Whistleblowing

Exposing Government Wrongdoing

The only people criminally investigated, charged, indicted, convicted and sentenced with regard to the U.S.-sponsored post 9/11 mass surveillance and torture regimes are myself and John Kiriakou -- because we held up a mirror and spoke truth to power. Neither one of us participated in, supported or approved torture or mass surveillance.

And yet taking off the veil of government secrecy surrounding torture and mass surveillance has more often than not turned truth tellers and whistleblowers into turncoats and traitors by the very government engaged in criminal conduct, and then that same government burns those who would dare disclose their conduct on the stake of national security.

These actions by the government against those disclosing government wrongdoing are very troubling for the future of our own democracy, when exposing government criminality and those engaged in torture and mass surveillance is regarded by that same government as a criminal act.