Democracy Now!: What the Prosecution of NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake is Really About 27.12.16 18:18 Buchen Sie hier Ihr Flugerlebnis! flyipilot.de JESSELYN RADACK (/BLOGS/JESSELYN-RADACK) Blog (/blogs/Jesselyn-Radack) Stream (/user/Jesselyn Radack/stream) Democracy Now!: What the Prosecution of NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake is Really About (/stories/2011/5/18/977111/- ) By Jesselyn Radack (/user/Jesselyn%20Radack) Wednesday May 18, 2011 · 5:06 PM CEST 8 Comments (8 New) (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/5/18/977111/-#comments) ! 25 " 0 # (https://twitter.com/intent/tweet? url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstory%2F2011%2F5%2F18%2F977111%2F- &text=Democracy+Now%21%3A+What+the+Prosecution+of+NSA+Whistleblower+Thomas+Drake+is+Really+About) $ RSS I was just on Democracy Now! (/user/Jesselyn (http://www.democracynow.org/2011/5/18/inside_obamas_orw RECOMMENDED LIST % (/USER/RECOMMENDED/HISTORY) Radack/rss.xml) ellian_world_where_whistleblowing) discussing the prosecution of whistleblower Thomas Drake, who used to be a senior Message to my Trump-supporting Facebook executive at the National Security Agency (NSA). I'm glad friends (/stories/2016/12/26/1614776/-Message-to- TAGS people are finally paying attention to this case, thanks to Jane my-Trump-supporting-Facebook-friends) Mayer's explosive cover story in the New Yorker ! 232 & 146 (/stories/2016/12/26/1614776/-Message-to-my-Trump-supporting-Facebook-friends) #Democracy Now Mommadoc (/user/Mommadoc) (/news/Democracy (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/23/110523fa_fa Now) ct_mayer), which Glenn Greenwald GOP House Rule Would Ban (/stories/2016/12/27/1614830/- (http://www.salon.com/news/politics/barack_obama/? Video Of Protests As They Gut GOP-House-Rule- #DemocracyNow story=/opinion/greenwald/2011/05/16/whistleblowers) referred Medicare and Social Security On Would-Ban-Video- (/news/DemocracyN… House Floor Of-Protests-As- to as the "must-read article of the month." (/stories/2016/12/27/1614830/- They-Gut- #JesselynRadack GOP-House-Rule-Would-Ban- (/news/JesselynRad… The government would have you believe that this is a case Video-Of-Protests-As-They-Gut- involving the disclosure of classified information to a journalist. Medicare-and-Social-Security- On-House-Floor) #NewYorker It is not. It's a "retention" case about 5 innocuous pieces of (/news/NewYorker) ! 52 & 34 (/stories/2016/12/27/1614830/-GOP-House-Rule-Would-Ban-Video-Of-Protests-As-They-Gut-Medicare-and-Social-Security-On-House-Floor) information that Drake allegedly took home, if at all, by mistake. Dartagnan (/user/Dartagnan) #ThomasDrake His real crime? Committing the truth by revealing gross waste, (/news/ThomasDrake) mismanagement and illegality at NSA. North Carolina Christian pastor (/stories/2016/12/26/1614654/- writes piercing open letter to NC-pastor-writes- Hillary Clinton stunning-op-ed- (/stories/2016/12/26/1614654/- to-Hillary-You- Share this NC-pastor-writes-stunning-op- shouldered- article ed-to-Hillary-You-shouldered- expectations-no-male-has- http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/18/977111/-Democracy-Now…NSA-Whistleblower-Thomas-Drake-is-Really-About?via=blog_591987 Page 1 of 7 Democracy Now!: What the Prosecution of NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake is Really About 27.12.16 18:18 expectations-no-male-has- endured) ! ! 471 & 493 (/stories/2016/12/26/1614654/-NC-pastor-writes-stunning-op-ed-to-Hillary-You-shouldered-expectations-no-male-has-endured) Leslie Salzillo (/user/Leslie%20Salzillo) " Obama said he would've beaten (/stories/2016/12/27/1614800/- Trump? Media reporting Obama-said-he- # dereliction again would-ve-beaten- (https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?(/stories/2016/12/27/1614800/- Trump-Media- url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstory%2F2011%2F5%2F18%2F977111%2F-Obama-said-he-would-ve- reporting- beaten-Trump-Media-reporting- &text=Democracy+Now%21%3A+What+the+Prosecution+of+NSA+Whistleblower+Thomas+Drake+is+Really+About) (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3547/5734372780_5f08bb7257_m. dereliction-again) jpg) ! 85 & 78 (/stories/2016/12/27/1614800/-Obama-said-he-would-ve-beaten-Trump-Media-reporting-dereliction-again) Egberto Willies (/user/Egberto%20Willies) Donald Trump's Post-Christmas, (/stories/2016/12/26/1614793/- Narcissistic, Delusional, Tweet- Donald-Trump-s- A-Rama Post-Christmas- Let's get down to brass tacks. Drake never leaked classified (/stories/2016/12/26/1614793/- Narcissistic- Donald-Trump-s-Post- Delusional- information to a reporter, or anyone, and is not CHARGED with Christmas-Narcissistic- "leaking" classified information. So, what is he charged with?: Delusional-Tweet-A-Rama) ! & (/stories/2016/12/26/1614793/-Donald-Trump-s-Post-Christmas-Narcissistic-Delusional-Tweet-A-Rama) Count 1 - a "Regular Meetings" document that appeared on 91 51 News Corpse (/user/News%20Corpse) NSA's intranet marked as UNCLASSIFIED; Count 2 - a self-congratulatory "What a Success" document that 12/27/16 VUTB am thread (/stories/2016/12/27/1613846/- (/stories/2016/12/27/1613846/- the-hard-is-what- appeared on NSA's intranet, which was declassified in July 2010 the-hard-is-what-makes-it-great- makes-it-great- (but the prosecution didn't tell Drake this for 8 months); 12-27-16-AM-jumpoff) 12-27-16-AM- jumpoff) ! 39 & 108 (/stories/2016/12/27/1613846/-the-hard-is-what-makes-it-great-12-27-16-AM-jumpoff) Counts 3-5 - information that in whole or in part formed the reesetheone (/user/reesetheone) basis of some of Drake's protected communication to the Department of Defense Inspector General as part of their Police And Banks Find New Ways To Steal From Us (/stories/2016/12/26/1614727/-Police-And-Banks- investigation into NSA's gross waste, mismanagement and Find-New-Ways-To-Steal-From-Us) illegality related to a secret surveillance program; ! 128 & 46 (/stories/2016/12/26/1614727/-Police-And-Banks-Find-New-Ways-To-Steal-From-Us) Count 6 - obstruction of justice for allegedly impeding the m2c4 (/user/m2c4) Justice Department's pretextual "leak" investigation into the The Cheetah Is Headed For (/stories/2016/12/27/1614837/- sources for the New York Times Pulitzer prize-winning article on Extinction. The-Cheetah-Is- warrantless wiretapping; (/stories/2016/12/27/1614837/- Headed-For- The-Cheetah-Is-Headed-For- Extinction) Count 7 - alleged "false statements" for telling the truth, Extinction) namely, that he never gave the reporter classified information; ! 24 & 16 (/stories/2016/12/27/1614837/-The-Cheetah-Is-Headed-For-Extinction) pollwatcher (/user/pollwatcher) Count 8 - alleged "false statements" for telling the truth, namely, that Drake didn't bring any classified documents After fifty years, talking with and trying to understand Trump voters has produced nothing. home; (/stories/2016/12/27/1614847/-After-fifty-years- talking-with-and-trying-to-understand-Trump- Count 9 - alleged "false statements" for telling the truth, voters-has-produced-nothing) namely, that he only removed unclassified information from ! 20 & 41 (/stories/2016/12/27/1614847/-After-fifty-years-talking-with-and-trying-to-understand-Trump-voters-has-produced-nothing) classified documents; and ian douglas rushlau (/user/ian%20douglas%20r… Count 10 - alleged "false statements" for telling the truth, CUA Events: Women's March on (/stories/2016/12/27/1614693/- namely, that he never took handwritten notes that contained DC 1/21, numerous sister events! CUA-Events- classified information. Accidentally Offensive? Women-s-March- (/stories/2016/12/27/1614693/- on-DC-1-21- "That's it??" I hear you saying as you scratch your head. CUA-Events-Women-s-March-on- numerous-sister- DC-1-21-numerous-sister- Yup. events-Accidentally-Offensive) ! 24 & 99 (/stories/2016/12/27/1614693/-CUA-Events-Women-s-March-on-DC-1-21-numerous-sister-events-Accidentally-Offensive) These charges should be easy to defeat, right? Unfortunately, ericlewis0 (/user/ericlewis0) he has to do that in a trial where the government has tried to preclude mention of "whistleblowing," "overclassification" and Indians 101: A Collection of American Indian Artifacts (Photo Diary) published newspaper articles! (Thankfully, the judge overruled (/stories/2016/12/27/1614718/-Indians-101-A- the government on all three.) But now he has to contend with Collection-of-American-Indian-Artifacts-Photo- the government wanting to use a "silent witness rule" through Diary) (/stories/2016/12/27/1614718/-Indians-101-A-Collection-of-American-Indian-Artifacts-Photo-Diary) which the judge and jury would use a special code to discuss ! 5 & 2 the evidence but the public would have no clue what's Ojibwa (/user/Ojibwa) happening, and wait for it . the government wants to use Guess which states have already (/stories/2016/12/26/1614692/- classification substitutions for information that is not classified. enrolled the highest % of their Guess-which- populations in ACA policies?? states-have- (/stories/2016/12/26/1614692/- already-enrolled- Every step of the way this has been an uphill battle. As the Guess-which-states-have- the-highest-of- already-enrolled-the-highest-of- their-populations-in-ACA- http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/18/977111/-Democracy-Now…NSA-Whistleblower-Thomas-Drake-is-Really-About?via=blog_591987 Page 2 of 7 Democracy Now!: What the Prosecution of NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake is Really About 27.12.16 18:18 their-populations-in-ACA- target of a federal criminal "leak investigation" (now closed) policies) myself, I know what a David vs. Goliath struggle it is to fight the ! 136 & 51 (/stories/2016/12/26/1614692/-Guess-which-states-have-already-enrolled-the-highest-of-their-populations-in-ACA-policies) government. Drake blew the whistle on government illegality Brainwrap (/user/Brainwrap) (http://popup.taboola.com/en/?template=colorbox&utm_source=dailykos&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=alternating-thumbnails-a:Rightand now he's the one being prosecuted. It's that simple. 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