The Conservative Elements in any organization will want to punish anyone who stirs up the pot ... like a "Whistle Blower" or like people in the Trump Administration ... "Leaking Information" ... with the intent ... of simply informing the Public ... as to what is really going on.
Glenn Greenwald has recently exposed that the reason why she was burned is because the Intercept editors were do eager to prove that they were willing to hop aboard the DNC's Russiagate train.