Thomas Drake | Americans Who Tell The Truth. Thomas Drake made national headlines as a whistleblower at the National Security Agency and later, as the 2011 recipient of the Ridenhour Truth-Teller award. A decorated veteran of the US Navy and the US Air Force, Drake was working as a senior official at the United States National Security Agency (NSA) when he became outraged at what he saw as corruption and criminal activity within the agency.
Frustrated in his attempts to get answers via official channels, Drake anonymously went to the press with what he knew -- an action that led to his indictment under the US Espionage Act. A computer and linguistics expert, Thomas Drake worked in intelligence capacities for both the US Navy and US Air Force throughout the 1970s and 80s before becoming a government contractor in the Washington, DC area. In 2001, Drake began full time work with the NSA, where he quickly became involved in a debate over a computer program. Save Tom Drake. Popular Thomas Andrews Drake videos. DN! Shows featuring Thomas Drake. Thomas Drake, Salon. Save Tom Drake (savetomdrake) sur Twitter. Thomas Andrews Drake, wikipedia. Thomas Andrews Drake (born 1957) is a former senior executive of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), a decorated United States Air Force and United States Navy veteran, and a whistleblower.
In 2010 the government alleged that Drake "mishandled" documents, one of the few such Espionage Act cases in U.S. history. Drake's defenders claim that he was instead being persecuted for challenging the Trailblazer Project.[4][5][6][7][8][9] He is the 2011 recipient of the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling and co-recipient of the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) award. On June 9, 2011, all 10 original charges against him were dropped. Drake rejected several deals because he refused to "plea bargain with the truth". He eventually pled to one misdemeanor count for exceeding authorized use of a computer;[10] Jesselyn Radack of the Government Accountability Project, who helped represent him, called it an act of "civil disobedience. Biography[edit] 2007 FBI raids[edit]