The Obama Administration will hold the dubious distinction as the most
hostile presidency towards whistleblowers in the history of the US. The
administration’s unprecedented enmity towards individuals, such as
Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, who were courageous enough to expose
US war crimes, fraud and corruption was met with aggressive
retaliation, imprisonment, exile and ham-fisted punishment.
-- Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, "Clinton, Petraeus, Snowden and Manning: The Tail of the Two Americas" (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).