[mikem170]

> When you make the choice to become a whistleblower, you are making the decision that the information you have is more important than your personal freedoms.

So it's wrong to expose a corrupt government without becoming a martyr? It's better to let the public to be fooled?

Not everyone thinks this way. Sometimes it matters, and sometimes it doesn't.

> he went right to Russia and horse traded information for protection

Do you have a source for the above statement?

It's my understanding that the U.S. revoked his passport while he was en-route to Ecuador, trapping him in Russia. I haven't heard that he gave the Russians any intelligence.