. "The committee, he said, has not done a stellar job of shielding whistleblowers so far.As for the ATF agents of the Houston Field Division (and, for that matter, agents from other agencies such as Border Patrol, ICE, FBI, DEA and so on), the lesson of John Dodson and the other brave whistleblowers seems to be that craven silence is better for their careers than upholding the oath to the Constit" . . . .