> A whistleblower doesn't abscond to a hostile country with troves of top secret data. Why not? The fact of being a whistleblower is orthogonal to whether you

> A whistleblower doesn't abscond to a hostile country with troves of top secret data. Why not? The fact of being a whistleblower is orthogonal to whether you abscond and where to. And Russia wasn't a "hostile country" - many of the biggest companies in the US had operations in Russia.