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Radack on Manning, war on whistleblowers
August 4, 2014 by the Chelsea Manning Support Network
In a podcast on Sunday, August 3rd, Justice Department whistle-blower Jesselyn Radack condemned the Obama administration for persecuting and sentencing Chelsea Manning to a 35-year sentence, while the people who actually committed war crimes and torture remain free.
Radack also calls attention to the lack of public knowledge in Chelsea’s case, attributing this to the government’s choice to prosecute whistleblowers in a secret, “closed door” manner:
“It’s sad to me that so much of her case still remains in the dark from the American public… from what was a very closed court-martial in a number of ways. And it’s sad to me that, like a number of other whistleblowers prosecuted by President Obama, she’s serving a stiff 35-year sentence while people who committed war crimes and torture are out free.”
Radack continues by shutting down politician claims that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden should come back to the US to be tried, stating we’ve already seen in Chelsea Manning’s trial how the government over-prosecutes whistleblowers:
“Snowden is not going to come back to the US to face an Espionage Act prosecution because there simply is no public interest defense available So all of the people saying come home and face the music and just tell your story to a jury of your peers have a very romanticized notion of what an American trial is supposed to look like. And what we’ve learned from Chelsea Manning’s case is that these Espionage Act prosecutions are very locked down and it’s very difficult for the public to glean what’s going on because so much of it is done behind closed doors in secret.”
Jesselyn Radack blew the whistle on the Justice Department’s efforts to conceal the torture of John Walker Lindh. She is currently the director of the Government Accountability Project’s National Security and Human Rights Division and is one of Snowden’s defense lawyers.
In a podcast on Sunday, August 3rd, Justice Department whistle-blower Jesselyn Radack condemned the Obama administration for persecuting and sentencing Chelsea Manning to a 35-year sentence, while the people who actually committed war crimes and torture remain free.
Radack also calls attention to the lack of public knowledge in Chelsea’s case, attributing this to the government’s choice to prosecute whistleblowers in a secret, “closed door” manner:
Jesselyn Radack
Radack continues by shutting down politician claims that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden should come back to the US to be tried, stating we’ve already seen in Chelsea Manning’s trial how the government over-prosecutes whistleblowers:
“Snowden is not going to come back to the US to face an Espionage Act prosecution because there simply is no public interest defense available So all of the people saying come home and face the music and just tell your story to a jury of your peers have a very romanticized notion of what an American trial is supposed to look like. And what we’ve learned from Chelsea Manning’s case is that these Espionage Act prosecutions are very locked down and it’s very difficult for the public to glean what’s going on because so much of it is done behind closed doors in secret.”
Jesselyn Radack blew the whistle on the Justice Department’s efforts to conceal the torture of John Walker Lindh. She is currently the director of the Government Accountability Project’s National Security and Human Rights Division and is one of Snowden’s defense lawyers.
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