#288 - Top NSA Official Reveals Darkest Secrets of the Deep State | Tom Drake
from Danny Jones Podcast
by Danny Jones | QCODE
Published: Mon Mar 03 2025
Show Notes
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Thomas Drake is a former NSA senior executive who famously exposed the governments illegal domestic surveillance program. While at NSA, he blew the whistle on a multi-billion fraud and secret dragnet electronic surveillance and data mining program conducted by the NSA after 9/11. In April 2010Tom was charged by the US Department of Justice with a 10 felony count Espionage Act indictment facing 35 years in prison, until the government's case against him collapsed in June 2011.
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OUTLINE
- Torture survival training
- Tom's first intelligence mission
- Nuclear War
- Being recruited by CIA
- Top secret Nuclear War protocols
- The keyhole program & SR-71
- Strategic deception
- The REAL deep state
- USAID
- Working the Pentagon's terrorism desk
- 1993 WTC bombing
- TWA Flight 800
- Military plane training exercises
- NSA's "jackpot" program
- NSA / Google Partnership
- Secret data hidden at NSA
- Government AI program in 1989
- What happened at NSA after 9/11
- How NSA & FISA betrayed the 4th amendment
- Legal punishments for whistleblowers
- Tom whistleblows to the press
- FBI raids Tom's home
- Tracking Osama Bin Laden
- Indicted for 35 years in prison
- Tom's plea agreement
- Meeting Elon Musk in 2007
04:23:23- Tom's rare cancer battle
- Is America getting better or worse?
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