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Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Chelsea Manning exposes dangers of 'Insider Threat' program-Free Chelsea Manning Now!
Chelsea Manning exposes dangers of 'Insider Threat'
program
The ‘Insider Threat’ program could have thousands of
government employees under total surveillance, reports Chelsea Manning
in aGuardian op-ed last week.
'Insider Threat’ was created in response to Chelsea’s disclosure of documents
to Wikileaks in 2010; It encourages government employees to examine each
other for potential personality traits and motives that might fall in line with
a future “threat”—or whistleblower.
Chelsea obtained a profile on herself the program intends for use as training
material. The document, released by Chelsea to the Guardian,
labels her as “disgruntled”, “ideological”, and having “financial
difficulties”—all of which are supposedly indications of motive.
In her op-ed, Chelsea asses the danger of this, "subjective
labeling". It "could easily be applied to virtually every single person
currently holding a security clearance.”
The program is, “modern-day McCarthyism" adds Jessleyn
Radack, attorney for Thomas Drake and Edward Snowden.
“It effectively stifles workplace free speech, dissent and is openly
trying to deter whistleblowers.”
Chelsea Manning, Guardian OpEd Mar 18,
2015 The US government is heavily invested in an internal surveillance program
that is unsustainable, ineffective, morally reprehensible, inherently dangerous
and ultimately counterproductive. ...Late last year, the ODNI released internal training material that
characterized [Thomas] Drake, and other government officials, as threats akin to
the Fort Hood and Navy Yard mass shooters. When this revelation was made public, a letter from 22 civil liberties
and press freedom organizations decried the government’s “wanton misuse of the
term ‘threat’” and their failure to “understand the distinction between
a whistleblower and a genuine threat”.
Chelsea can continue to be a powerful voice for reform,
but we need your help to make that happen. Help us support
Chelsea in prison, maximize her voice in the media, continue public education,
fund her legal appeals team, and build a powerful movement for presidential
pardon.
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