Danny Jones interviews Thomas Drake

For those who don't remember, Thomas Drake worked for various intelligence agencies, including the NSA. After 9/11 he blew the whistle on illegal domestic surveillance programs by the NSA such as Stellar Wind. Drake exposed these programs roughly a decade before Edward Snowden came along.

During this nearly 5 hour interview, Drake details his life in the military and then the intelligence community and how his life changed drastically post 9/11, providing more detail than he ever has in previous interviews.

Top NSA Official Reveals Darkest Secrets of the Deep State | Tom Drake

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 2010 Tom 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.