Editing Jesselyn Radack (section)

{{short description|American attorney}}
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| caption          = Radack at the International Journalism Festival in 2024
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| birth_name       = Jesselyn Alicia Brown
| birth_date       = {{birth date and age|1970|12|12}}
| birth_place      = [[Washington, D.C.]], United States
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| occupation       = Attorney
| alma_mater       = [[Brown University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]) <br> [[Yale Law School]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]])
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| notableworks     = ''Traitor: The Whistleblower and the "American Taliban"''
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| awards           = {{ubl|[[Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation|Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow]]<ref name="Jesselyn Radack">"[http://www.cic.org/Programs-and-Services/Programs/Woodrow-Wilson-Visiting-Fellows/Pages/Jesselyn-Radack.aspx Jesselyn Radack] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714171840/http://www.cic.org/Programs-and-Services/Programs/Woodrow-Wilson-Visiting-Fellows/Pages/Jesselyn-Radack.aspx |date=2014-07-14 }}", ''Council of Independent Colleges''</ref>|''Foreign Policy'' Leading Global Thinker<ref name="foreignpolicy.com">"[https://foreignpolicy.com/2013_global_thinkers/public/radack Jesselyn Radack, For championing the rights of whistleblowers]", ''Foreign Policy Magazine''</ref>|[[Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award]]<ref>{{cite news | work=[[HuffPost]] | url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jesselyn-radack-playboy_n_1565151 | title=D.C. Lawyer Jesselyn Radack Wins Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award For Whistleblower Work | date=June 3, 2012}}</ref>| [[Sam Adams Award]]<ref name="GAP Sam Adams">{{cite web|last=Blaylock |first=Dylan |title=Radack, Drake Win Sam Adams Award |publisher=Government Accountability Project |date=November 17, 2011 |url=http://www.whistleblower.org/blog/31-2010/1597-radack-drake-win-sam-adams-award |access-date=January 5, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120115173413/http://www.whistleblower.org/blog/31-2010/1597-radack-drake-win-sam-adams-award |archive-date=January 15, 2012 }}</ref>|BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award<ref name="Wings of Justice">{{cite web|url=http://www.wingsofjustice.com/07/02/woj07009.html |title=BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award, Jesselyn Radack |publisher=BuzzFlash.com |date=February 28, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100404025750/http://www.wingsofjustice.com/07/02/woj07009.html |access-date=December 4, 2020|archive-date=April 4, 2010 }}</ref>|[[Feminist Majority Foundation]] Feminist of the Year Award<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dl.lib.brown.edu/dbdh/bdh_render.php?issue=1261009366316461&div=DIVL14&pid=0 |title=BDH Digital Archive |publisher=Dl.lib.brown.edu |date=January 24, 1991 |access-date=December 21, 2015}}</ref>}}
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'''Jesselyn Radack''' (born December 12, 1970) is an American national security and human rights attorney known for her defense of [[whistleblower]]s, journalists, and [[hacktivist]]s. She defended CIA whistleblower [[John Kiriakou]] and NSA whistleblowers [[Edward Snowden]], [[Thomas Andrews Drake|Thomas Drake]], and [[Daniel Hale]], all of whom were charged under the [[Espionage Act of 1917]].

She graduated from [[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]].<ref name=Savage/>  Radack resigned in protest, and her experience is chronicled in her memoir, ''Traitor: The Whistleblower and the "American Taliban"''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Radack |first1=Jesselyn |title=Traitor: The Whistleblower and the "American Taliban" |date=2012 |publisher=Whistleblower Press |isbn=978-0-9839928-0-6 |pages=180 |url=https://www.amazon.com/Traitor-Whistleblower-American-Jesselyn-Jan-2012/dp/B0108ED3Y2 |access-date=23 November 2024}}</ref> and in the Emmy-nominated<ref>https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/37th-news-documentary-emmy-nominations-wm.pdf</ref> documentary ''Silenced''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Freed |first1=Benjamin |title=AFI DOCS Review: Silenced |url=https://www.washingtonian.com/2014/06/19/afi-docs-review-silenced/ |access-date=27 November 2024 |work=Washingtonian |publisher=Washingtonian Media |date=June 19, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Silenced: Film Review |date=April 30, 2014 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/silenced-film-review-699678/ |work=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=November 2, 2024}}</ref>

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,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://whistleblower.org/press/doj-whistleblower-jesselyn-radack-releases-memoir/ | title=DOJ Whistleblower Jesselyn Radack Releases Memoir | date=February 16, 2012 }}</ref> and is currently the director of the Whistleblower and Source Protection Program at the [[Institute for Public Accuracy]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://whisper.exposefacts.org/staff/|title = WHISPeR Staff|date = February 29, 2016}}</ref>  She has been widely published and quoted regarding whistleblowing, torture, surveillance, Internet freedom, and privacy. She is a contributing writer for ''Salon''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.salon.com/writer/jesselyn_radack |work=Salon |access-date=6 January 2025}}</ref> and her writing has appeared in ''The New York Times'',<ref>{{cite news |last1=Radack |first1=Jesselyn |title=Whistle-Blowers Deserve Protection Not Prison |url=https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/06/11/in-nsa-leak-case-a-whistle-blower-or-a-criminal/whistle-blowers-deserve-protection-not-prison |access-date=13 November 2024 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=18 December 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Radack |first1=Jesselyn |title=High-Level Confirmation That Snowden's a Whistle-Blower |newspaper=The New York Times |date=20 December 2013}}</ref> the ''L.A. Times'',<ref>{{cite news |last1=Radack |first1=Jesselyn |title=A Whistleblower's Inside View of the Homeland Security Nominee |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-feb-04-oe-radack4-story.html |access-date=16 November 2024 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=4 February 2005}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Radack |first1=Jesselyn |title=Cyber Overkill |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jul-14-oe-radack14-story.html |access-date=16 November 2024 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=July 14, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Radack |first1=Jesselyn |title=When Whistle-Blowers Suffer |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-apr-27-la-oe-radack-20100427-story.html |access-date=16 November 2024 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=27 April 2010}}</ref> ''Washington Post'',<ref>{{cite news |last1=Radack |first1=Jesselyn |title=radley Manning's Conviction Sends a Chilling Message |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jesselyn-radack-bradley-mannings-conviction-sends-a-chilling-message/2013/08/02/aaf5865e-facd-11e2-a369-d1954abcb7e3_story.html |access-date=16 November 2024 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=2 August 2013}}</ref> the ''Guardian'', ''The Nation'',<ref>{{cite news |last1=Radack |first1=Jesselyn |title=Whistleblowing: My Story |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/whistleblowing-my-story/ |access-date=16 November 2024 |publisher=The Nation |date=16 June 2005}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Radack |first1=Jesselyn |title=My Visit With Edward Snowden |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/snowdens-courage/ |access-date=16 November 2024 |publisher=The Nation |date=17 October 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Radack |first1=Jesselyn |title=Snowden's Courage |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/snowdens-courage/ |access-date=16 November 2024 |issue=23 October 2013 |publisher=The Nation}}</ref> ''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.