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They actually have had implicit threats against their lives and not just just their careers.
It's a bridge too far to get Americans to buy into the reality that implicit threats against their lives are being made, there really are no actionable civil service legal remedies for death threats and the burdens of proof are insurmountable.
On the other hand, it's really easy to get the American people to believe that the Benghazi whistle blowers are being threatened with career destruction, there are very strong, explicit and actionable civil service remedies for such threats and the burdens of proof are easily met in this case.
At any rate, once they come forward, only a truly desperate fool would try to kill or harm either them or their families
Mob,chicago mob, rule.Power responds to power.