Noun
witness protection (uncountable)
A government program that provides new identities and protection for witnesses who come forward and testify in court against dangerous targets.
Witness protection just makes for exciting stories and it's a really rich sort of place to grab stories from... people starting over completely, saying goodbye to their lives before... it never ends in terms of story opportunities. Mary McCormack
I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as a woman in Mississippi. Phil Donahue