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Re:Disputed NSA Phone Program Is Shut Down, Aide Says by jessaustin on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @09:22AM (#19310661)
NSA is very effective for its actual purpose: transferring public assets to private hands. NSA employees either make their peace with that or they get destroyed. NSA treats whistleblowers at least as poorly as whistleblowers are treated anywhere else in the public segment of the military-industrial complex. Which is to say, very very poorly.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/22/how-pentagon...

https://www.rollcall.com/news/pentagon-whistleblowers-often-...

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Re:Disputed NSA Phone Program Is Shut Down, Aide Says by auiya on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @11:27AM (#19311614)
Do you expect to hear from NSA whistleblowers for which everything went fine?
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Re:Disputed NSA Phone Program Is Shut Down, Aide Says by jessaustin on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @02:01PM (#19313145)
As we see in Table 2.3 on page 56 of a GAO report to Congress [0], of the 1159 Pentagon whistleblower reprisal complaints submitted in 2H-FY18, 16% were "substantiated" and the rest were repurposed for toilet paper. I do not expect the unsupervised services to surpass the performance of the Pentagon in this area. I'm also not surprised that the official-stenography war media have not covered this report.

[0] https://media.defense.gov/2018/Dec/06/2002069859/-1/-1/1/SAR...

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