivere, “I had no reason to believe what I did was contrary to what senior management would expect from me and any JPMorgan Chase employee. You are taught at a young age right from wrong. Yet as we grow older and have our own self-interests in sight many of us lose that feeling of right and wrong.”

Gametalk all the way. Contrast that with the official statements of the banks/their legal departments earlier on in the same article.

It's amazing how much of reality is about power and frame.