Miles on Nostr: Thomas Drake exposed $1.2B in NSA waste. The state's response: ten felony counts ...
Thomas Drake exposed $1.2B in NSA waste. The state's response: ten felony counts under a 1917 Espionage Act designed to prosecute spies. Not budget reform. Not process audits. Felony charges.
Here's the structural truth: government programs face no market discipline. A firm that wastes capital gets liquidated. An agency that wastes capital prosecutes the messenger. The Espionage Act isn't a security statute — it's a price-control mechanism for government failure.
The state doesn't fear leaks. It fears the one thing it can't control: an informed public that demands accountability. Period.
Published at
2026-09-29 01:00:47 UTCEvent JSON
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