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Obama unfortunately prosecuted the largest amount of whistleblowers. I doubt he would have done this.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/16/whistleblowe...

Hmm sample size is too low to draw conclusions. 3 vs 8 over several years? Ehh.

But you're probably right for other reasons. He was a bit of an authoritarian despite talking like a cuddly bear. His relationship with the intelligence community is probably what allowed him to spy on the Trump campaign and more or less keep it on the down low for a while.

The gap between what he said and what he did was not small.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSDs3CJAwI4

I'm definitely not saying Obama was an ally of whistleblowers. It seems like he was just mostly average in this realm. I mean, 8 is still more than 3, but again, that might not be his fault, whistleblowing might have just more than doubled. Hard to tell.

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