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Snowden Honored by Ex-Intel Officials
July 8, 2013
Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence, an organization of former national security officials, has honored NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, praising his decision to reveal the extent of U.S. government electronic surveillance of people in the United States and around the world.
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When secrecy is misused to hide unconstitutional activities, fealty to that oath and higher duty as citizens of conscience dictate support for truth-tellers who summon the courage to blow the whistle. Edward Snowdens disclosures fit the classic definition of whistle-blowing.
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Former senior NSA executive Thomas Drake, who won the Sam Adams award in 2011, has called what Snowden did an amazingly brave act of civil disobedience. Drake knows whereof he speaks. As a whistleblower he reported waste, fraud, and abuse as well as serious violations of the Fourth Amendment through official channels and, subsequently, to a reporter. He wound up indicted under the Espionage Act.
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The invective hurled at Snowden by the corporate and government-influenced media reflects understandable embarrassment that he would dare expose the collusion of all three branches of the U.S. government in perpetrating and then covering up their abuse of the Constitution. This same collusion has thwarted all attempts to pass laws that would protect genuine truth-tellers like Snowden who see and wish to stop unconstitutional activities.
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The Sam Adams Award, named in honor of the late CIA analyst Sam Adams, has been given in previous years to truth-tellers Coleen Rowley of the FBI; Katharine Gun of British Intelligence; Sibel Edmonds of the FBI; Craig Murray, former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan; Sam Provance; former U.S. Army Sergeant at Abu Ghraib; Maj. Frank Grevil of Danish Army Intelligence; Larry Wilkerson, Colonel, U.S. Army (ret.), former chief of staff to Colin Powell at State; Julian Assange of WikiLeaks; Thomas Drake, former senior NSA official; Jesselyn Radack, Director of National Security and Human Rights, Government Accountability Project; and Thomas Fingar, former Assistant Secretary of State and Director, National Intelligence Council.
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http://consortiumnews.com/2013/07/08/snowden-honored-by-ex-intel-officials/
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