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Jesselyn Radack is a civil liberties attorney with the
Government Accountability Project who has been in contact with Edward Snowden. In an
ABC News interview,
she reported that other NSA insiders have been inspired by Snowden's
bravery and sacrifice and have come forward with further revelations
about the organization's excess, criminality and lawlessness. She says
that the Obama administration's war on whistleblowers has backfired,
squandering the administration's credibility with its own operatives and
inspiring them to speak out.
“I think the government hopes to chill speech by employees in the
national security and intelligence fields, especially those at the NSA
and CIA, but the unintended consequence is [that] more and more
whistleblowers are coming through the doors of the Government
Accountability Project (GAP),” said Jesselyn Radack, referring to the
organization where she works as the National Security and Human Rights
Director. “I think courage is contagious, and we see more and more
people from the NSA coming through our door after Snowden made these
revelations.”
Radack, an attorney who has met with and been in communication with
Snowden, said “a handful” of people in the intelligence community have
come forward since this summer when several major international
newspapers began writing about the NSA’s classified foreign and domestic
surveillance programs – stories based on thousands of secret NSA
documents allegedly stolen by Snowden, a former NSA contractor.
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