Thomas Drake
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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because you're now wondering, well, okay, December 2005, there's this above-the-fold traditional print newspaper, above-the-fold article revealing publicly for the first time, and it was just the tip of the iceberg, the existence of the so-called warrantless wiretapping program.
That was an article written by James Risen and Eric Lippow.
I knew when that article came out that I would be no doubt tagged
targeted as a person of interest.
There was even a show for a few years called Person of Interest.
As a source of the story.
As a source, I knew that.
Remember, I had not gone to the press yet, contrary to what the government said later.
They actually framed me to make it look like I had gone to the New York Times, interestingly enough, prior to that article, because they needed to have a certain narrative, their own narrative, to show that I had actually done that, but I didn't.
So I hadn't gotten to the press yet.
I knew, though, when that article came out, that I was gonna be targeted, and a few others, because very few people, remember, this is over four years since the secret surveillance program, which was originally called Stellar Wind.
Remember, it was under the President Surveillance Program, signed in secret by Bush.
NSA became the executive agent for the program.
That's the one that, again, unleashed the full power of NSA in cooperation with all the telecommunication concerns and other companies as well.
to turn over vast, vast amounts of data.
And for NSA, through various other programs, that was just the umbrella program, through other various sub-programs to access all kinds of other data that clearly was going to suck up massive amounts of U.S.
person data as well.
So I knew, because two weeks later, guess what happened?
So it's late December, they announced this massive multi-million dollar national security leak investigation.
I was tipped off in the spring of 2006.
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