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This guy is no whistle blower....He is a traitor....Whistle blowers don't go hide in China, Russia, Cuba...etc...Traitors do.
They do when they are facing 20 years to life in a Federal penitentiary! What? You think public opinion would save him if he had stayed in the U.S.A. and "proudly" gone to trial in a Federal court? Not hardly. The Federal government has a history of cracking down hard on such activities to set an example preventing similar future acts.
The law is clear and he broke it. The best he could hope for would be jury nullification in his particular case, and that is a fairly iffy proposition. As for fleeing to places with either no extradition treaty or a history of bucking the U.S.A. when it comes to harboring fugitives, did you expect him to go somewhere that would have shipped him back as soon as the Feds demanded him?
The fact the he was smart enough to leave American jurisdiction before blowing his whistle does not make him any less a hero, it just makes him an intelligent one.