US to extradite WikiLeaks' Julian Assange? War on whistleblowers is heating up

Published on 24 Jul 2012 by RTAmerica

Hearings are underway on the case of John Kiriakou, a former CIA official turned whistleblower. He first told the world about waterboarding in secret prisons, but scandals like that might never break again of lawmakers on Capitol Hill have their say. Congress is on a mission to silence journalists from ever publishing classified information and, in fact, want to make doing so a crime under the Espionage Act. Jesselyn Radack, National Security & Human Rights Director of the Government Accountability Project, joins RT's Liz Wahl to explain what that could mean for the freedom of press in America.

Without whistleblowers releasing the secret documents the world is doomed. The only way these madmen that run our country can get away with it is because they do it in secret. Remove their ability to keep their actions secret and we have a much more peaceful and harmonious planet.