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> "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.




> fierce and heavy-hitting push-back

You mean, the media would start running your ads for free?


Great point, the Streisand Effect would definitely be working for you.

Here is a somewhat related ad campaign, encouraging people with jury duty to refuse to convict people for crimes without victims: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/metro-billboard-ad...

They tried to get this guy for jury tampering: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/20/nyregion/indictment-agains...

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.




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