[sterlind]

Merriam Webster defines whistleblowing as:

> one who reveals something covert or who informs against another especially : an employee who brings wrongdoing by an employer or by other employees to the attention of a government or law enforcement agency

Wikipedia further asserts:

> Whistleblowing is the activity of a person, often an employee, revealing information about activity within a private or public organization that is deemed wrongful – whether it be illegal, immoral, illicit, unsafe, unethical, or fraudulent

Arguably, nothing the NSA was doing was illegal. Was Snowden not a whistleblower?

[r3trohack3r]

> Arguably, nothing the NSA was doing was illegal.

The Supreme Court disagreed; the surveillance program was illegal.

[thayne]

And if they had ruled the other way, would he not have been a whistleblower?