And like Lance Armstrong, they'll hold out until the bitter end. In a sense, the only thing that can be done to shorten that rope is to publish more information, either by leaks or otherwise. I'd love to see an ad campaign (billboards in DC, Virginia and Maryland, for instance) imploring government and intelligence workers to leak.
> "I'd love to see an ad campaign (billboards in DC, Virginia and Maryland, for instance) imploring government and intelligence workers to leak."
Would that possibly run afoul of "inciting imminent lawless action"? I would also love to see such an advertising campaign, but I suspect you would get some pretty fierce and heavy-hitting push-back on it.
Those campaigns managed to ruffle some feathers, and got lots of media attention because of it. I imagine that this propose whistle-blower campaign would raise even more.
I've seen hundreds of pointless protests in front of the Federal building in LA (where policymakers generally do not hang out) and one reasonable one, where the protesters out front had signs praising snowden and encouraging the workers inside to come clean about what their employer was up to.
There already is in the DC area. These ads have been all over Metro at the Pentagon station and areas where lots of other defense/government workers get on/off: http://oathkeepers.org/oath/
