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Three National Security whistleblowers fight to reveal the darkest corners of America's war on terror, challenging a gov | dG1fWVpZSmExeGxkcDA
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00:00The first day that I reported to the National Security Agency was 9-11.
00:05This is just a horrific scene.
00:08It was crisis.
00:09The second power, the front power.
00:11But it became clear within the space of a few days that this was not a normal crisis.
00:15Once we were in the war on terrorism, there was definitely a sea change.
00:20I was told that the CIA had begun a program that they were calling Enhanced Interrogation Techniques.
00:27I had a visceral problem with it.
00:32I was hearing very disturbing information.
00:35Even the heads of state in these countries didn't know that we had these secret prisons there.
00:41We would now instrument the United States of America for the purposes of dragnet blanket electronic surveillance on a vast scale.
00:49There is information that the public in a functioning democracy has a right to know.
00:54There's a difference between leaking and whistleblowing.
00:56What I blew the whistle on was government illegality.
00:59I could not live with myself knowing that another human being could be put to death because I kept my mouth shut.
01:08They're now engaged in an active cover-up at the highest levels.
01:12He looked at the file and said, very matter-of-factly, this file has been purged.
01:17It wasn't until I was about an hour into this interview that I realized, wait a minute, they're investigating me.
01:24I'm the one who ends up having to hire a team of lawyers charged with leaking top secret information.
01:31They set the target, they put the bullseye on me.
01:34They said, we're going to make an example of him.
01:36I'm fighting to have my September 10th country back.
01:50We'll be back.
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