Vaughn Hoeflin Standley v. Merit Systems Protection Board

Must a government employee allege the quantifiability or likelihood of harm to public health and safety to have a disclosure protected by the Whistleblower Protection Act? If an agency publicly espoused its belief that it was covered by a law, would not that make an employee's belief of the same reasonable under the Whistleblower Protection Act? Given that the National Nuclear Security Administration spent Defense funds authorized it in the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act, would not that make it legally accountable to directives in the Act? (i)