Imagine that Beulah is an employee at the U. S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. She files a complaint in California's district court alleging that this bureaucratic agency in charge of military procurement is paying a contractor beyond industry standards. She identifies that the reason for this is because the agency had accepted the contractor's multiyear no-bid cost estimates rather than conducting its own assessment. Following her allegations, Beulah is subject to serious on-the-job harassment by her immediate superior. Despite this, Beulah seeks to expose the agency as a serious case of mismanagement by defying her superiors at office. Her primary aim is to expose the agency despite fear of retaliation. In this example, Beulah is a(n):.