Don't "spies" by definition work for another nation?

[intrepidity]

A spy by any other name is a whistle blower

[elleng]

1. No

'a person who secretly collects and reports information on the activities, movements, and plans of an enemy or competitor.'

[intrepidity]

4. Enemy or competitor

Of the United States is....?

[RockRaven]

2. Trump not never word no good.

Trump rarely uses words correctly.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

14. LOL!!!!

It's funny because it's true, and even funnier because he believes that he speaks well.

[JI7]

3. not necessarily

[intrepidity]

5. Example of a spy who didn't? nt

[JI7]

7. haven't they done things like go after sex trafficking , financial fraud

and other things like that ?

[intrepidity]

8. Those sound like whistleblowers

Or do you you mean like undercover cops?

[JI7]

9. yes, people that go undercover to gather info

[intrepidity]

10. Those are not the "spies" Trump referenced today

that "we used to know what to do with."

[JI7]

11. i was just talking in general. not about what Trump said

[NCLefty]

6. Trump is openly disregarding the Whistleblower Protection Act. He's mad.

[RainCaster]

12. You mean like DFT?

[Kaleva]

13. No. They are anyone who works clandestinely for a hostile entity. A rival corporation for example.

A friend of an ex-spouse reporting, unknown to you, to him or her on your activities during a custody fight would be another.