Whistleblowers can be defined as those who “expose misconduct (e.g., fraud, abuse, or illegal activity) within an organization.” Whistleblowers, in the context of the intelligence community, are employees or contractors of federal intelligence agencies who bring information on agency wrongdoing to the surface. The report “Intelligence Whistleblower Protections: In Brief” by Rodney M. Perry notes that the Obama Administration and Congress in Obama’s era did take action to “limit retaliation” against whistleblowers in the intelligence community for “certain types” of protected disclosures. However, that action did not include disclosures to the media. In relation to the case of Edward Snowden, he thus stands in general unprotected against
