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Jesselyn Radack
Jesselyn Radack is a national security and human rights attorney who heads the 'Whistleblower & Source Protection' project at ExposeFacts. Follow her on Twitter: @JesselynRadack
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Views Friday, June 09, 2017 Reality Winner Is a Whistleblower Reality Winner, the 25-year-old Air Force veteran and NSA contractor charged with mailing classified material to a news outlet, is a classic whistleblower. She hasn’t claimed that mantle, which is understandable given America’s love-hate relationship with whistleblowers. They are alternately... Read more |
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Views Friday, April 14, 2017 What Have We Done: Executive Power, Drones, and Trump? The news is rife with President Trump’s threatened and actual military misadventures: in Syria, Yemen, and North Korea. But these military actions take on a new gravity considering the vast and secret powers Trump inherited. Former President Obama escalated the use of drone strikes —including in... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 14, 2017 Is the Vault 7 Source a Whistleblower? It is the leakiest of times in the Executive Branch. Last week, Wikileaks published a massive and, by all accounts genuine, trove of documents revealing that the CIA has been stockpiling, and lost control of, hacking tools it uses against targets. Particularly noteworthy were the revelations that... Read more |
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Views Thursday, February 16, 2017 Alternative "Facts" and the Fourth Estate Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, famously coined the Orwellian phrase "alternative facts" when pressed about flat out lies told the previous day by White House press secretary Sean Spicer regarding the crowd size at President Donald Trump’s inauguration. The dictionary definition of... Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 30, 2013 The 'We Steal Secrets' Documentary on WikiLeaks Is Incredibly Biased Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney's We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks is slick and dangerous in the same way Zero Dark Thirty is. Read more |
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Views Sunday, December 09, 2012 What the New York Times Missed in Its 1st Article on Manning's Torture Hearing [Saturday], the New York Times has its first independently-reported article on Pfc. Bradley Manning's almost cinematic torture hearing. Read more |
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Views Monday, December 03, 2012 Mainstream Media's Sparse Coverage of Bradley Manning Hearings One of the most important trials of the decade is unfolding just outside of Washington, D.C. at Ft. Meade, MD: the court martial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning for allegedly disclosing information to Wikileaks. Read more |
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Views Thursday, March 15, 2012 State Dept. Proposes Firing Whistleblower Peter Van Buren for Exercising 1st Amendment Rights The Washington Post reports that the State Department has proposed firing whistleblower Peter Van Buren . Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 24, 2010 Let’s Rein in Tax Cheats The government’s treatment of UBS banking whistleblower Brad Birkenfeld, who is credited with shattering Swiss bank secrecy and revealing massive tax evasion by Americans, has alarmed government accountability advocates nationwide. Read more |
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Views Monday, June 02, 2008 Report on FBI Interrogations Omits the Lindh Case of Torture Late last month, the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General issued a positive report on the FBI's involvement in detainee interrogations in Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay and Iraq. Read more |