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Thomas Drake is a former NSA senior executive who famously exposed the governments illegal domestic surveillance program. While at NSA, he blew the whistle on a multi-billion fraud and secret dragnet electronic surveillance and data mining program conducted by the NSA after 9/11. In April 2010 Tom was charged by the US Department of Justice with a 10 felony count Espionage Act indictment facing 35 years in prison, until the government's case against him collapsed in June 2011.

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OUTLINE

00:00 - Torture survival training

10:41 - Tom's first intelligence mission

18:36 - Nuclear War

38:31 - Being recruited by CIA

48:46 - Top secret Nuclear War protocols

55:56 - The keyhole program & SR-71

01:02:56 - Strategic deception

01:10:28 - The REAL deep state

01:19:15 - USAID

01:27:26 - Working the Pentagon's terrorism desk

01:35:14 - 1993 WTC bombing

01:44:58 - TWA Flight 800

01:53:06 - Military plane training exercises

01:56:18 - NSA's "jackpot" program

02:02:07 - NSA / Google Partnership

02:09:03 - Secret data hidden at NSA

02:21:26 - Government AI program in 1989

02:31:42 - What happened at NSA after 9/11

02:53:57 - How NSA & FISA betrayed the 4th amendment

02:57:28 - Legal punishments for whistleblowers

03:11:28 - Tom whistleblows to the press

03:20:08 - FBI raids Tom's home

03:37:35 - Tracking Osama Bin Laden

03:49:06 - Indicted for 35 years in prison

04:01:58 - Tom's plea agreement

04:14:03 - Meeting Elon Musk in 2007

04:23:23 - Tom's rare cancer battle

04:37:12 - Is America getting better or worse?

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