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Thomas Drake followed procedure, and he got burned. John Crane was one of the bureaucrats involved with that procedure, and he didn't think the burning was proper. So he followed procedure in order to blow the whistle on the burning, so then he got burned.

Unsurprisingly, no one stepped forward for Crane.



Drake got burned because in addition to following the procedure he leaked information to the press which is not part of the procedure.


After he got burned, the press found out. Why does your story keep changing?


That doesn't match the Wikipedia summary. Press leak, then the Bush administration hunted for the source of the leak.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailblazer_Project#Whistleblo...




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