{"id":28654,"date":"2017-12-08T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28654"},"modified":"2017-12-08T07:00:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T12:00:39","slug":"russia-gates-reach-into-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28654","title":{"rendered":"Russia-gate\u2019s Reach into Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Russia-gate\u2019s Reach into Journalism<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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The investigation to somehow blame Russia for Donald Trump\u2019s election has now merged with another establishment goal of isolating and intimidating whistleblowers and other dissidents, as Dennis J Bernstein describes.<\/p>\n

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The Russia-gate investigation has reached into the ranks of journalism with the House Intelligence Committee\u2019s subpoena of Randy Credico, who produced a series about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for Pacifica Radio and apparently is suspected of having passed on early word about leaked Democratic emails to Donald Trump\u2019s supporter Roger Stone.<\/p>\n

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Journalist-activist-satirist Randy Credico<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Credico subpoena, after he declined a request for a \u201cvoluntary\u201d interview, underscores how the investigation is moving into areas of \u201cguilt by association\u201d and further isolating whistleblowers who defy the powers-that-be through unauthorized release of information to the public, a point made by National Security Agency whistleblower Thomas Drake in an interview.<\/p>\n

Drake knows well what it means to blow the whistle on government misconduct and get prosecuted for it. A former senior NSA executive, Drake complained about a multi-billion-dollar fraud, waste, and widespread violation of the rights of civilians through secret mass surveillance programs. As a result, the Obama administration indicted Drake in 2010, \u201cas the first whistleblower since Daniel Ellsberg charged with espionage,\u201d according to the Institute for Public Accuracy.<\/p>\n

In 2011, the government\u2019s case against him, which carried a potential 35 years in prison, collapsed. Drake went free in a plea deal and was awarded the 2011 Ridenhour Truth Telling Prize.<\/p>\n

I interviewed Drake about the significance of Credico\u2019s subpoena, which Credico believes resulted from his journalism about the persecution of Julian Assange for releasing information that powerful people would prefer kept hidden from the public. (I had a small role in Credico\u2019s 14-part radio series, Julian Assange: Countdown to Freedom<\/i>. It was broadcast first as part of his Live on the Fly Series, over WBAI and later on KPFA and across the country on community radio.)<\/p>\n

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