Kafka: Gov't Tries Barring Newspaper Articles, Whistleblowing & Over-Classification at Drake Trial

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Kafka-Gov-t-Tries-Barring-by-Jesselyn-Radack-110311-526.html



The Justice Department wants to hold the prosecution of former NSA official and whistle-blower Thomas Drake in a Soviet-era vacuum. Recently the government has moved to preclude any evidence of published, properly authenticated newspaper articles; over-classification; and -- as the Justice Department must be sensitive to the fact that it is trying to jail a whistle-blower -- any mention of whistle-blowing! The icing on the cake is that war-on-whistle-blowers "General" William Welch wants to use a "secret code" to talk about evidence in Drake's case.

What kind of fair and public trial will this be?

In USA Today Justice Department spokeswoman Laura Sweeney defended the Obama administration's war on whistle-blowers:

At the same time, there are appropriate avenues for whistle-blowers to follow when it relates to handling of classified information. People with access to classified information cannot make unilateral decisions that such information doesn't have to be treated as classified, regardless of their motive.

More at the link --

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. The last two sentences sound like removing the pea from the whistle.