Thomas Drake
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874 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Thomas Drake’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I was engaged in a conspiracy with the others,
against the United States of America.
It's just bizarre for me to even say it that way.
All we were doing was upholding the highest and best of America, including the law of the land, and the fact that it was all unnecessary, right?
The best of America was never, ever put into the fight, and in fact was suppressed from being put into the fight.
So I was visited by the FBI in late November of 2007.
a day I'll always remember for the rest of my life.
I mean, this is a man's house.
This is his castle.
It's sort of the final defense against government intrusion.
They did show up with a warrant, although I actually had to persist in showing them.
They had to show me the warrant before they proceeded to actually engage in a full search and seizure of whatever they wanted to find as evidence in my house.
And that began the nightmare.
There was multiple attempts to get me to plead out to many, many years in prison.
I had a criminal defense attorney.
I spent many tens and tens of thousands of dollars in my defense.
But then it all came to a head in April of 2010.
April of 2010, I was unceremoniously indicted under the Espionage Act.
Five counts, obstruction of justice count, as well as four counts of making false statements to the FBI, which were actually false themselves.
I was facing 35 years in prison.
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