Thomas Drake
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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This is after I made anonymous contact with a reporter, because I knew I was going to be targeted.
That was a given.
But in April 2006, one of the other whistleblowers, NSA whistleblowers, who actually was the Republican staffer on the HPSI, informed myself and my former NSA colleagues, this is like Bill Binney, Kirk Weavey, Ed Loomis,
that she was a target, because the original leak investigation figured the leak, and this is sort of a classic knee-jerk response by the executive branch of the government.
If there's a leak, even though it's the executive branch, it's usually the biggest leaker of all, historically.
Very self-serving, by the way.
It's not a leak.
It's not a leak if we're leaking, but if it's not us leaking, then it's an unauthorized leak.
They assumed initially that the leak had come from Congress.
Very few leaks actually come from Congress, interestingly enough.
But that's, again, that's another part of the thread here.
So I knew that my time was limited, my time was short.
So I maintained anonymous contact with the reporter for about a year.
But as they were closing in, right, because I knew what they were capable, I mean, again, it's a very interesting, how far will the government go to spy on its own citizen if it suspects that it's, you know,
revealing state secrets that it doesn't want revealed, especially if they involve the violation of the Constitution, of all things, and violating the rights of Americans, especially the Fourth Amendment and even the First Amendment.
Remember, I had gone to the press.
They considered that a criminal act.
To accelerate that forward, they, Diane Roark and the other three, my former NSA colleagues, were raided by the FBI
about 15 months later, so in July, late July of 2007, uncertainly visited by the FBI.
And then, and I believe I'm the last one that was actually visited, which means they usually reserve who they consider to be the ringleader, and they had actually decided that I was the ringleader.
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