Charges Against the N.S.A.’s Thomas Drake : The New Yorker

Charges Against the N.S.A.’s Thomas Drake : The New Yorker

"The aim of this scheme, the indictment says, was to leak government secrets to an unnamed newspaper reporter, who is identifiable as Siobhan Gorman, of the Baltimore Sun. Gorman wrote a prize-winning series of articles for the Sun about financial waste, bureaucratic dysfunction, and dubious legal practices in N.S.A. counterterrorism programs. Drake is also charged with obstructing justice and lying to federal law-enforcement agents. If he is convicted on all counts, he could receive a prison term of thirty-five years."

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   Very interesting when you compare this story to all of the 'whacko' conspiracy theories out there huh? It is getting to the point where the insiders are actually starting to sound the alarm and people are still laboring under the whole "it can't happen here, this is America!" concept. One of life's harsh realities is that the moment you say 'it can't happen here' you guarantee that it will. I am not professing that Presidents Bush or Obama are evil men bent on enslaving the Earth, but the naivety is utterly astounding. Just because they are innocent of bad intentions doesn't mean the next guy will be as well, and we are giving tools to a potential madman that could end this country overnight.