Speech by CIA whistleblower Mr. Jeffrey Sterling at the 17th annual Sam Adams Award event for heroic #whistleblowers on 15th January 2020.
Video by Mr. Randy Credico.
The Sam Adams Award is given annually to an intelligence professional who has taken a stand for integrity and ethics. The Award is given by the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence, 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"
Recipients:
2002: 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 US 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 Iraq War critic.
2010: Julian Assange, editor-in-chief and founder of WikiLeaks
2011: Thomas Andrews Drake, former senior executive of the US NSA
and 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, a United States Army soldier who was convicted in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act and other offenses
2015: William Binney, a former highly placed intelligence official with the United States National Security Agency turned whistleblower
2016: John Kiriakou, former CIA analyst and case officer who publicly confirmed the employment of waterboarding against detainees, and characterized 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, a US Air Force officer who became a whistleblower, leaking material behind the film Shock and Awe.
2019: Jeffrey Sterling, CIA whistleblower
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