They are going to keep using this word, because they now realize the Justice Dept has the authority to prosecute this criminal behavior (the unlawful release of TOP SECRET information). This applies to the individual(s) at NSA who violated the law, and to the reporters who refuse to cooperate with the investigation.
Everytime you hear the MSM use the term "Whistleblower", think CRIMINAL.
I saw this moron on Nightline tonight and was ~extremely~ annoyed at how ABC repeatedly referred to him as a whistle-blower.
I do not believe that ABC is incompetent enough not to realize how inappropriate it is, at this point, to refer to him with such a loaded (laudatory) term. Yea...at the end of the report they appended as a kind of footnote that he was a dismissed psycho but only after treating him through most of ths story as a wiseman and a hero. Any honest journalist would have asked him point blank: "Some people are saying that you are making these charges because you were dismissed from NSA over allegation of mental or emotional difficulties. Are these charges that you are making in any way related to how you were treated by the agency?"
Should be fairly, but plainly, asked. Too much to expect from ABC or other MSM. Way too much.