Whistleblower Edward Snowden tweeted a HuffPost column Tuesday that he said vindicated why he had leaked national security reports to the media.

Snowden tweeted an article by Nick Baumann that argued that the way the Trump administration had handled the whistleblower report on the president's talk with Ukraine justified why going through official channels was not the best option.

"The political system has already sent a clear signal: Even intelligence community whistleblowers who follow the law can’t be confident their concerns will be heard." https://t.co/yQi8htGGOd

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) September 24, 2019

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Baumann wrote that the administration's refusal to share the whistleblower's report with Congress justified why Snowden leaked the classified information to the media.

“The inspector general then sent it up to the acting director of national intelligence. The law says the director of national intelligence ‘shall’ at that point pass the complaint on to Congress. But President Donald Trump Donald John TrumpFederal prosecutor speaks out, says Barr 'has brought shame' on Justice Dept. Former Pence aide: White House staffers discussed Trump refusing to leave office Progressive group buys domain name of Trump's No. 1 Supreme Court pick MORE and his administration are blocking that complaint,” Baumann argued.

“The basic problem with government whistleblowing, as Snowden noted in October 2013, is that ‘you have to report wrongdoing to those most responsible for it,’” he also wrote.

"The political system has already sent a clear signal: Even intelligence community whistleblowers who follow the law can’t be confident their concerns will be heard,” Snowden tweeted, quoting a line from the article.