NSA Whistleblower

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🗓️ 16 March 2014

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Jesselyn Radack & Thomas Drake are a force to be reckoned with. She is the legal adviser to former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and the Director of National Security & Human Rights at the Government Accountability Project. He is a former senior executive of the United States National Security Agency (NSA) and a whistleblower. In 2006, Thomas leaked information about the NSA's data-gathering Trailblazer Project and was prosecuted under the Espionage Act, but in 2010, but the case collapsed.

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0:00.0	This week on London Real, we have Edward Snowden's attorney, Jesseline Raddick.
0:07.0	Edward Snowden made the only choice he could make, which was to go outside of the United States to blow the whistle.
0:16.0	What we're going through now, people should be marching in the streets over what
0:20.8	NSA is doing.
0:24.0	There has been so much fear-mongering by the government that they've been able to create an entire surveillance state.
0:30.0	And former NSA executive turned whistleblower Thomas Drake.
0:34.6	What I was blowing the whistle on was government illegality, violations of the Constitution,
0:39.6	massive fraud waste and abuse and wrongdoing.
0:43.6	This was raw power.
0:44.8	This is the government saying, you know what, 9-11 is our excuse.
0:48.7	We're just going to get the data.
0:51.6	I was facing 30-35 years plus in prison to send a chilling message.
0:57.0	To whom?
0:58.0	To other whistleblowers, to others in the Garment.
1:01.0	You dare hold up a mirror to the government. If you dare
1:03.7	speak truth to power or of power, we're going to hammer you and hammer you good.
1:10.9	London Reel presents, Jessalinen Radick, and Thomas Drake, NSA Whistleblower.
1:17.8	We just don't do this to Americans.
1:19.8	That's why we had an American Revolution.
1:25.0	Welcome back to London Real. I'm coming at you from the fabulous Old Street roundabout,
1:30.0	also known as Silicon Roundabout and this is the heart of London technology
1:38.1	startup. Hopefully you've been checking us out over at Silicon Reel where every
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