Comment by ordu

> Swampy knew he was caught in a prisoner’s dilemma. If he went along, he was breaking the law; if he didn’t, whistleblowers who complained about unsafe practices were routinely terminated on grounds of violating the same safety protocols they had opposed violating.

How is it a prisoner's dilemma? Is it about cooperating with whisleblowers or defecting them?

It seems to me to be a mere dilemma, two choices, both bad. There was no interplay of cooperate/defect strategies.