What Is The White House Hiding?

Don't Fear The Leaker -- Glenn Harlan Reynolds, USA Today

Whistleblowing keeps legitimacy of a government as big, and often unaccountable, as ours.

Ever since whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked information about the National Security Agency's widespread -- possibly illegal, even criminal -- program of data collection and spying, we've heard a lot about possibly the least important question raised by the event: Whether Snowden is a good person or not.

My own take is that nobody knows. In fact, Snowden himself may not know the full context or ramifications of his actions. But it also doesn't matter.

What does matter is that the Snowden affair occurs in the context of an unprecedented administration war on whistleblowers. And that's a bad idea because whistleblowing is one of the things that maintains the legitimacy of a government as big, and otherwise unaccountable, as ours.

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My Comment: What's my take .... the White House's unprecedented war on whistle-blowers is telling me that they have many things to hide.