Tom Drake
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memo that was stored in david addington's safe chief of staff slash attorney for cheney in his office safe wow even nsa sent their own attorneys down to get a to get the authorization because they were so worried they wouldn't have cover You always look at what's the cover. You want a lawful order. You get into lawful orders. I know that from the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
memo that was stored in david addington's safe chief of staff slash attorney for cheney in his office safe wow even nsa sent their own attorneys down to get a to get the authorization because they were so worried they wouldn't have cover You always look at what's the cover. You want a lawful order. You get into lawful orders. I know that from the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
You only have to follow lawful orders. Nuremberg trials principle, which was their excuse. We're just following orders. No, lawful orders. It wasn't lawful to break the Constitution. And there's lawful means to update the Constitution. But national security just like had this huge carve out, right? This huge exemption, remember? Exigent conditions, but now it's like permanent. We're now in 2005.
You only have to follow lawful orders. Nuremberg trials principle, which was their excuse. We're just following orders. No, lawful orders. It wasn't lawful to break the Constitution. And there's lawful means to update the Constitution. But national security just like had this huge carve out, right? This huge exemption, remember? Exigent conditions, but now it's like permanent. We're now in 2005.
You only have to follow lawful orders. Nuremberg trials principle, which was their excuse. We're just following orders. No, lawful orders. It wasn't lawful to break the Constitution. And there's lawful means to update the Constitution. But national security just like had this huge carve out, right? This huge exemption, remember? Exigent conditions, but now it's like permanent. We're now in 2005.
So Accelerate Forward, I knew that I became a target, a person of interest and a target as of spring 2006. Back up just a couple of months. I wrestled with this for quite a while after my last conversation, last email with the director of NSA. There was one last route I could go, but it wasn't authorized.
So Accelerate Forward, I knew that I became a target, a person of interest and a target as of spring 2006. Back up just a couple of months. I wrestled with this for quite a while after my last conversation, last email with the director of NSA. There was one last route I could go, but it wasn't authorized.
So Accelerate Forward, I knew that I became a target, a person of interest and a target as of spring 2006. Back up just a couple of months. I wrestled with this for quite a while after my last conversation, last email with the director of NSA. There was one last route I could go, but it wasn't authorized.
I grew up in an era when I became intimately familiar, until I met him later, but intimately familiar in terms of the history, Daniel Ellsberg.
I grew up in an era when I became intimately familiar, until I met him later, but intimately familiar in terms of the history, Daniel Ellsberg.
I grew up in an era when I became intimately familiar, until I met him later, but intimately familiar in terms of the history, Daniel Ellsberg.
Yes. He went through channels. No one would listen to him in terms of the bright and shining lie of Vietnam. A whole other story. He was part of the study that showed it was. But it was buried. It was classified. He, not all of them, there was stuff in there that was quite secret that even he didn't release to the press. He ultimately went to the press.
Yes. He went through channels. No one would listen to him in terms of the bright and shining lie of Vietnam. A whole other story. He was part of the study that showed it was. But it was buried. It was classified. He, not all of them, there was stuff in there that was quite secret that even he didn't release to the press. He ultimately went to the press.
Yes. He went through channels. No one would listen to him in terms of the bright and shining lie of Vietnam. A whole other story. He was part of the study that showed it was. But it was buried. It was classified. He, not all of them, there was stuff in there that was quite secret that even he didn't release to the press. He ultimately went to the press.
Unauthorized, ended up facing 115 years because of government malpractice. They ended up, the judge threw the case out. I was there wrapped by a young teenager, right?
Unauthorized, ended up facing 115 years because of government malpractice. They ended up, the judge threw the case out. I was there wrapped by a young teenager, right?
Unauthorized, ended up facing 115 years because of government malpractice. They ended up, the judge threw the case out. I was there wrapped by a young teenager, right?
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.