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>You need to do both How do you do that? >You need people on your side to have power. How do you get them? >The step most whistleblowers fail to take is th

• JumpCrisscross 1y ago
  > How? This is highly situation dependent. If you’re blowing the whistle on the British special forces, you’d want to have copious contemporaneous notes referencing where official documents may corroborate your claims. You’d also want to introduce your claims into the Parliamentary record; first step would be finding an MP who wants to reform (not unmake) the special forces. In this way you can play into ambitious underlings’ promotion dreams while dangling transformation resources for the agency you’re criticising. > How do you get them? If you can’t manage the basics of politics, don’t launch a political endeavour. (This is true for whistleblowing and entrepreneurship, commercial and political.) > If only Snowden would have talked to a lawyer, I'm sure he'd be safe in the US right now Chelsea Manning is out of jail. And Manning went about her business in about the stupidest way possible.