Thomas Drake

@Thomas_Drake1

An incongruent Divergent. Prosecuted for Exposing State Power. Certain Truths Self-Evident. Question Everything. Defending Life, Liberty & Pursuit of Happiness!

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    12 hours ago

    UK relying on US “assurances” abt is duplicitous. 1) Assurances are unenforceable. 2) There are places worse than the Supermax. Ask abt “Med Ctr” where she was assaulted. Ask abt being put in CMU. (You can’t. He’s not allowed to communicate.)

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    23 hours ago

    BREAKING: loses case to avoid extradition. Basically, the judge is persuaded by US “assurances” that they won’t put him in a Supermax. Huge loss for & .

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    Dec 9

    . has the authority to conduct oversight of all federal agencies. However, most U.S. intelligence agencies don't fully cooperate. Today, we introduced an amendment to put that to an end. GAO should be able to fulfill its mission of rooting out waste, fraud and abuse.

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    Dec 9

    There are still a stunningly large number of people who don't appreciate how close we came to a cataclysmic constitutional (and democratic) crisis on January 6 — or how alarming it is that a number of states are trying to make such a coup that much *easier* to pull off next time.

    Latest: Trump White House chief Mark Meadows turned over to Jan. 6 committee an email that referred to a PowerPoint calling for Trump to declare a NatSec emergency and have VP Pence delay Biden’s certification
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    Dec 9

    Yup, nails it:

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    Dec 8

    In August 2016, Illinois election officials publicly disclosed that hackers had breached their voter registration system in June that year. 8/29/16 1/

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    Dec 9

    "If an official or politician is spreading misinformation, be quick to point it out. Instead of quoting them directly and amplifying it, provide the information that is correct, and report what the official has said is not grounded in evidence."

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    Dec 8

    This ruling is a big deal — the most significant circuit-level ruling yet on the centerpiece of the 2008 reforms to that allow massive, suspicionless surveillance, and with Judge Lucero’s (long) dissent on some of the many Fourth Amendment problems that those reforms raise.

    In a sharply divided ruling today, two judges on the 10th Circuit upheld the warrantless surveillance of Americans under Section 702 of FISA. The decision undercuts bedrock constitutional protections, permitting the NSA and FBI to amass millions of our private communications.
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    Dec 8

    The winner of our International Whistleblowing Award for 2021 is US drone programme whistleblower Daniel Hale livestream:

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    Nov 25

    🏆Join Blueprint for Free Speech for our 2021 Awards!🏆 Our virtual ceremony, hosted by the BBC's , will be streamed on YouTube and Facebook at 6pm GMT on Wednesday 8 December Livestream and more info here:

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    Dec 7
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    I’ve taken numerous IC whistleblowers thru internal channels at , & . Usually, these agencies launch pretextual & retaliatory investigations of my clients instead of the wrongdoing they raised…

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  12. Dec 6

    It’s also NatSec crime to take unclassified info & disclose it to the press if gov’t decides to make an example of you by retroactively classifying unclass as classified & then charging under draconian Espionage Act. Same difference & no penalty for ‘authorized’ classified leaks.

    It’s only crime to take classified information & pass it on to a media organization if you’re a lower level officer or intel agency employee/contractor. If you’re high-ranking, you can, as Michael Hayden said “steal secrets.” And you may leak to your preferred reporters.
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  13. Dec 6

    For all the clutching of classified pearls noone ever charged w/ abuse of classification system. Why classify direct interference in election systems & not inform public or defend the country by alerting election officials? Hiding behind veil of NatSec & secrecy convenient cover.

    Replying to @mvhaydencenter @dwntwnT
    Hayden knows that’s false. whistleblower went thru EVERY internal channel: his bosses, NSA IG, DoD IG, House & Senate Intel Comm’s…The govt STILL prossed him under the Espionage Act.
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    Dec 6
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    Hayden knows that’s false. whistleblower went thru EVERY internal channel: his bosses, NSA IG, DoD IG, House & Senate Intel Comm’s…The govt STILL prossed him under the Espionage Act.

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    Dec 6

    The fact that a top Republican election lawyer just called on his own party to support reforming the Electoral Count Act provides a hook to ask every Republican whether they support protecting our system against a future coup attempt like Trump's in 2020:

    Important: Ben Ginsberg, a top GOP lawyer, just called on his party to reform the Electoral Count Act to avert a stolen 2024. If and when Republicans say no, it will show that they're perfectly happy to see a rerun of Trump's coup attempt in the future:
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  16. Dec 6

    A brave & compelling w/ Scott Pelley of highlighting the personal price she paid for disclosing foreign interference in ‘16 election as a vital public service. Stay for Overtime segments & a Rewind back to Pelley’s interview of me

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    Dec 6

    ‘You watch this film and shake your head. You thought you’d heard it all before, but until The Forever Prisoner, you really hadn’t. It’s cinematic truth telling at its best: compelling, enraging and, best of all, grounded in hard facts contradicting the government’s narrative.’

    Tonite: New HBO Documentary on CIA Torture Has a John Le Carré Vibe , by
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    Dec 6

    👀 A senior National Guard official has accused top Army leaders of lying to coverup a damning Jan. 6 timeline — and the Pentagon inspector general of an error-riddled report. report:

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    Dec 6

    Important thread on the error-laden "originalism" underlying unitary executive theory (and underlying the Supreme Court's increasing embrace of it).

    10/ More to come, but I'll pause on this passage of their self-certainty: The brief says our historical interpretation "is simply a disagreement with the Constitution." In other words, their unitary view is "the Constitution." I'm still taken aback every time I read it:
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    Dec 6

    My new Atlantic cover piece is a warning.

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