"Rather than indulge in what has all the hallmarks of a Lynton Crosby dog-whistle operation, they should act on the local intelligence which they already have in abundance," Spellar said.
The CIA's allies in the Justice Department are insisting in the courtroom that Sterling could not possibly have had valid concerns when he blew the whistle on Operation Merlin by going to the Senate Intelligence Committee about it in 2003.
By effectively blowing the whistle on the operation, Mr Howard has made himself unpopular with some police chiefs.
Mr. Trebicka had told friends and reporters repeatedly that he feared for his safety after blowing the whistle on the operation.
But they are already, by definition, the bells and whistles of the operation, and they don't require tinkering.
The sophistication of Russia's operation, whistle-blowers have said, has made some athletes on steroids appear clean because incriminating urine samples have been swapped out or because athletes imbibed drugs with liquor to minimize the period during which the drugs can be detected.
Australia has not admitted to the espionage, though it did raid the Canberra offices of Timor-Leste's lawyer Bernard Collaery, and seized the passport of the intelligence agent who blew the whistle on the spying operation.
If an intelligence officer is inclined to blow the whistle on a special operation's questionable behaviour he or she, and the journalist they contact, better watch out.
But some agents, troubled by the operation, blew the whistle to Congress after two of the guns were found at the scene of the killing of the Border Patrol agent, Brian A. Terry.
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"He blew the whistle on hundreds and hundreds of undercover operations".
