#288 - Top NSA Official Reveals Darkest Secrets of the Deep State | Tom Drake
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Thomas Drake is a former NSA senior executive who famously exposed the governments illegal domestic surveillance program. While at NSA, he blew the whistle on a multi-billion fraud and secret dragnet electronic surveillance and data mining program conducted by the NSA after 9/11. In April 2010 Tom was charged by the US Department of Justice with a 10 felony count Espionage Act indictment facing 35 years in prison, until the government's case against him collapsed in June 2011.
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OUTLINE
00:00 - Torture survival training
10:41 - Tom's first intelligence mission
18:36 - Nuclear War
38:31 - Being recruited by CIA
48:46 - Top secret Nuclear War protocols
55:56 - The keyhole program & SR-71
01:02:56 - Strategic deception
01:10:28 - The REAL deep state
01:19:15 - USAID
01:27:26 - Working the Pentagon's terrorism desk
01:35:14 - 1993 WTC bombing
01:44:58 - TWA Flight 800
01:53:06 - Military plane training exercises
01:56:18 - NSA's "jackpot" program
02:02:07 - NSA / Google Partnership
02:09:03 - Secret data hidden at NSA
02:21:26 - Government AI program in 1989
02:31:42 - What happened at NSA after 9/11
02:53:57 - How NSA & FISA betrayed the 4th amendment
02:57:28 - Legal punishments for whistleblowers
03:11:28 - Tom whistleblows to the press
03:20:08 - FBI raids Tom's home
03:37:35 - Tracking Osama Bin Laden
03:49:06 - Indicted for 35 years in prison
04:01:58 - Tom's plea agreement
04:14:03 - Meeting Elon Musk in 2007
04:23:23 - Tom's rare cancer battle
04:37:12 - Is America getting better or worse?
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