english: 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.
non_english: Postoji nekoliko odgovora na to: prvo, on veruje da kao radnik po ugovoru nije imao iste načine koje imaju redovni zaposleni, drugo, zna se da su drugi uzbunjivači kao što je Tomas Endrus Drejk, po nekim mišljenjima, tretirani prilično oštro, i treće, on se nije bavio jednom određenom manom koju je otkrio, nego programima koje su odobrile sve tri grane vlade.