As for labeling someone a whistleblower, I think it does them - it does all of us - a disservice, because it "otherizes" us.

I've been watching The Wire recently.

By putting these sort of lines around what ideas are proper or improper, we lose things.

The big tech companies understood that the government had not only damaged American principles, it had hurt their businesses.

I don't want to hide. If I get arrested, I get arrested.

If I had to guess what the future's going to look like for me - assuming it's not an orange jumpsuit in a hole - I think I'm going to alternate between tech and policy.

There were no whistleblower protections that would've protected me - and that's known to everybody in the intelligence community. There are no proper channels for making this information available when the system fails comprehensively.