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 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.
Un par de cosas en respuesta a eso: uno, él ciertamente cree que, como contratista, las vías disponibles para él como empleado no estaban disponibles; dos, hay un historial de otros denunciantes, como tratados muy duramente, según algunos; y, tres, no denunciaba una falla específica que había descubierto, sino programas aprobados por los tres poderes del gobierno.