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Jesselyn Radack

Jesselyn Radack represents Edward Snowden and a dozen other individuals investigated or charged under the Espionage Act. She heads the Whistleblower & Source Protection Program (WHISPeR) at ExposeFacts. As national security and human rights director of WHISPeR, her work focuses on the issues of secrecy, surveillance, torture and drones.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth testifies during his Senate Armed Services confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on January 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump’s “new” war on leaks is as old as journalism

Jesselyn Radack
Former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a press conference after being found guilty over hush-money charges at Trump Tower in New York City on May 31, 2024. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Trump is pretending to not know how the Constitution works

Jesselyn Radack
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (Reuters)

Punishable by death: Pam Bondi raises the stakes in the war on federal workers

Jesselyn Radack
President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth leaves the Russell Senate Office Building on November 21, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Pete Hegseth’s paranoia is undermining the Pentagon

Jesselyn Radack
Justice John Roberts and a protest in front of the Supreme Court building (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Too late for accountability

Jesselyn Radack
Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing for U.S. Attorney General in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on January 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump’s circular “lawfare”: Justice Department targets its own lawyers for following the law

Jesselyn Radack
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Director of National Intelligence, former U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard from Hawaii, leaves a meeting with Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) at the Hart Senate Office Building on December 18, 2024 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Tulsi Gabbard’s new anti-leak hysteria is exactly what she once warned against

Jesselyn Radack
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem delivers remarks to staff at the Department of Homeland Security headquarters on January 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Manuel Balce Ceneta-Pool/Getty Images)

Kristi Noem’s bizarre war on “leakers”: MAGA paranoia’s new frontier

Jesselyn Radack
People hold signs during a "Save the Civil Service" rally hosted by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) outside the U.S. Capitol on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

Elon Musk is using the whistleblower playbook

Jesselyn Radack
Julian Assange (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump was prosecuted under the Espionage Act — now he’ll turn it against his “enemies”

Jesselyn Radack
Catherine Herridge and Tim Burke in front of a Julian Assange poster (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Netlix)

Our government’s quiet war on press freedom

Kathleen McClellan, Jesselyn Radack
Donald Trump and Jack Teixeira (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira is nothing like Edward Snowden: He’s more like Donald Trump

Jesselyn Radack
Donald Trump and Mike Pence, in frot of Chelsea Manning and Reality Winner (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump, Pence and Biden won’t be punished — but Chelsea Manning and Reality Winner went to prison

Jesselyn Radack, Kathleen McClellan
Donald Trump | Heavily redacted pages from the government’s released version of the F.B.I. search warrant affidavit for former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate on August 27, 2022 in California (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump can’t declassify documents with his mind — but the whole system is badly broken

Jesselyn Radack, Kathleen McClellan
Donald Trump and Edward Snowden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Don’t celebrate the Espionage Act — even applied to Donald Trump, it’s a dreadful law

Jesselyn Radack
David H. Petraeus (AP/Reed Saxon)

The shocking court case that proves the government’s shameful Petraeus hypocrisy

Jesselyn Radack
David H. Petraeus (AP/Reed Saxon)

“There are indeed consequences”: The case against Gen. David Petraeus

Jesselyn Radack
John Kiriakou (AP/Cliff Owen)

Torture report’s big bombshell: How a glaring double standard was exposed

Jesselyn Radack
The history department building at Brown University, Providence, R.I. (AP/Victoria Arocho/Salon)

Ivy League rape nightmare: My personal reflection of progress — and pain

Jesselyn Radack
John Kiriakou (AP/Cliff Owen)

America’s leak hypocrisy: The double standard for exposing undercover identities

Jesselyn Radack
(AP/Eraldo Peres/Reuters/Mario Anzuoni)

Awards they couldn’t accept: The tragic irony of Greenwald, Poitras and Snowden

Jesselyn Radack
Barack Obama talks with Jay Leno during the taping of his appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on Aug. 6, 2013. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

How to trap a whistleblower

Jesselyn Radack