Starting with Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, Bruce Schneier has attempted compiling a list of recent/current US intelligence community whistle-blowers.
He counts 6 (possibly 7) of them.
This Warren Buffet quote seems relevant
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday April 22 2015, @06:18PM
And the answer is because the US is going to hell in a handbag.
Or perhaps it's finally getting better. Hard to tell the shape of the forest when you are surrounded by trees...
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday April 22 2015, @09:14PM
The sure sign that it is "finally getting better" is that there will be masses of NSA, CIA, Congressmen, and Wall Street bankers going to jail or to the guillotine. We're not seeing that happen. What we are seeing are the 1% about to dance on our graves with their ultimate victory in the TPP and police shooting people like dogs in the street. There's a long way to go between now, and better.
Washington DC delenda est.