Episode

5/24 Thomas Drake, NSA Whistle-blower & Jesselyn Radack, DOJ Whistle-blower

May 24, 2012

NSA whistle-blower Thomas Drake and Jesselyn Radack, DOJ whistle-blower, on the government’s intimidation and personal destruction of whistle-blowers.  The Espionage Act, secret signing statements and how Obama has outdone Bush in squashing informants.  Radack is also Drake’s attorney, Director of National Security and Human Rights with the Government Accountability Project and author of TRAITOR: The Whistleblower and the “American Taliban”.  Drake was awarded the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling in 2011.  Your calls and IMs.

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