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That is only for "legal" whistleblowers though. Snowden was not.
by sigzero 3y ago
That is only for "legal" whistleblowers though. Snowden was not.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoThat was his choice. He could have chosen the legal avenue and would have been afforded whistleblower protections. Fleeing the country with classified material doesn't afford you protection.
- kenicctwd 3y agoCopying from another comment, to prove how stupid is to expect that a secret service will pet you on the head for talking out against them: "Thomas Drake did everything you say is the right, he paid the price: | The first is Thomas Drake, who blew the whistle on the | very same NSA activities 10 years before Snowden did. | Drake was a much higher-ranking NSA official than | Snowden, and he obeyed US whistleblower laws, raising | his concerns through official channels. And he got | crushed. | Drake was fired, arrested at dawn by gun-wielding FBI | agents, stripped of his security clearance, charged | with crimes that could have sent him to prison for | the rest of his life, and all but ruined financially | and professionally. The only job he could find | afterwards was working in an Apple store in suburban | Washington, where he remains today. Adding insult to | injury, his warnings about the dangers of the NSA’s | surveillance programme were largely ignored. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/22/how-pentagon https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/22/how-pentagon... "
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoTIL, very interesting. I'll have to read more but it seems that he didn't use proper channels he went to a reporter (with only unclass material, he claims). They raided him probably expecting classified material to be involved. Thanks for sharing, I hadn't heard of this instance.