The comeback on that is a couple of things: one, that he certainly believes that as a contractor, the avenues that would have been available to him as an employee weren't available, two, there's a track record of other whistleblowers, like [Thomas Andrews Drake] being treated pretty harshly, by some views, and thirdly, what he was taking on was not one specific flaw that he'd discovered, but programs that had been approved by all three branches of government.
Odgovor na to su dvije stvari: prvo, što on doista vjeruje  da on kao ugovornik nije imao iste mogućnosti obraćanja poput stalnih zaposlenika, a drugo,  poznato je da se druge zviždače, poput [Thomasa Andrewsa Drakea] vrlo grubo tretiralo u nekim pogledima i treće, ono čime se on bavio nije bila jedna specifična greška koju je otkrio, nego programi koje su odobrile sve tri grane vlasti.