> In all seriousness, it sounds like they're trying to stop another Snowden type leak.

In what way is what she was doing similar to Snowden? Snowden was a huge bombshell, with droves of material, proving what a lot of people suspected was happening, but had no proof.

This journalist seems to have been receiving a ton of "small leaks", of improper firings and a lot of other federal misbehavior, but all within the US, and all with things we already knew was happening.

So rather than "one big sea of bad", she was investigating "a thousand small cuts of bad" across thousands of people who had evidence.

Snowden leaks had global implications that changed relationships between countries, while this seems mostly internal to the US.

Agreed. Snowden also wasn't a journalist but the source himself. Having over 1000 individual sources of information is not at all the same thing.