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April 16, 2010

Ex-NSA Official Indicted for Leaking Spy Program Details
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A National Security Agency whistleblower who helped expose details of
the Bush administration’s domestic spy program has been indicted on
charges of disclosing classified government information and obstructing
justice in an ensuing investigation. The whistleblower, Thomas Drake, is
said to have been the source for a Baltimore Sun series on the
overspending and failings of the NSA’s efforts to maintain its large
trove of domestic spy data. Lucy Dalglish of the Reporters Committee for
Freedom of the Press criticized the charges, saying, “The whole point of
the prosecution is to have a chilling effect on reporters and sources,
and it will.”



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