In recent weeks the press has published harrowing details about the Obama Administration's drone and cyber-warfare campaigns, including President Obama's personal selection of suspected terrorists for inclusion in a CIA kill list. Outraged members of the U.S. Senate are now calling for hearings - not to investigate the exponential growth of an assassination program by an increasingly unaccountable executive branch, but to find and punish the leakers.
With Thomas Drake, a former senior executive at the National Security Agency and whistleblower who was prosecuted by the Obama Administration under the 1917 Espionage Act.
Radio interview by Amy Grunder, first aired live on "Sounds of Dissent" on WZBC 90.3 FM Boston on 2012-06-09.
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