“Van Jones, a former White House special advisor, blasted President Barack Obama on Wednesday for cracking down on whistleblowers. ‘First of all, we do have a domestic spying program, and what we need to be able to do is figure out how to balance these things, not pretend like there’s no balancing to be done.’ ‘He said that if somebody like Snowden wanted to be a whistle-blower, they could have gone ahead. Well, hold on a second, sir. That is — you are right now prosecuting more whistleblowers – not only than any American president, that every American president combined!’”
