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What you refer to as "fake whistleblower" still has their job because they followed the legal procedure for reporting abuse and therefore enjoy whistleblower pr
by tssva 7y ago
What you refer to as "fake whistleblower" still has their job because they followed the legal procedure for reporting abuse and therefore enjoy whistleblower protection.
The others sited didn't follow the legal procedure which would have allowed them to also enjoy whistleblower protection.
- jessaustin 7y agoThomas Drake followed procedure, and he got burned. John Crane was one of the bureaucrats involved with that procedure, and he didn't think the burning was proper. So he followed procedure in order to blow the whistle on the burning, so then he got burned. Unsurprisingly, no one stepped forward for Crane.
- tssva 7y agoDrake got burned because in addition to following the procedure he leaked information to the press which is not part of the procedure.
- jessaustin 7y agoAfter he got burned, the press found out. Why does your story keep changing?
- shadowgovt 7y agoThat doesn't match the Wikipedia summary. Press leak, then the Bush administration hunted for the source of the leak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailblazer_Project#Whistleblowing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailblazer_Project#Whistleblo...