Sam Adams Award
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| Founder | Ray McGovern |
| Membership | Coleen Rowley,Katharine Gun,Sibel Edmonds,Craig Murray,Samuel Provance,Andrew Wilkie,Frank Grevil,Larry Wilkerson,Julian Assange,Thomas A. Drake,Jesselyn Radack,Thomas Fingar,Edward Snowden,Chelsea Manning,William Binney,John Kiriakou,Seymour Hersh,Karen Kwiatkowski,Jeffrey Sterling,Annie Machon,Daniel Hale,Daniel Ellsberg,Aaron Bushnell |
| Motto: Truth Wll Set You Free | |
The Sam Adams Award is given annually since 2002 to an intelligence professional who has taken a stand for integrity and ethics. The Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence is granted by the Sam Adams Associates, a group of retired CIA officers. It is named after Samuel A. Adams, a CIA whistleblower during the Vietnam War, and takes the physical form of a "corner-brightener candlestick".[1]
Reward for spooks
Ray McGovern established the Sam Adams Award "to reward intelligence officials who demonstrated a commitment to truth and integrity, no matter the consequences."
The 2012, 2013, and 2014 awards were presented at the Oxford Union.
Scott Ritter speaks
On 4 November 2024, Scott Ritter posted on X:
- "My speech this past Saturday at the Sam Adams Award ceremony honouring Aaron Bushnell."[2]
Recipients
- 2002: FBI agent and whistleblower Coleen Rowley
- 2003: Katharine Gun, former British intelligence (GCHQ) translator; leaked top-secret information showing illegal US activities during the push for war in Iraq.
- 2004: Sibel Edmonds, former FBI translator; fired after accusing FBI officials of ignoring intelligence pointing to al-Qaeda attacks against the US.
- 2005: Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan who blew the whistle on UK complicity in the Uzbek government's use of torture and involvement in extraordinary rendition.
- 2006: Samuel Provance, former U.S. Army military intelligence sergeant; spoke out about abuses at the Abu Ghraib Prison.
- 2007: Andrew Wilkie, retired Australian intelligence official; claimed intelligence was being exaggerated to justify Australian support for the US invasion of Iraq.
- 2008: Frank Grevil, Danish whistleblower; leaked classified information showing no clear evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
- 2009: Larry Wilkerson, former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell and 2003 Iraq War critic.
- 2010: Julian Assange, editor-in-chief and founder of WikiLeaks.
- 2011: Thomas Andrews Drake, former senior executive of the US National Security Agency (NSA); Jesselyn Radack, former ethics adviser to the US Department of Justice.
- 2012: Thomas Fingar, former chairman of the National Intelligence Council.
- 2013: Edward Snowden, leaked NSA material showing mass surveillance by the agency, sparking heated debate.
- 2014: Chelsea Manning, US Army soldier convicted in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act and other offences.
- 2015: William Binney, former highly placed intelligence official with the NSA turned whistleblower.[3]
- 2016: John Kiriakou, former CIA analyst and case officer who publicly confirmed the employment of waterboarding against detainees and characterised the practice as torture.
- 2017: Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who reported on the My Lai massacre, the Abu Ghraib scandal, and alleged misrepresentations of the 2013 Ghouta attack and the 2017 Khan Shaykhun attack.
- 2018: Karen Kwiatkowski, US Air Force officer who became a whistleblower, leaking material behind the film "Shock and Awe".
- 2019: Jeffrey Sterling, CIA whistleblower.
- 2020: Annie Machon, MI5 whistleblower.[4]
- 2021: Daniel Hale, US Air Force enlisted airman who became an intelligence analyst for the NSA in Afghanistan and later exposed the consequences of drone strikes.[5]
- 2022: Daniel Ellsberg, former US military analyst who released the Pentagon Papers, showing that the public had been misled about the Vietnam War, to a number of newspapers in 1971.
- 2024: Aaron Bushnell, senior airman in the United States Air Force who engaged in a fatal act of self-immolation in protest against United States support for Israel in the Israel-Hamas war on February 25, 2024 (posthumously awarded).[6]
References
- ↑ "Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden Criticize the “Decline” of US Democracy"
- ↑ "Scott Ritter speaks at the 2024 Sam Adams Award ceremony"
- ↑ "NSA whistleblower William Binney wins 2015 Sam Adams award"
- ↑ "MI-5 Whistleblower Annie Machon Wins 2021 Sam Adams Award; Prof. Stephen Cohen to be Honored"
- ↑ "DRONE WARFARE WHISTLEBLOWER DANIEL HALE HONORED WITH SAM ADAMS AWARD FOR INTEGRITY IN INTELLIGENCE"
- ↑ "US Soldier Who Burned Himself to Death Over Gaza Wins Sam Adams Associates Award for Integrity in Intelligence"
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