Tom Drake

Tom Drake       (spook, whistleblower)
Born	Thomas Andrews Drake 1957-04-22 Louisiana, United States
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Maryland, University of Arizona, Walden University
Exposed	• NSA/Waste • NSA/Corruption • NSA/Trailblazer
Inspired	Edward Snowden
Member of	Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
NSA employee who blew the whistle on their illegal surveillance.

Thomas "Tom" Drake, after many years as an NSA contractor, started work at the NSA on the day of the 9/11 attacks.

9-11

Full article: 9-11

Thomas Drake questions the 9/11 official narrative.

Drake reports:

"My first day on the job at NSA was 9/11. I was immediately charged as the lead NSA executive to find and deploy the best technology at NSA for the fight against terrorism. One of the programs I recommended to be resurrected for immediate operational implementation was THINTHREAD. I ran into a stone wall.

As I pursued what I was tasked to do, I was surprised and deeply troubled to discover that, with a secret go-ahead from the White House, NSA had unchained itself from the protections of the Fourth Amendment and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. The vast power of NSA had been unleashed secretly on US citizens through a massive bulk surveillance program called STELLARWIND, a program completely unknown to most if not all of those working at the SIGINT Automatic Research Center. In the weeks after 9/11, 40 to 50 servers began arriving followed quickly by a whole new set of technical people who on September 26, 2001, turned STELLARWIND loose on all of us.

Even after the developers of THINTHREAD left NSA in October 2001, I kept trying to get it authorized to go operational – in vain. However, I was able to acquire enough funding to complete a THINTHREAD Content Evaluation of NSA databases that contained huge amounts of collected data...

That’s where I found the pre- and post-9/11 intelligence from NSA monitoring of some of the hijackers as they planned the attacks of 9/11 had not been shared outside NSA. This includes critical pre-9/11 intelligence on al-Qaeda, even though it had been worked on by NSA analysts. I learned, for example, that in early 2001 NSA had produced a critical long-term analytic report unraveling the entire heart of al-Qaeda and associated movements. That report also was not disseminated outside of NSA. Make no mistake. That data and the analytic report could have, should have prevented 9/11. Top NSA management knew that. They knew that I knew that. I was immediately shut down."
Thomas Drake

9-11 Cover-up

Full article: 9-11/Cover-up

Drake reports that "In short, when confronted with the prospect of fessing up, NSA chose instead to obstruct the 9/11 congressional investigation, play dumb, and keep the truth buried, including the fact that it knew about all inbound and outbound calls to the safe house switchboard in Yemen. NSA’s senior leaders took me off the task because they realized – belatedly, for some reason – that I would not take part in covering up the truth about how much NSA knew but did not share."

 

A Document by Tom Drake

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)
Document:US Intel officials say Syria NOT responsible for chemical attack	memo	6 September 2013	Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack

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