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The Northerner

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Wed Jul 25, 2012, 04:04 PM Jul 2012

US insist on extradition of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange? War on whistleblowers is heating up



Hearings are underway on the case of John Kiriakou, a former CIA official turned whistleblower. He first told the world about waterboarding in secret prisons, but scandals like that might never break again of lawmakers on Capitol Hill have their say. Congress is on a mission to silence journalists from ever publishing classified information and, in fact, want to make doing so a crime under the Espionage Act.

Jesselyn Radack, National Security & Human Rights Director of the Government Accountability Project, joins RT's Liz Wahl to explain what that could mean for the freedom of press in America.
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US insist on extradition of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange? War on whistleblowers is heating up (Original Post) The Northerner Jul 2012 OP
Shame on the Department of Justice and shame on Congress! n/t pam4water Jul 2012 #1
The more people that Congress throws in jail, the more campaign money truedelphi Jul 2012 #2
And the more money they can get my padding government contracts. pam4water Jul 2012 #3

truedelphi

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2. The more people that Congress throws in jail, the more campaign money
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 07:54 PM
Jul 2012

They get from so many sources. Not just from the private companies that own the prisons but also from the Big Financial firms that now have holdings inside those companies.

It is impossible to have the Elite account for their crimes. Blow a whistle and get indicted. Forget to report a small sum of money to the County and go to jail for welfare fraud.

But somehow the people who are robbing the country blind are immune to any legal charges.

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