Buzzflash: Jesselyn Radack Was the Justice Department Official Who Knew Too Much

[demobabe]

A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW

  ...Whistleblowers have been blacklisted at best, and completely terrorized at worst.
       -- Jesselyn Radack, former Justice Department ethics specialist

The Bush administration likes to say they're fighting the "war on terror" there, so we don't have to fight it here. The reality, as Jesselyn Radack makes clear, is that they actually are conducting a war of terror against American citizens here. Like Ambassador Joe Wilson and FBI translator Sybil Edmonds, Jesselyn Radack was targeted by the administration as an enemy of the people. Her offense was simply that she advised the Justice Department about the ethical restraints that applied to their pursuit of "the bad guys." Radack was doing her job, but the John Ashcrofts of the world wouldn't allow that. They feared Radack couldn't be trusted to throw ethics to the wind and keep quiet. She was forced out and given no choice but to blow the whistle on administration lies about the first American citizen nabbed in the "war on terror" -- John Walker Lindh. Lindh was also the first high profile case of "aggressive interrogation."

It happened in 2001. She's still paying the price to this day.

The interview is here: http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/interviews/054

[slowry]

1. Anyone else ordering a copy?

Join me on the no-fly list :toast:.

[TayTay]

8. I got a copy of Jesslyn's book last Dec

Highly recommended. She was really put through the ringer for her actions. It's just amazing how petty and vindictive this Admin really is.

[DemReadingDU]

2. morning kick

[tom_paine]

3. Probably thousands of stories like this: At least the Busheviks didn't murder her

(although it's probably in the works as soon as the publciity and her case dies down)

But in the end: The Busheviks didn't murder her immediately, so they are at least a little different from Nazis

[demobabe]

6. They don't murder them anymore

They don't have to. Just destroy their reputations or otherwise neutralize them. Put them on no fly lists. Harrass them endlessly.

But the idea that these people can do anything they want and get away with so much is frightening. This was within the JUSTICE system no less...



edit: typo

[tom_paine]

11. Under the rule of Nazis, Bushies, and all others in that "family" of rulers

all executive agencies work against the good of the people.

And yes, under Nazis, Bushies, and everyone in between, the Justice system works to increase INJUSTICE.

[Morgana LaFey]

4. K&R

another link about her: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x244866

[dogday]

5. Another story you won't hear in the MSM

They would not dare touch this one, would they? :mad:

[demobabe]

7. kick

:kick:

[Supersedeas]

9. loyalty v. competence again -- The Price of Loyalty

[reprehensor]

10. My review of her book.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/reprehensor/23

[demobabe]

12. This is a great review

Thanks for posting it.