The only job he could find afterwards was working in an Apple store in suburban Washington, where he remains today. And he got crushed.ĭrake was fired, arrested at dawn by gun-wielding FBI agents, stripped of his security clearance, charged with crimes that could have sent him to prison for the rest of his life, and all but ruined financially and professionally.

Drake was a much higher-ranking NSA official than Snowden, and he obeyed US whistleblower laws, raising his concerns through official channels. The first is Thomas Drake, who blew the whistle on the very same NSA activities 10 years before Snowden did. If you want to know why Snowden did it, and the way he did it, you have to know the stories of two other men. What follows are excerpts from the Guardian piece, How the Pentagon Punished NSA Whistleblowers, but you should really take the time to read the entire thing. We need to admit to ourselves what we have become before we can make changes. It was published back in May, and should be read by every single American citizen. Obama.Įarlier this morning, I read one of the most enlightening articles on the subject to-date. This war knows no political affiliation, and has been waged with equal vigor by the administrations of George W. government’s ruthless war on whistleblowers who expose severe constitutional violations by those in power.

Nothing more clearly crystalizes this sad state of affairs than the U.S. We live in a time and within a culture where the best amongst us are thrown in jail, demonized or destroyed, while the worst are celebrated, promoted and enriched.

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