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wait until you hear about the government raiding the home of one of these whistleblowers. we begin with nsa whistleblower thomas drake. >> my name is thomas drake. i joined the nsa as a senior executive responsible for electronic intelligence. 9/11 was my first day on the job. we were in this meeting and it was a rather dramatic moment, particularly when the second plane hit. i remember saying america is under attack. calling out to all the intelligence agencies. whatever you have, we need to put it out there. i was literally charged to be the leader at nsa to find all of

these programs and filter through the data generated and provide intelligence on it, as it was being generated, while protecting the rights of americans. the prime directive at nsa was do not spy on the citizens. and then, as i discovered, to my horror, they were conducting blanket electronic surveillance with no controls, no accountability and oversight. nsa would have extraordinary penetration in terms of spying. i was so concerned. i remember telling my immediate supervisor, what are we doing? it was the most chilling conversation i have ever had. he told me it was all approved don't worry about it. don't ask any more questions.

>> my name is michael. i was the lead system engineer to the deepwater program. >> the federal government is spending billions of dollars to improve the fleet of the u.s. coast guard. >> the massive modernization program called deepwater. >> is is the largest acquisition program in the coast guard's history. >> $24 billion project. >> the deepwater program will provide our nation with a 21st century coast guard. >> but the program has serious problems. >> and it ended up way over its head. >> one day, somebody came to me and said, i go to tell you something so that my conscious is clear. >> they were pointing out the smaller boats that were exposed. some of the men on the outside

would not survive harsh elements or weather. the radios would have failed if they got what. the backup for that radio is a flare. if you could screw something up in that area you were open game for anything else. some of it i found on my own some of it people told me about. there was a point where the boats were not constructed properly. they buckled. imagine then going out in high seas. the boats would fall apart. it just snowballed. if you make a design error but you do correct it, you do not tell somebody about it, and you misrepresent that design problem, now you have crossed into the point of making a mistake to willful intent and fraud. i did not want a loss of life. i did not want a loss of life. the lives of the people doing the rescuing and also average citizens.

the coast guard rescues people in fishing outings or storms or whatever. i wanted to make sure that is something that happened, i did not want that on my conscience. most people might tell their boss and drop it, but that was not good enough. >> my name is thomas. i'm currently an attorney doing criminal defense litigation. i was hired as an attorney at the department of justice and will document what was then called the office of intelligence policy and review. after 9/11, my unit was assigned to talk to the victims families of 9/11 in new york. we were gathering victim impact information, and it was largely as a result of that, that i decided i wanted to do something more directly going after

terrorists. i felt it was my pick your duty to go after the people that attacked my country. i thought it would be rewarding. there was a court at the time located in the department of justice that literally meets in a bank vault so there cannot be any surreptitious loosening of what is going on. we applied for through the court, to listen to people's phones essentially. let's say someone was picked up by our troops in afghanistan the cia in afghanistan, and they had phone numbers in their pockets. and those numbers were listed people in the u.s. with that information the persons picked up in afghanistan, we would go before a court and say here is why we think this person may be connected with terrorism. if the court said yes, we believe there is a probable cause, they would issue a warrant, and the government would be able to gather intelligence, gather surveillance, e-mail addresses, telephones and we could do that

for 90 days. so we were working this fbi agent who had developed probable cause to believe someone in the country was connected with terrorist organizations. but there was a certain, smaller number of phone number that would come into the office that had to be handled separately and given special attention. we did not call it any special code word or name. it was just named the program. i just found that curious and started asking people that i worked with if they knew any of the details about the program. do you know why one phone number is in the program and why one is not? >> basically, i was convinced something illegal is going on. i asked a supervisor and she said that she assume that what was being done was illegal.

>> i knew that if i remained silent, i would be an accessory to a crime, the subversion of our own cost and touche and and warrantless surveillance. i went to the office of general counsel, worked the chain of command, went to the house committee on intelligence. >> they expect someone will see it their way. >> i went to the department of inspector general's office. i was being told it is all legal. >> i spent some time trying to demonstrate to them that these radios needed to be switched out. i utilize the process the way it was supposed to be used and notified everybody, all the way up through the board of directors. the president i was trying to do with at the time, not only had

deepwater but other weapon systems programs. he refused to talk to me. >> he did everything that you should do. he goes to the top people and says these are major problems. they did not want to hear it. >> i am running out of options but my whole thought was, i will try everything i think i can try, then my conscious will be clear. i believe in doing unto others that you wish on yourself. the times when it matters most is when you would most like to or justify that you are doing so. i thought i had a responsibility to keep going with this. i did not even think twice about it. >> there were wiretaps electronic surveillance, without getting search warrants, without getting the legal piece of paper that said you could do that. we took a separate track that

circumvents the normal process and the court. i said really? that is why we are here, to do things that are legal, but to do it the right way catch that people, and we think we are doing something illegal? it is a federal crime in the statute, there is no argument or question about it. it is a federal crime to listen to somebody's phone without getting a warrant. i thought the american people should know and let the american people decide whether they thought it was -- that the government was doing when they considered illegal or not. >> governments are increasingly starting to shut us out, change the processes by which the government. they say, these are really important things, but you just have to trust that we are making the right decisions about how

these powers should be used. particularly in america, that is a fundamentally un-american concept. this is supposed to be government of the people, by the people, for the people, but how do we make decisions about how we want to vote, about the kind of government we like, if we don't know when those governments are doing? >> ultimately chose to go to the press. i shared what was unclassified anonymously about the war is wiretapping. a reporter who wrote for "the baltimore sun" spoke with me. i made a choice. there was a 2006 article about surveillance of americans. that, no doubt, caused a real stir at the nsa.

>> i had recently read an article about the justice department written by a reporter for "the new york times" and recognize she had a pretty good handle of what was going on in the department of justice and thought, if i make a phone call, i do not want to use my cell phone or my phone at home because they could potentially find records of that. i would go by the subway every day, the old-fashioned payphones. i thought about various investigative reporters. i remember picking up the cradle of the phone and calling a reporter named eric. >> i knew i was committed to the top that i took. it was pretty clear my life would not be the same. >> there are people who speak up and tell you what is wrong and

sometimes they are willing to risk their jobs to do that. >> and if they act upon it, they will risk everything. >> it is almost always bad for them. they are the ones who are putting their careers on the line. >> i met him at a bookstore, so i was not connected to department of justice. we had a cup of coffee. i told him i worked at the department of justice and may have some information that he may find interesting newsworthy. i expressed to the reporter that i did not want to turn over what i considered would be classified information, so i would give information about this separate track of cases, and the fact that people thought it was illegal. i initially met with eric numerous times, felt i could trust him. then he brought in another reporter named james rison, who

had sources from other agencies, presumably nsa and cia. he assured me that they would protect sources, was never revealed my identity. that is kind of how it began. i do not really like thinking about that period of time in my life because it really was stressful and it was something that i did not think i could talk to anybody about, and i did not want to involve my family, because they would be worried. >> i believe it was november or december of 2005. "the new york times" ran a story that there was a warrantless wiretapping program. when it first came out, i was undoubtedly trembling, as i was looking at it, to read the story carefully and see whether there was any way that somebody could figure it out, who had revealed the information. my first reaction was, oh, my

god, what have i done? >> president bush is breaking the law by spying on people in this country. >> secret wiretapping without warrants of communication between u.s. residents and people overseas. >> without a warrant. >> they have been lying to us about the program since it started when he was telling us there is nothing illegal about what they are doing. >> they can snoop on you. >> they only listen to americans if it involves al qaeda. >> president bush is breaking the law. >> some of the press, in particular, "the new york times," may the job of defending against terror attacks more difficult. >> we are at war with a bunch of people who want to hurt the united states of america, and

for people to leave the program and for a newspaper to publish it does great harm to the united states of america. >> all of these papers would have blood on their hands. but when we look, we see these threats and statements from the government about what we the public simply cannot be trusted to know, that this knowledge is too dangerous, is actually not true. give us one example where this has caused harm. show was anybody that has died because you told us if any of the documents were ever made public, it would cause great damage to the country. >> you notice there is a high correlation between how secret news is and how bad it is or the people. >> they don't trust us to know these things because it is embarrassing and could affect them politically. but it does not increase the threat to us, the public. it is for that reason that we need to look very carefully and critically at the claims any official puts forward about how

dangerous this sort of thing is. >> i was in my car in the parking lot and i remember thinking, i have to do something else. i tried to think of something that i thought would be catchy. i thought i would do a youtube video. all they were using for at the time was to 10 videos. nobody ever uses youtube as a whistleblower, and that was the angle i was going for. so i wrote a script and i had one of those cheap computer cameras and i read it one time and seems ok. the second one was the take. i want to tell you that making videos like this is not something i do as a professional. i broke all the rules as a professional. to some degree, i was running out of ideas.

the purpose of this video is to ask for your assistance in resolving serious safety issues. after that, i had a listing of dozens and dozens of reporters and i told him that i posted the video. >> i was a reporter covering homeland security doing research on the deepwater project. i took his tips and used that to report. i spoke to the companies involved and was able to confirm individual allegations he was making. it is incredible to see the federal government made such a mistake. then i thought, here we go. >> you can find the most unusual videos on youtube, but one of them has raised questions about a potential homeland security problem. >> now his story has gotten more public attention in just a few weeks then in all the months he

spent rattling the cage through traditional means. the coast guard's own expert warns radius placed in the open boats because they were not waterproof, and a series design flaw that could lead to catastrophic whole collapse. >> it takes a lot of guts to blow the whistle on the largest defense contractor in the world. >> when i brought this information to lucky management, they directed my team to stop looking into whether or not the rest of the equipment met requirements. >> you have provided an enormous service to the public, to the committee, and i think, in the long run, the coast guard. >> i remember people saying, this could get on 60 minutes. >> the $24 billion project has triggered a justice department investigation. michael do court was lockheed martin's lead engineer electronics on the patrol boat. >> we ordered radios for the very small boats that go on the

123's >> that were not waterproof. that is hard to believe. >> yes, sir. >> i am getting ready for work. i look out the bedroom window and i see a bunch of cars pull up. a dozen agents are streaming across my lawn. >> thomas drake, accused of leaking classified information. >> i knew that they had come for me. >> agents raiding his home in howard county. >> my wife and son, i will never forget the look on their faces. my life, at that point, was going to be turned completely upside down. i met the chief prosecutor at a secret fbi facility in maryland where the prosecutor basically threatened me, that i would spend the rest of my life in prison if i did not cooperate. i was charged under the espionage act.

the espionage act has been around to writing 70 -- has been around since 1917. >> after notifying his superiors and getting nowhere, eventually, he calls the newspaper. that is the whistleblower, not a spy. >> by using the espionage act, they are saying not only will we retaliate against whistleblowers, we will try to put them in jail. >> they are going to say i gave information to an enemy. but the reality is, i gave this information to the american public. so if they are the enemy -- >> the deterrent is very great. >> these people face a terrifying situation. possible imprisonment. huge legal bills. >> we were in a whole new territory here and it is a really sad commentary on how far

the secrecy regime and expanded executive authority has gone in this country. >> all it takes is for the government to assert you have unauthorized possession of information >>. whistleblowing is when somebody discloses fraud waste, abuse, illegality or danger of public health or safety. leaking serves no public value. >> 10 felony accounts, five under the espionage act one for absorption of justice and four for making false statements, all of which, if i was found guilty on, would mean 35 years in prison. >> the substance of the espionage charges against drink came with some documents that the fbi had discovered in the search of his resume. there was an innocuous e-mail, one of these rally the workforce e-mails, and there was no

sensitive information contained in it. the government claimed it could cause damage to national security that it revealed levels of nsa's capability. it revealed no capabilities whatsoever. what was secret about it? >> the reasons some classified information leaks out is because there is so much classified information. >> in 2011, there were 92 million classification decisions , four times as many classification decisions as the last year of george w. bush. that is not increased transparency. that is closing the curtains. >> they classified so much information, it has the negative effect of not letting the right hand know left hand is doing because there is too much secrecy. >> the danger is the public would begin to lose sight over what those private people were doing with all that power.

>> classification can be deliberately abused to deny information to others for political reasons, for reasons of precluding embarrassment, and definitely contributes to a lack of accountability. >> security is not just a matter of our ability to conduct covert war affairs or counterterrorism measures. it has to do with having a public that trusts its government. >> the obama administration came to power promising the most transparent administration in history. >> no way to make government responsible is to hold it accountable, make it transparent, so the american people can know exactly what decisions are being made and

whether their interests are being well served. >> incredibly transparent, sunlight everywhere. hope and change for whistleblowers. but all that quickly darkened. i never imagined he would just run with it. and take it far beyond even what the bush administration had implemented. >> when he became president, i think he tipped much more toward being protective of the secrets. >> instead of getting hope and change for whistleblowers the obama administration crackdown on national security whistleblowers much more so than the bush administration. >> they have been using the espionage act to take whistleblowers to court. >> the vaulting that information is a serious issue and always has been. >> they have indicted more people for violating secrecy that all of the previous administrations put together. >> the climate in the obama administration is not good or

national security whistleblowers. >> they want to make an example of me, but in the worst possible way. you can imagine how i'm feeling. absolutely betrayed by my own government. >> at the end of the day, when you make a decision like this, if you are not prepared to have the worst happened and go 100% do not do it at all. the other side, they are getting a new cadre of lawyers who are coming up through the ranks that they will pay to go up against you. >> shortly thereafter, i'm still a dental -- an employee of the department of justice, i get a phone call from the fbi and he said he needed to talk to me. i said that would be fine and that i would get back to him. i put him off and put him off. then invoked my rights under the bill of rights and said i chose not to be interviewed.

i certainly knew i needed a lawyer, so i contacted a lawyer and asked him to represent me. i felt it probably was not appropriate to stay employed by the department of justice, so i voluntarily left. on a beautiful summer day in august of 2007, i came home from taking my son to school and saw that there were 12 cars parked all along one side of the street, one blocking my driveway. i saw my lawyer standing there, who had never been to my house standing in the middle of the street. my heart sunk.

>> 18 agents. some in body armor coming forward, had been banging on our front door. our dog was barking. my wife was in her bathrobe and they were yelling at her, show us your hands. when she opened the door all 18 came in fairly quickly, went to preassigned spots woke up my other kids in bed, told them to get dressed, and my wife was still trembling when i got home. they took out a lot of personal papers that would have just shown i was interested in the issue of wiretapping without obtaining warrants. they asked my family with her new york times reporters had been to the house. they looked for secret compartments, took all of our computers. a couple days after the raid, i remember being in my attorney's office and he said they offered me a plea.

they offered me a plea for a count of espionage, having to do with the espionage act, and that it would contemplate that i could potentially be jailed for a period of time. i did not hesitate to say, no, i was not interested. i did not think i had done anything wrong. they have not gotten any secret documents out of my house. i have not removed any documents from the secret court or anything along those lines. i basically said no, they will have to try and convict me. >> spending tens of thousands of dollars during this time on a private attorney. i have to take out a second mortgage on the house, had to clear a half of my retirement account from the government just to pay for this, plus a number of other expenses. i happened to read an op-ed in "the l.a. times"."

>> when i heard a whistleblower was indicted, i see an op-ed on the difference between leaking and whistleblowing, and discussed his case and why what he allegedly did qualified as whistleblowing, not leaking. >> she understood exactly what was at stake and it turned out well before anyone else did. >> his case, if it were to be one, would have to be in a closed courtroom and in the quarter public opinion. >> she began to strategically turn the tide. >> i said i would nominate him for a prize. >> i did not take an oath to support and defend government illegalities. >> followed shortly by the james armor article. >> if we could get an article in "the new yorker" i thought it

would be appropriate for him to be able to speak during that article. >> dealing with a source who is being prosecuted for leaking, i could not talk on the phone with tom drake. i had to fly across the country and meet people in unmarked hotel rooms in order to get the details. it does not feel like america land, land of the free press. amy: that documentary is called "the war on whistleblowers." we are making it available to you, to link viewers. we are well on the way to raising the money that democracy now and the link tv need to ensure the future of this network. john, thank you for going -- joining us from texas. steve from silverton, oregon. mary from monsanto beach.

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mike: it's a sad fact, more than 15 million infants around the world are born prematurely every year. sadder still...pre-term births are the leading cause of global infant mortality. so what's being done to curb this global health challenge? and later, what is the secret to the fountain of youth? i'm mike walter in new york city. let's take it full frame.