Chris Hedges and Jesselyn Radack: Whistleblower Daniel Hale

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Dandelion Salad

with Chris Hedges

Originally on RT America on Jul 29, 2021

The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel on Jul 1, 2022

On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks with Jesselyn Radack, lawyer for US intelligence whistleblower Daniel Hale.

The bipartisan onslaught against the press — Barack Obama used the Espionage Act eight times against whistleblowers, more than all other previous administrations combined — by criminalizing those within the system who seek to inform the public is ominous for our democracy. It is effectively extinguishing all investigations into the inner workings of power.

Video and transcript

See also:

John Kiriakou on Daniel Hale and America’s Unending Persecution of Whistleblowers

Daniel Hale Receives 45-Month Sentence For Releasing Drone Documents, by Kevin Gosztola

Daniel Hale Pens Letter For Judge Describing How He ‘Came To Violate The Espionage Act’, by Kevin Gosztola

CODEPINK: Pardon Daniel Hale!

Ban Weaponized Drones

Bless the Traitors, by Chris Hedges

The Price of Conscience, by Chris Hedges

The Drone Papers (The Intercept) (2015)

From the archives:

David Swanson: It’s Absolute Hypocrisy

Four Major Reasons Why Thanking People For Wars Is Not A Path To Saving Lives, by David Swanson

U.S. Army: 0 — Internet: 1 by David Swanson

Biden Defends Ending a War He’s Not Fully Ending, by David Swanson

Drone Murder Has Been Normalized, by David Swanson

David Swanson: How Do You Blow the Whistle on a Whole Society? + Transcript

The U.S. National Bird Is Now a Killer Drone by David Swanson

Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald: The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government’s Secret Drone Warfare Program

Jeremy Scahill: Drone War Exposed + Secret “Kill Chain” + Afghanistan: The Longest U.S. War

New Film Exposes Secret U.S. War + Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars