- mass surveillance regime put into place in the deepest of secrecy
NSA didn't like Drake 'speaking truth to power" - witness various investigations.
2007 FBI raid of house and office (National Defence University).
Indictment
"I was very publicly indicted on a ten felony count indictment, five under the Espionage Act, facing 35 years in prison."
April 2010 was an exciting month:
- April 5th, 2010 - here
- WikiLeaks releases Collateral Murder video
- April 15, 2010 - here
- Thomas Drake indicted
"DRAKE:
My eyes were wide open coming into NSA. Some people have this idea that somehow I was naive coming into NSA. In fact, I was actually--my sanity was questioned as to whether or not I really wanted to join NSA.
JAY: And your first day of the NSA is actually 9/11.
DRAKE: First day I reported. I actually took the oath prior. It was all in processing. But the first day that I reported to my new job was the morning of 9/11."
Post 9/11 US govt operating in equivalent of secret marital law
"verbal authority from the White House, authorizing NSA to start spying on the U.S. on an extraordinary scale, starting with phone numbers and special arrangements of certain telephone companies, starting with AT&T"
" ... eyewitness to the subversion of the Constitution. "
Oath to defend "Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic."
[NSA] "... had what they call cast-iron coverage on the Yemeni switchboard, the safe house. They'd been monitoring that safe house since at least 1996. It's an absolute lie of the U.S. government to say that we didn't know about the two hijackers in San Diego, for example. Absolute lie."
"... when confronted with the prospect of fessing up, NSA chose instead to obstruct the 9/11 congressional investigation, play dumb, and keep the truth buried, including the fact that it knew about all inbound and outbound calls to the safe house switchboard in Yemen. "
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