Foreign Policy reports on Dan Meyer’s recent sidelining as the executive director for intelligence community whistleblowing and source protection, a move that highlights what the article characterizes as the general breakdown of the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The office was created to coordinate work among the 16 different U.S. intelligence agencies, but sources tell FP that the office is “in danger of crumbling thanks to mismanagement, bureaucratic battles, clashes among big personalities, and sidelining of whistleblower outreach and training efforts.” With no one left to talk to intelligence community whistleblowers, some fear would-be whistleblowers with nowhere to turn could be left with no choice but to leak information. A former NSA employee said, “They talk about whistleblowers and leakers in the same sentence. They’re not the same.” 
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