Why do some citizens have such hatred for whistle-blowers?

[delrem]

148. No, I didn't just take a "snippet" of your response,

I took the whole of the response that I replied to. Which is:
"As with most national security matters ...
the measure is not evidence that something was stopped, but rather, the fact that nothing (from outside ... the target of these programs) has happened."

That statement isn't something you proved in earlier discussion - it is a simple unsubstantiated assertion, and in fact it's a variant of the *identical* assertion made by the NSA when it claims that the NSA program has stopped multiple attacks. By that I mean the *identical* assertion made by "truth telling" authorities like James Clapper, who rely on secrecy to defend their "truths", and whose "truths" were totally refuted by proof delivered by Edward Snowden's revelations, as has been demonstrated by numerous reporters who've studied those revelations.

But then you're an authoritarian who relies 100% on the assertions of "authority" that whisteblowing systems and protections exist and work -- and as such you put from your mind all the evidence provided by folk like Edward Snowden that those "authorities" are flat out liars. You put from your mind all the research and reportage provided by those who show that your simple-minded belief is false.

You don't like it that Edward Snowden's revelations were leaked. You figure that Snowden ought to have gone through the tried and true system for whistleblowing developed by folk like James Clapper. Notwithstanding the fact that folk like James Clapper have at hand the tools to totally ruin any potential whistleblower, as Edward Snowden revealed.

It's a wretched thing to examine the catch-22 world of NSA, CIA, Homeland Security, authoritarian thinkers.
It's a wretched thing to have to explain this.