Is President Bush trying to soften legislation meant to protect corporate whistle-blowers? Two Senators responsible for writing such protections into the corporate-accountability act think so. Before passage of that measure in July, people who faced workplace retaliation as a result of speaking out against wrongdoing at their companies were at the mercy of a patchwork of state and federal laws. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was supposed to change all that, say Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa. They added a provision shielding people who provide information to any member of the House or Senate. But...
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