The hate for whistleblowers so prevalent in Democratic circles is disturbing.

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9. Characterizing as "hate?" I totally DISAGREE.

We have a huge privacy problem. People have died and investments of literally billions toward causes important, sometimes critical, to our own wellbeing have been compromised or largely ruined by "whistleblowers." Not all are noble or wise by a long shot. Some are ignorant, naive, arrogant, disgruntled resentful.

Every single day without fail cyberattacks attempt to take down various parts of the interconnected systems we depend on to live. Many of these are trials of weapons in development to be deployed for real in future, others real attempts.

That's only one kind of attack being fended off, but people should know that a cyberattack that took down our entire grid coast to coast, difficult but far from impossible, would kill an estimated 90% of our population within the first year. That's according to a study presented to Congress.

There are many smaller attacks that are constantly defended against, such as elections tampering, derailing trains, technology theft, and on and on.

President Obama started prosecuting these things, not because he "hates" whistleblowers (outrageous suggestion) or because he plans on making himself a dictator, but because our wellbeing and in some cases our lives literally depend on lax security being tightened.