والرد على ذلك في بضع نقاط : واحد, انه يعتقد انه كمتعاقد , لم تكن متوفره له الفرص التي تتوفر للموظفين , اثنين, هناك تاريخ من كاشفي التجاوزات السابقين له , مثل  تم التعامل معهم بصوره قاسيه جدا , حسب بعض الاراء , وثالثا, ان ما كان يتحدث عنه لم يكن خطأ واحدا محددا قام باكتشافه , بل برامج تمت الموافقه عليها
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