The two-tiered justice is simply that if you are powerful or politically connected, you can leak regularly with impunity. And we’ve seen the top three past CIA directors — Leon Panetta, David Petraeus, John Brennan — have all leaked covert identities and suffered no consequence for it. And meanwhile, the victims in Obama’s war on whistleblowers have all been low-level employees and people who have been whistleblowers whose disclosures were not meant for the purpose of self-aggrandizement, but instead were meant to reveal fraud, waste, abuse and illegality, and all of whom revealed far less than Petraeus ever did.
Jesselyn Radack, National Security & Human Rights director at the Government Accountability Project. She is the lawyer for whistleblowers Edward Snowden, Thomas Drake and John Kiriakou.
Watch her interview on Democracy Now! today.
