Diane Roark

Diane Roark is an American whistleblower who served on the House Intelligence Committee from 1985 to 2002.[1] She was right after 9/11 "the House Intelligence Committee staffer in charge of oversight of the NSA".[2] Along with Ed Loomis, William Binney, and J. Kirk Wiebe, she filed a complaint to the Department of Defense's Inspector General about the NSA's secret Trailblazer Project.[3] Her house was raided by the FBI in 2007 after she was wrongly suspected of leaking to New York Times reporter James Risen[4] in a story about NSA warrantless surveillance.[1][2] This led to her suing the government in 2012 because they did not return her computer, which they had seized during the raid, and because the government failed to clear her name.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Diane Roark Interview
  2. 1 2 "James Risen Prepared to "Pay Any Price" to Report on War on Terror Amid Crackdown on Whistleblowers". DemocracyNow!. October 14, 2014. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  3. ↑ Nakashima, Ellen (13 July 2010). "Former NSA executive Thomas A. Drake may pay high price for media leak". Washington Post. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  4. ↑ C-SPAN.org: QA James Risen | Video | C-SPAN.org, accessdate: 2/7/2015
  5. ↑ Kravets, David (1 August 2012). "Whistleblower, Suspected of Leaking Warrantless Spying Program, Sues NSA". Wired. Retrieved 19 October 2014.

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