translation.en: The comeback on that is a couple of things: one, that he certainly believes that as a contractor, the avenues that would have been available to him as an employee weren't available, two, there's a track record of other whistleblowers, like [Thomas Andrews Drake] being treated pretty harshly, by some views, and thirdly, what he was taking on was not one specific flaw that he'd discovered, but programs that had been approved
translation.zh: 主要有这样几件事情： 首先，他肯定认为， 作为一名合同工， 原本可以追溯的途径 却由于他是雇员而是不可用的， 第二，其他揭发者的记录， 像是 [托马斯‧安德鲁斯‧德雷克] 很多人认为， 受到了不好的对待， 第三，就他所看到的问题 并不是一种具体的缺陷， 而是，这样的程序已全被