http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/22/how-pentagon-punished-nsa-whistleblowers

Even protectors of whistleblowers are being persecuted by government agencies over trying to do what's right. This article covers the history of the NSA whistleblower issues over the last 15 years, including the persecution of people who tried to go the legal route only to see the government destroy their names and reputations with malicious prosecution and destruction of evidence. Officials involved include the top officials in the Office of the Inspector General for the US Dept of Defense, with strongly alleged criminal behaviors being conducted to silence the whistleblowers.

Thanks you GW Bush, again ^^

We can't even get the whole panel of the NLRB to review employer wrongdoing



I can't believe his administration outed their own intelligence officers for coming back and reporting information they did not like.

Because the problem didn't persist and magnify under Obama?

I suspect bush & associated made it too "agressive", like iraq 2, it wasnt necessay to go that far.

Snowden has asylum in Russia for a reason: thats was a global "offensive" project from usa against the rest of the world: not only usa citizenssprivacy have been compromized.
That kind of project continue today [but maybe in a moderated way] and any us president will allow it to continue because, yes, most of powerfull countries are doing an equivalent, it's "national defense" & spying.

You are making yourself an enemy of the country by wanting to impeach it. Basically if you arent under the survey of your gov it will be the chineses or russians...

I think the problem has persisted under Obama but hasn't magnified. Well, it's gotten worse for national security whistleblowers but better for most everyone else.

Obama came into office saying he would do a lot to protect whisteblowers, and he did sign Presidential Policy Directive 19 of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act in 2012, but his administration has also prosecuted more national security whisteblowers under the Espionage Act than any other president.

So like most things with Obama, some good, some bad, and he hasn't done as much as he said he would. Go figure, a politician not delivering on all their promises. But personally I'd like to see him and his administration do more to protect whisteblowers, specifically national security and NSA ones like Snowden and Drake.

National security is certainly a complicated topic with lots of things to consider, but our government and the NSA shouldn't be infiltrating our lives like they do unless they have a compelling reason to do so (suspected terrorist) or have a search warrant. We need to defend our right to privacy and our 4th Amendment, and whistleblowers like Drake and Snodwen should be more protected by our government, in my opinion.

More fuel for the anti establishment fire to burn!