Jesselyn Radack, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Jesselyn Radack

American whistleblower

Date of Birth: 12-Dec-1970

Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States

Profession: jurist, human rights activist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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About Jesselyn Radack

  • Jesselyn Radack (born December 12, 1970) is an American national security and human rights attorney known for her defense of whistleblowers, journalists, and hacktivists, including National Security Agency whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Thomas Drake, each of whom was charged under the Espionage Act of 1917. While at the Justice Department, she disclosed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) committed an ethics violation in their interrogation of John Walker Lindh (the "American Taliban" captured during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan) without an attorney present, and alleged that the Department of Justice attempted to suppress that information.
  • The Lindh case was the first major terrorism prosecution after 9/11.
  • Her experience is chronicled in her memoir, TRAITOR: The Whistleblower and the "American Taliban" and the documentary Silenced. Radack has been widely published and quoted regarding whistleblower, surveillance, Internet freedom and privacy.
  • Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, L.A.
  • Times, Washington Post, Guardian, The Nation, Legal Times, and numerous law journals.
  • She frequently appears in the press, including all the major television networks, NPR, PBS, CNN, Al jazeera and the BBC. Radack is the director of National Security & Human Rights at ExposeFacts' Whistleblower and Source Protection Program.
  • She was named one of Foreign Policy magazine's "100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2013", was one of 100 figures pictured in "Justice: Faces of the Human Rights Revolution", and was a visiting Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow from 2014 to 2016.
  • She has received the "Hugh M.
  • Hefner First Amendment Award" (2011) and the "Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence" (2009).
  • She graduated from Brown University and Yale Law School and began her career as an Honors Program attorney at the U.S.
  • Department of Justice.

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