Most of us have mixed feelings about “whistleblowers”. On the one hand, we all applaud when the truth is revealed. Heck, most of us “wish” for the so-called good old days when the media was objective.
We like whistleblowers a lot when they reveal things that folks we don’t like do (the right loves Hillary stuff and the left loves anti military complex stuff, for example).
We like it less when it embarrasses out country. People hate Bradley Manning because he revealed some of the bad things we were doing in the war. Many folks hate Edward Snowden because he revealed some of the evil that our surveillance state still does. Many folks have very mixed feelings about Julian Assange.
If we want the truth, the truth that turns information into knowledge, we need to concentrate on the truth and not the messenger. The truth is the truth, no matter what motivations the messenger might have. Read more here.