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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/22/how-pentagon-punished-nsa-whistleblowers
[There] is another man whose story has never been told before, who is speaking out publicly for the first time here. His name is John Crane, and he was a senior official in the Department of Defense who fought to provide fair treatment for whistleblowers such as Thomas Drake – until Crane himself was forced out of his job and became a whistleblower as well. His testimony reveals a crucial new chapter in the Snowden story – and Crane's failed battle to protect earlier whistleblowers should now make it very clear that Snowden had good reasons to go public with his revelations.
During dozens of hours of interviews, Crane told me how senior Defense Department officials repeatedly broke the law to persecute Drake. First, he alleged, they revealed Drake's identity to the Justice Department; then they withheld (and perhaps destroyed) evidence after Drake was indicted; finally, they lied about all this to a federal judge. The supreme irony? In their zeal to punish Drake, these Pentagon officials unwittingly taught Snowden how to evade their clutches when the 29-year-old NSA contract employee blew the whistle himself.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday May 23 2016, @01:21PM
I'm not sure about any RPG. I can say for certain that at one point in the video, you see an individual who APPEARS TO BE aiming an RPG toward something on the ground. From the chatter, you can tell that it is aimed in the direction of US troops on the ground. And, I marked that particular screenshot in my mind, because that is the cameraman, with his shoulder mounted camera. That moment in time sealed the fate of him, and all the men with him. The flight crew believed that he was abour to fire an RPG at the troops whom they had come to help.
I never identified any rocket launcher of any type, for myself, but I did count at least three AK's. Others have claimed to count more, but three is all that I have been able to count for sure.
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