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Play of the Day: The Plight of the Whistleblowers
The Daily Show looks at protections for feds who blow the whistle on waste, fraud and abuse.
At 12:01 am Thursday, residents of the District of Columbia could legally smoke marijuana, causing Republicans to threaten DC officials with jail time as it goes forward. The Tonight Show's Jimmy Fallon joked about a very high profile smoker in the nation's capital.
The Daily Show spent its first segment Thursday on the Obama administration's crackdown on whistleblowers in government. Host Jon Stewart referenced Stephen Kim and Darrell Whitman as examples of whistleblowers who've faced government charges as a result of their actions. To protect them, Stewart suggests a new bit of bureaucracy to help the whistleblowers who help whistleblowers.