Be the path you want to see and see that future come to be. Yet, march of fascism on an alarming rise — tightly wrapped in suffocating flags of demise — with unfurled sword & battering shield — full of repressive authority & rank autocracy.
BREAKING: NSA conveniently wipes out ‘01-‘07 mass surveillance data from warrantless & unconstitutional STELLAR WIND program violating court orders in ongoing lawsuits against NSA. Obstructs justice. Destroyed criminal evidence against itself. No accident.
Paging
@Snowden
— 9th Circuit declares NSA program unlawful as intel officials misled, lied & covered up NSA’s bulk call record collection (err, mass surveillance) as NatSecState secret. Some of us charged like spies w/ Crimes against the State for exposing this spying post 9/11.
#SCOTUS
in Clark v Martinez, ‘05 said aliens ARE entitled to due process & cannot be deprived of liberty indefinitely.
Trump is violating the law and his oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution - the Law of the Land.
PSA: Heard claiming I’m prominently behind it w/ my image on their website. However, I disavow ANY connection of ANY kind, am NOT part of their team, was never contacted & they’re using my name w/out my consent or permission in blatantly false advertising.
Brought to my attention that website has me prominently listed as part of their team. FALSE.
Can categorically state I’m NOT on their team, am NOT part of
#jtfmaga
, was NEVER contacted by them & do NOT support them. Leaves major Qs about their integrity.
Intel agencies treating whistleblowers as the enemy within. Old enuf to remember when I was prosecuted under Espionage Act & smeared as worse than a spy because I blew the whistle on mass surveillance programs, 9/11 intel failures & many billions in fraud.
#SCOTUS
in Zadvydas v Davis, ‘01 said "the Due Process Clause applies to all persons within the United States, including aliens, whether their presence is lawful, unlawful, temporary, or permanent."
Just so it’s crystal clear for all to hear. I stand with
#JulianAssange
as he greatly suffers & suffocates in a UK prison with his very life in jeopardy from the predations of State power — while way too many still spout & shout out gov’t allegations against him as inviolate. 1/6
“Julian Assange has a stroke in Belmarsh prison: Fiancée blames extreme stress” | Daily Mail Online — A most alarming development. Years of stress, then 2.5 years of incarceration at Belmarsh & PTSD IS seriously endangering his life. I fear for his future.
Acting DNI Director violated ICWPA by withholding his DNI IG “urgent concern” w’blower complaint from Intel Cmtes. He then admitted under oath he 1st went to White House & DoJ for 2nd opinion, the very subject of complaint, subverting w’blower disclosures & Intel Cmte oversight.
On eve of ‘20 US election, cannot forget
#RealityWinner
as she enters 4th year behind bars as
#Trump
political prisoner w/ COVID-19—for releasing in public interest NatSec evidence of foreign intrusion in ‘16 US election—kept hidden from public as classified & now an open secret.
Today on 9/11 not an easy day for me. To date I remain only person held accountable in connection to mass surveillance regime because I blew the whistle on ‘The Program’—Faced down 35 yrs in prison after Obama Admin DoJ indicted me under Espionage Act for Crimes Against the State
US “…a nation obsessed w/ conspiracy theories. Among rich democracies, we’re an outlier — a country where millions of people are convinced…something is lurking in the shadows & nothing is as it seems.” Highly toxic infecting wide swaths of body politic.
Too many newly minted experts, armchair analysts, TV lawyers & journalists NOT getting strict liability use of Espionage Act in affidavit submission for judicially authorized probable cause search & seizure warrant by FBI at Trump’s MAG-A-LIEgo ‘storage’ facility of last resort.
Must read by
@emptywheel
pointing out possibility of “cascading” Constitutional crisis created by Cannon setting number of traps to prove harm to Trump when she “..personally, created the harm, then used that harm to justify her intervention to address it”
History is not kind & does rhyme — when staring at siren calls by some for electoral secessionist sedition & agitating for civil strife — while desperately grasping to hold on to power while burning the platform down to sabotage, void & nullify democracy.
Once again
@emptywheel
reports out what few will do—calling out rateffers, gilded gaslighters, gifthorse grifters, powermongers & crime syndicate corruption. Here she examines just how far
#Barr
has gone in his coverup to protect
#Trump
as his exec client.
@emptywheel
checks footnotes in DOJ’s bid stay w/ Cannon that likens
#Trump
to a fatal NSA intel compromise. My take? No qualms for Trump to share/sell out docs & classified to cutouts/foreign actors & remains THE NatSec threat elephant in obstruct’n room.
@emptywheel
’s elephant in room tracer —> “It’s..matter of equal justice that Trump be treated with same gravity with which Martin and Pho and Albury and Hale and Marshall were treated under the Trump Administration, for doing precisely what Donald Trump is alleged to have done…”
His passing is personally poignant for me as I listened live as a very young teenager to his public interest disclosures on bright & shining lie of US involvement in Vietnam & later anti-nuke activism. He forever remains my whistleblower father & friend.
Waking up on 21 Oct to this front page on EVERY major newspaper in Australia. All the news hidden, censored, redacted & suppressed by gov’t. A fitting send-off as I leave Down Under today after removal by gov’t as an “incongruent” speaker from ACSC/AISA Cyber Security conference.
And under the Espionage Act, if classified/NDI docs are in a location NOT authorized or NOT in approved or properly protected space/containers then it is a felony for mishandling.
Unimpeachable evidence in
#Assange
extradition hearing including burglary of lawyer's offices, CIA spy op & kidnap or poison. Reminds me of
#Ellsberg
mistrial due to gov’t break-in of psychiatrist’s office & wet ops & gov’t spying on me as criminal & spreading rumors of suicidal.
Wake up, Australia. Your future is at stake.
@suigenerisjen
minces no words on power of gov’t abusing the law, undermining bedrock of democracy while treating press & w’blowers as direct threat to national security state hiding behind secrecy.
Dogged journalism of
@emptywheel
focuses more sunshine on corruption & coverup by
#TrumpCoCon
. “Flynn wasn’t lying to hide what he said to Kislyak. He was lying to hide that he had coordinated with people at Mar-a-Lago before speaking with Kislyak”
Lest we forget, & history is eyewitness, it took one whistleblower to trigger the impeachment of a President for only the third time since the founding of the United States of America — the reining in of the reigning Chief Executive of the Executive Branch under the Constitution.
PSA: Propaganda & disinfo ops are manufactured, but not always formulated w/ outright lies or mere fabrications. The best weave in true facts to deceive, but stripped of context or mixed w/ targeted falsehoods, so message manipulates reality thru substitution as prop projection.
@emptywheel
’s shot —> …”when someone brings classified files home and stores them insecurely, no matter their motives — are the background against which career espionage prosecutors at DOJ will be looking at Trump’s actions.”
Agree w/
@Snowden
& add that we live in post-Constitutional national security world since 9/11. I blew whistle on epigenesis of gov’t super secret ECI program that bypassed 4A w/ impunity & kept secret from
#FISA
Court for yrs. Any notion of privacy sacrificed on altar of NatSec.
If the Speaker is sincere, members must press him, because there is 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 in the warrant requirement that limits the use of FISA 702 for genuine natsec. Exceptions exist for true emergencies: the "72 hour rule," exigent circumstance, etc.
I personally used 702…
”cases...typically dragged out to exhaust the funds of..defendants before ultimately leading in a settlement, withdrawal or dismissal on the merits.” VA open season destination for forum shopping defamation lawfare suits for targeted revenge & retaliation.
“It’s not simply about how our culture continues to shame, dismiss, humiliate, devalue, and demonize women. It’s the injury—sometimes overt counterattack, often gaslighting—that an abused woman is virtually certain to endure when she breaks her silence…”
@emptywheel
makes keypoint that Cannon preemptively obstructing justice to create precedent for dispute of property & upend crim inv’t’gn & jury trial.
“..seems designed to give Trump and Cannon reason to invent..Fourth Amendment harm..where there is none”
TY
@Twitter
& attorneys in filing motion to quash & robustly defend me & accounts listed in fishing subpoena that violates 1A, Stored Communications Act, while attempting to backdoor due process, 4A, use for improper purpose & to censor & weaponize speech.
On this 4th, look beyond fireworks, parades & pretentious patriots. Instead celebrate whistleblowers & lamplighters who warn the people, speak truth to power — risking their lives & fortunes defending our inalienable rights & independence against those who take our liberties away
What is/was Trump’s true intent & purpose for retaining all these unauthorized, highly sensitive state secrets as if he ‘owned’ them & even apparently codeword level docs like it was personal property at his rather insecure offsite beach house?
Access stenographers platforming subornation. MSM “…outlets simply parroted the language of the memo that four judges had ruled to be a messaging project, thereby treating the memo as a valid exercise of legal analysis and not a performance of corruption”
@emptywheel
cuts thru Trump’s cogfog dissonance & shows classification level of docs not a predicate for unauthorized retention of National Defense Information under 18 USC 793e. Clear Trump klept/kept them because secrets valuable for sale, show & trade.
@jabinbotsford
@MyPillowUSA
🚨👀🚨Just a routine White House visit by the Pillow Guy — in a late Friday appeal to Trump —recommending nothing less than overthrow of the gov’t by Trump declaring actual martial law under cover & color of a national emergency while Trump is still President. 🚨👀🚨
Thank you
@TulsiGabbard
for your voice & sponsoring bills revising draconian statutes that would give w’blowers a channel & chance for redress in courts serving public interest. I was signature Obama Admin Espionage Act case & 1st w’blower since
@DanielEllsberg
charged as a ‘spy’
.
@danielellsberg
was once named 'the most dangerous man in America' by Kissinger for bravely exposing US government lies about the Vietnam War. Nixon wanted Ellsberg thrown in jail. Charged under the Espionage Act, he faced 115 years in prison. Here's a clip of our conversation:
Under Seal, Trump Accuses Hand-Picked Special Master of Not Following Orders -
@emptywheel
highlights rather sticky wicket
#Trump
finds himself in, while left holding his own pwned petard, as he attempts to keep it away from prying eyes of public exposure.
Time’s Up on my silence.
@Twitter
noticed me on subpoena for my info from defamation ambulance chaser Steven Biss in lawsuit against
@JesselynRadack
. Sent objection on advice
@AnneChampion1
in defense of my 1A & 4A rights. This lawfare action weaponizes speech & online harassment
@emptywheel
cogently points out TrumpCONundrum on EO. “..it’s also a concession that he is bound by everything in the EO…whole bunch of things Trump concedes when he concedes that point (including that classified information must be kept secure).”
@emptywheel
describes ex-mil Jan6er who brought home & hoarded classified docs & faces 793e trial. Also discusses complexities of Espionage Act trial & use of Silent Witness Rule where jury sees class info. May serve as template facing Trump IF DoJ indicts
If
#Assange
extradited to US a conviction on ANY Espionage Act charges would set precedent where US could criminally target ANY reporter, journalist, citizen blogger or publisher disclosing ANY unauthorized info (even if exposing wrongdoing) from insiders.
Meanwhile
#RealityWinner
is in prison after gov’t charged her under Espionage Act for sharing National Security evidence of Russian interference in ‘16 presidential election infrastructure w/ press. US considered this evidence a state secret as voting public did not need to know.
Quite clear Trump took a BUNCH of docs & brought them to Mar-a-Lago.
Key question though — Why wasn’t possible/probable NDI, classified, super sensitive & secret SAP/SAR & even codeword material left behind & properly protected?
Huge kudos to
@JasonLeopold
for persisting. I blew whistle on original lawbreaking mass surveillance regime called “The Program” approved by Bush after 9/11. It metastasized, changed names & had a # sub programs. But someone approved this as off the books ‘protected’ by EO 12333.
Truthtellers as eyewitnesses of history: “Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring.”—Nuremberg 1945
Bush receiving Liberty Medal? Old enuf to remember when Bush didn’t prevent 9/11 but after 9/11 authorized secret mass surveillance, torture & utter tragedy of Iraq & Afghanistan. Then opened up criminal investigation of me for blowing whistle on his Admin
#RealityWinner
turned into criminal as
#Trump
Admin sig Espionage case blowing whistle on ‘16 election interference kept secret by gov’t failing to provide for common defense of
#WeThePeople
. Only she was punished & imprisoned. I
#StandWithReality
Do You?
Where is your political courage? This young Vet deserves your voice. She warned about interference into the 2016 Presidential election when NO ONE else would. Say her name or go down in history as a freakin coward! This young woman is a Patriot!
I am standing up for
#RealityWinner
— a truthteller who held up mirror to power for allegedly going to the press w/ evidence of foreign interference in US election system. Charged under Espionage Act for public interest disclosure=crime against the State.
Reality Winner has been in jail for a full year without being convicted of a crime. Her trial has been pushed back multiple times and is now on the docket for October 2018. It’s anyone’s guess whether the case will drag on even longer.
After SolarWinds breach, lawmakers now asking NSA about cracking Juniper cold case. Good luck. One of most closely guarded NSA secrets are its corporate connections & even deeper secrecy protecting cooperative agreements on access via backdoors & sidedoors
What
#Assange
“is accused of doing is exactly what professional journalists do every day -- seeking, receiving and publishing important information” about gov’t —
#Trump
Admin now using Espionage Act as defacto Official Secrets act criminalizing journalism
I stand w/
#RealityWinner
imprisoned for press disclosures on foreign intrusion in US election system. No one in Congress speaks up for her like no one in Congress spoke up for me. We must be her voice for freedoms she lost defending them for We the People
Today, Reality winner lives in prison. She sleeps on a metal rack and wakes up every morning knowing that not one person in our Congress has spoken up for her act of bravery. She knows that not one candidate has uttered her name. How is this possible? How will she maintain hope?
However, in the Espionage Act what is called National Defense Information (NDI) does NOT require that the docs are classified at all — just what the gov’t defines as NDI. This is a really critical point.
Just watched
#DontLookUp
— a brilliant metaphor & paralleling tragic parody on the state of the US plus lots of comedic satire on society, technology and social media and so much more—including vacuous virtue signaling w/ face palm down in pending event horizon. cc:
@davidsirota
@Grady_Booch
There’s also a disturbingly large set of national security acolytes believing more & more reams of warrantless data piled into massive digital haystacks collected for surveillance purposes & analyzed by AI — will magically enable threat & pre-crime profiling of people in society.
Yet Obama DoJ used prosecutorial discretion & charged me w/ willful violation of Espionage Act for unclass disclosures gov’t retro-classified w/ no evidence I gravely harmed NatSec after blowing whistle on 9/11 intel failures,$Bs in fraud&mass surveillance
DOJ decision not to charge
@Comey
is no surprise. OIG report shows his memos were classified retroactively, negating any willful violation of the law at the time of disclosure. And no evidence of intent to harm the national security of the United States. Quite the opposite.
…then Trump turns into an immediate & direct 5 alarm ‘keys to the classified castle’ counter intelligence (CI) problem & national security threat that would give “high crimes & misdemeanors” a whole new meaning under the Espionage Act.
Beyond politics & personalities, critical to focus on
#Assange
’s legal status. Former Consul of Ecuador in UK provides much needed perspective on
#Assange
& impact on Ecuador’s standing & violation of international law, IF
#Assange
’s asylum were withdrawn.
@emptywheel
strips clean prop & disinfo op of
#Trump
Admin & Company—“Not just an attempt to lie about...sanity of the decision to reopen the economy...” but also “...an attempt to lie about the stupidity of the economic decisions Trump made, too.”
Look — Admittedly still having flashbacks with all the search & seizure fallout continuing to dominate the news after FBI’s warranted visit to Trump’s primary residence. Why?
@LYHITM
@WhoPaysBiss
@Cheshire3301
He looks stupid on his own. I’m entitled to complain about having my life upended by crazy people who create insane conspiracy theories, use elected public office to share them with the world, and sue me for $250,000,000 while making these claims.🐮
Gov’t stating
#Assange
is no journalist is same when gov’t stated I was no whistleblower. So media, will you keep parroting gov’t line to save yourselves if you don’t criticize gov’t directly, bcuz you do US journalism? Get real. You publish ‘secrets’ too.
Top lawyer for
@nytimes
on any prosecution of
@JuIianAssange
&
@wikileaks
— “...a very, very bad precedent for publishers... I think the law would have a very hard time drawing a distinction between The New York Times and WikiLeaks.”
@emptywheel
cuts to chase of brazen lies issued by AG Barr enabled by autocratic exec orders from
#Trump
to usurp due process—turn DoJ into loyalist
#Trump
defender, interfere w/ & obstruct judiciary & attack Judge threatened w/ violence by Stone.
Travesty. Gov’t playing w/
#RealityWinner
’s life medically compromised & faces major COVID outbreak where imprisoned. She’s signature espionage case under
#Trump
for exposing evidence of foreign interference in ‘16 election kept secret by gov’t. Call for her
#CompassionateRelease
Who we are as We the People requires us to resist abuse of power. History of liberty & freedom demand nothing less. I call on the brave to stand up & disclose wrongdoing & violations of law as fellow w’blowers.
cc:
@Snowden
@DanielEllsberg
@JesselynRadack
Kudos to
@theJuiceMedia
for brilliant use of brutal satire that holds up devastatingly honest mirrors that strip aside utter hypocrisy of political authorities & abusers of power while revealing their true nature—while still making ugly realities humorous.
1st day of
#Assange
extradition hearings in UK an utter travesty of justice. It’s a staged show trial led by
#Trump
DoJ as Assange stands accused as ‘Enemy of the People’ & as ‘Enemy of the State’. Any due process be damned. Already a truly Kafkaesque NatSecStar chamber mistrial.
@shanvav
@Snowden
Hey
@Snowden
— Wonder what Chris Inglis’s take is on me, given he & I worked for NSA SIGINT Director where I blew whistle on epigenesis of mass surveillance regime & state secret STELLARWIND program thru all proper channels & Congress? 🤔 Asking for a friend. cc:
@JesselynRadack
Devin Nunes sues Washington Post over RU intel report. Steven Biss is his attorney. Says Nunes a victim of defamation or conspiracy. Also alleges that Nunes “suffered insult, pain, embarrassment, humiliation and mental suffering because of the news story.”
I know because I lived the reality on receiving end of a profoundly debilitating 10 count Espionage Act-based 18 USC 793e felony indictment, even though all docs were unclassified & also authorized & cleared by security for approved removal from NSA.
I wouldn’t be a free man who faced down many decades in prison calling out gov’t crimes & wrongdoing w/out the zealous & indefatigable voice, advocacy & defense provided by
@JesselynRadack
& her team. If you care about
#whistleblowers
, PLEASE support them.