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Jesselyn Radack

Jesselyn Radack (born December 12, 1970) is an American national security and human rights attorney known for her defense of whistleblowers, journalists, and hacktivists. She has defended more people charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 than any attorney in U.S. history, including defendants CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou and NSA whistleblowers Edward Snowden, Thomas Drake, and Daniel Hale. In addition, she represented a dozen CIA and Air Force whistleblowers who made disclosures about the U.S. drone program, including Brandon Bryant, Cian Westmoreland, Christopher Aaron, Michael Haas, Stephen Lewis, Heather Linebaugh, and Lisa Ling.

In addition to her client work, Radack was also integral to advocacy campaigns for U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning; CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Alexander Sterling; Air Force veteran Reality Leigh Winner; and Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange.

She graduated from Wilde Lake High School, Brown University and Yale Law School, and began her career as an Honors Program attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice.

She later became a whistleblower in the Justice Department's first major terrorism prosecution after 9/11. Radack resigned in protest, and her experience is chronicled in her memoir, ''Traitor: The Whistleblower and the "American Taliban"'' and in the Emmy-nominated documentary ''Silenced''.

After resigning from the Justice Department, Radack worked for Alan Grayson from 2006 until he was elected to Congress in 2008. She then became the Director of National Security and Human Rights at the Government Accountability Project from 2008 until 2015, and is currently the director of the Whistleblower and Source Protection Program at the Institute for Public Accuracy. She has been widely published and quoted regarding whistleblowing, torture, surveillance, Internet freedom, and privacy. She is a contributing writer for ''Salon'' and her writing has appeared in ''The New York Times'', the ''L.A. Times'', ''Washington Post'', the ''Guardian'', ''The Nation'', ''Legal Times'', and various law journals. She appears in the press, including on the major American television networks as well as NPR, PBS, CNN, BBC, and Al Jazeera English. Provided by Wikipedia