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.
والرد على ذلك في بضع نقاط : واحد, انه يعتقد انه كمتعاقد , لم تكن متوفره له الفرص التي تتوفر للموظفين , اثنين, هناك تاريخ من كاشفي التجاوزات السابقين له , مثل (ثوماس اندرو دريك) تم التعامل معهم بصوره قاسيه جدا , حسب بعض الاراء , وثالثا, ان ما كان يتحدث عنه لم يكن خطأ واحدا محددا قام باكتشافه , بل برامج تمت الموافقه عليها عن طريق الافرع الثلاث للحكومه.