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John Tye

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John Tye is a former State Department Obama administration political appointee who resigned in 2014 in protest of certain electronic surveillance practices that he later described in an op-ed for the Washington Post. Since leaving government, Tye has worked for the left-of-center activist group Avaaz and founded Whistleblower Aid, a public interest law firm representing government whistleblowers.

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