manning faces a slew of charges including aiding the enemy if convicted he faces a sentence of life behind bars meanwhile the leaks editor in chief julian assange is fighting his extradition amid all of this are whistleblowers being silenced in the u.s. and what is the future of whistleblowing in the federal government susan lindauer a former cia asset and a whistleblower herself join me in our studio early earlier today she told me why she thinks the whistleblowing is being criminalized in the u.s. . they are trying to but it's going to fail because the truth is truth will out there's no way to suppress the truth the internet is so strong that even if the corporate media will not cover stories it is possible now to get information directly from the net and that is why we keep leaks is being threatened and and prosecuted persecuted so badly because they're trying to scare the internet out of telling these stories and it's not going to work we are not going to back down when i ask you...