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Re:Sweden asks to meet Julian Assange inside Ecuador embassy by goldenkey on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @09:42AM (#11953802)
Snowden should be protected by WPA [1]. Unfortunately, trusting ones' government will follow its' own laws is quite a risk.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower_Protection_Act

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Re:Sweden asks to meet Julian Assange inside Ecuador embassy by drawnwren on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @10:38AM (#11954273)
Sorry, you're way off base here. The WPA only protects Whistleblowers who work within the government reporting system. It's not a get out of jail free card for any action you perform under the auspices of 'blowing the whistle.'
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Re:Sweden asks to meet Julian Assange inside Ecuador embassy by calgoo on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @11:08AM (#11954513)
In this case exactly. For Snowden, there is a reason he was hired as a contractor. The government contractors do not have the WPA protection that their fellow government works do.
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Re:Sweden asks to meet Julian Assange inside Ecuador embassy by mcv on Thursday June 23, 2016 @09:50AM (#11960801)
And that might make sense if the government reporting system worked. The Thomas Drake case shows that it doesn't. Thomas Drake and some other government whistleblowers agree that Snowden did the only thing he could.
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Re:Sweden asks to meet Julian Assange inside Ecuador embassy by goldenkey on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @10:45AM (#11954323)
So let me get this straight. You contact "The Office of Special Counsel [1]" and they contact the FBI/CIA to take you away to an undisclosed location. You are never seen again. I'm just not buying the effectiveness of the formal procedure unless ones' goal is to die in vain..

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Office_of_Specia...

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