Thomas Drake · @Thomas_Drake1
1st Mar 2014 from TwitLonger
@MarkSZaidEsq I watched the Georgetown event video from 25 Feb 2014 where you launch on @JesselynRadack just after the 3 hour 20 minute mark at the beginning of the Q&A for the panel.
http://apps.law.georgetown.edu/webcasts/eventDetail.cfm?eventID=2275
You really do your profession a disservice.
Instead of contacting Jesselyn in private with your concerns, you deliberately chose to unleash your animus and air your own personal polemic against her at a public event and then attack her credentials and standing as one of the leading representing attorneys and advocates for whistleblowers, as well as her clients, with outright lies, deliberate distortions and gross misrepresentations.
Also clear that you referenced privileged court information never made public and then have the gall to state you read it and then simply issue your judgement that it proves John Kiriakou is no whistleblower.
Where do you get off making yourself prosecutor, judge and jury?
You clearly want to paint her clients as really leakers of state secrets and not whistleblowers, thereby conveniently undermining her defense of whistleblowers because apparently her clients have caused grave (or even exceptionally grave) damage to the national security of the United States.
Let me be clear. Jesselyn got the gravity of the Obama Administration’s unprecedented, relentless and ruthless war on truth tellers and whistleblowers before anybody else did.
After 4 years of enduring a national security criminal 'leak' investigation against me, I faced the excruciating ordeal of upwards of 35 years in prison in a 10 felony count indictment issued against me by the Department of Justice with the government casting me as as an enemy of the state after I ended up with public defenders, taking on and tackling, under very challenging circumstances and Espionage Act charges, main Justice attorneys), because I was declared indigent before the Court, with no other criminal defense attorneys (or firm) coming forward to defend me pro bono.
For the next 14 months Jesselyn was my voice when I had none and led my defense in the court of public opinion with superb acumen and skill. She was singularly instrumental in turning the government meme around that I was a leaker of state secrets causing exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the United States (per the DoJ prosecutors I was worse than a spy and endangered the lives of American soldiers and would have blood on my hands), into a whistleblower who had exposed massive multi-billion dollar fraud, waste, and abuse as well as wrongdoing, illegality and warrantless violations of the Constitution and the privacy of people through secret mass surveillance.
No other organization, law firm (including yours), or attorney filed a friend of the court brief except the Government Accountability Project, and Jesselyn was the lead on that amicus brief accepted by the Judge as the first action he took during the final motions hearings the end of March 2011 held in public.
Your self-conflating public ego massaging speaks volumes regarding your biases and plays right into a proxy apologia and defense of the national security State against anyone who would dare question or speak truth to or of power when the government has turned public interest whistleblowing and truth telling into crimes against the state for holding up the mirror on state sponsored torture, mass surveillance and gov’t wrongdoing and illegality.
I find your behavior disturbingly juvenile, professionally unconscionable and conduct unbecoming a lawyer.
I know Jesselyn Radack and you are no Jesselyn Radack.