We have a whistleblower protection law in this country called the Federal Whistleblower Protection Act.

But unfortunately, national security whistleblowers are exempt from its protections.

And so if a person who works for, let's say, the CIA, the Pentagon, the FBI, DEA, one of the congressional oversight committees,

the intelligence committees on Capitol Hill, if they want to make a revelation, there is no way

to make a protected revelation. For example, we're told to go through our chains of command. But if your

chain of command is what is violating the law, there's really nowhere to go, but the media. And if

you go to the media, of course, you risk a criminal charge, you risk bankruptcy, you risk

your career, everything. This is something that I feel

very strongly about that we need to correct up on Capitol Hill. There have to be protections

implemented for national security whistleblowers. So you're saying there's no accountability.

No way for anybody that's in those services to reach out for any kind of

protection. If you feel like things are happening within the service that are illegal,

anti-American, anything at all that you feel like should have oversight, there's

nowhere for you to go. There's nowhere for you to go. And I'll give you an example.

Thomas Drake was a member of the Senior Intelligence Service at NSA, the National Security Administration,

National Security Agency.

And he found solid evidence of illegality, that is the interception of communications of American citizens without a warrant.

So he went to the Inspector General.

The Inspector General was not read into the compartment compartment and so said he just didn't know

what Tom was talking about. He then went to the General Counsel. The General Counsel told him

that this was above his pay grade and he should just stop. So then he went to the Pentagon

Inspector General because NSA, of course, is a component of the Pentagon. The Pentagon Inspector General told NSA, hey, you have a rogue employee who came here to

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