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March 16, 2013 - 1st Hour
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Thomas Drake: NSA Whistleblower Addresses the National Press Club on Friday March 15, 2013 (1 hour and 2 minutes)

Video link: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/311537-1

Thomas Drake, a former senior executive at the National Security Agency (NSA) who was charged under the espionage act after he highlighted waste, fraud and illegal activity at the intelligence agency, spoke at a National Press Club Luncheon about the national intelligence community and its attitude towards whistle-blowing.

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Daniel Ellsberg on Bradley Manning

Today, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, an organization that I co-founded and of which I'm on the board, has published an audio recording of Bradley Manning's speech to a military court from two weeks ago, in which he gives his reasons and motivations behind leaking over 700,000 government documents to WikiLeaks.
Full article: http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/370-wikileaks/16446-hearing-brad

[Daniel Ellsberg - http://www.ellsberg.net/ - was the original 20th Century Whistleblower with the Pentagon Papers that helped end the Vietnam War... he was called the Most Dangerous Man in America, learn more at this link here: http://www.mostdangerousman.org/ ]

New press freedom group is launched to block US government attacks

Nothing is more vital than enabling true transparency and adversarial journalism, and preventing further assaults on them
Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/17/wikileaks-new-press-...

Freedom of the Press Foundation Publishes Leaked Audio of Bradley Manning’s Statement

Today, Freedom of the Press Foundation is publishing the full, previously unreleased audio recording of Private First Class Bradley Manning’s speech to the military court in Ft. Meade about his motivations for leaking over 700,000 government documents to WikiLeaks. In addition, we have published highlights from Manning’s statement to the court.
While unofficial transcripts of this statement are available, this marks the first time the American public has heard the actual voice of Manning.
Go to this page to listen and download (approx 1 hour of testimony): https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2013/03/fpf-publishes-leaked-aud...

President John F. Kennedy: Secret Societies Speech (19 minutes)

Two years before his assassination, JFK delivered a powerful speech at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. Speaking with the National News Publishers Association on April 27, 1961, Kennedy called for an end to secret societies in government. http://youtu.be/qnEZ6FdE9mE

Alternative video source: http://youtu.be/UmlMX2NNhok