You know the stories of thomas drake, the n. S a whistle blower, jeffrey sterling, the c i a was a blower. Daniel hale, the drone whistle blower and edward snowden, who worked both for the c i a and n s a. I believe it was on the sea ice torture program. You know that the c i a, comes down on whistle blowers like a ton of bricks. And for those officers who challenge them and who are found guilty and the see eyes preferred court. The Eastern District of virginia sentences are getting longer and longer. So what is a potential whistleblower to do when he becomes aware that the agency itself is breaking the law or plotting against a sitting president . Lets say, what happens when a potential was of lower, realizes that the deep state is real and its dangerous pedro or to is a highly decorated former c i a officer in his 18 years and the agency he 18 exceptional performance awards for his work in the middle east, afghanistan, and then the office and the inspect to general working, ironicall
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You know the stories of thomas drake, the n. S a whistle blower, jeffrey sterling, the c i, a whistleblower. Daniel hale, the drone whistle blower, and edward snowden, who worked both for the c i a and n. S. A i blew the whistle on the sea ice torture program. You know that the c i a comes down on whistle blowers like a ton of bricks. And for those officers whom challenge them and who are found guilty in the see eyes preferred court. The Eastern District of virginia sentences are getting longer and longer. So what is a potential whistleblower to do when he becomes aware that the agency itself is breaking the law or plotting against the sitting president . Lets say, what happens when a potential was of lower, realizes that the deep state is real and its dangerous pedro or to is a highly decorated former c i a officer in his 18 years in the agency. He won 8 exceptional performance awards for his work in the middle missed afghanistan, and then the office and the Inspector General working
A highly decorated former c i a officer in his 18 years and the agency. He won 8 exceptional performance awards for his work in the middle east, afghanistan and then the office of Inspector General working, ironically, one whistle blower issues. Pedro, thanks so much for being with us. Thank you so much john for having a show today. The pleasure of mine, pedro, your story is different from the stories of most other c i, a whistle blowers and snowden, jeffrey sterling. And i spoke to the media about human rights and civil rights issues. That was hard certainly. But i think that you did something that was even more difficult you took on a political issue and you did it from inside the c i a. So lets start at the beginning. This is actually quite a complicated case. Can you walk us through it and tell us how this thing developed . There were multiple episodes of instances where i basically spoke truth to power was doing my job in disclosing what i recently believe evidence to waste fraud,