[eyespysomething]

Employees with the NSA are exempt from "whistle-blowers" status.

Do you have a source for that?

[conservative in nyc]

Spilling the details of classified programs to the New York Times is NOT whistleblowing. Whistleblowers go to administration officials or maybe to Congress. Not the Slimes.

[FreedomCalls]

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/2006/01/the_nsa_domesti.html

[muawiyah]

It's pretty much common knowledge in the WarshDC area where we have these NSA types standing on every street corner that (1) ain't no such thing as "whistleblowing" on a classified job, (2) they sign an agreement and get subjected to regular polygraph tests.

Outside this area the ordinary facts of life surrounding such jobs may not be well known.

I do know people who have had such jobs. When you go off your meds you will need to get a new job.

[Casloy]

Do you have a source for that?

There are lawyers in place in every intelligence agency which are available to discuss any violations of the law. If they don't give one satisfaction then one can go to the Inspector General, and if that doesn't give one satisfaction one can go to a member of one of the intelligence committees. The problem is, this guy Tice is not saying anything that all members of the Senate and House oversight committees didn't know about, so in fact to whom is he blowing the whistle? Individuals within the intelligence community do not have the right to decide what is or is not a violation of the constitution and then take independent action.