During
the first Democratic presidential debate, Hillary Clinton denounced Edward
Snowden as a criminal who simply refused to work through official channels. "He
broke the laws," said Clinton. "He could have been a whistleblower, he could
have gotten all the protections of being a whistleblower."
Would Edward
Snowden be better off had he gone through official channels to blow the
whistle?
No way, says his lawyer, Jesselyn Radack of
ExposeFacts.org.
In an interview with Nick Gillespie, she points to
intelligence whistleblowers who came before Snowden as evidence that her client
would not have been provided legal protections. "Tom Drake, Bill Binney, Kirk
Wiebe, and Ed Loomis did go through the proper channels," she tells Reason TV,
"and all of them fell under criminal investigations for having done so."
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