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Jesselyn Radack

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 Jesselyn Radack  link Sourcewatch Website
(Whistleblower, attorney)
BornJesselyn Alicia Brown
December 12, 1970
Washington DC, United States
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBrown University, Yale Law School
ExposedFBI/Corruption, United States Department of Justice/Corruption
A US whistleblower in the aftermath of 9-11.

Exposures

Ethics advisor Jesselyn Radack's disclosures concerned the first major "terrorism" prosecution after 9/11 - the case of John Walker Lindh (the "American Taliban" captured during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan). She revealed that he was interrogated without an attorney present, and alleged that the US Department of Justice attempted to suppress this fact.

Activities

Herself a whistleblower, Radack includes CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou and NSA whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Thomas Drake amongst her clients.


References


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