From Mark Hertsgaard: How the Pentagon punished NSA whistleblowers | The Guardian.
A look at what happenedwhen one man tried to “work within the system” at the National Security Agency.
John Crane, and he was a senior official in the Department of Defense who fought to provide fair treatment for whistleblowers such as Thomas Drake – until Crane himself was forced out of his job and became a whistleblower as well.His testimony reveals a crucial new chapter in the Snowden story
Source: How the Pentagon punished NSA whistleblowers | Mark Hertsgaard | US news | The Guardian
Democracy Now! this morning featured a former official of the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Defense (which has jurisdiction over the NSA) who was fired because he tried to defend the NSA whistleblowers.