The Sad, Infuriating Tale of Daniel Duggan
An innocent American and his family are the latest victims of the US obsession of the "Chinese threat"
The Justice Department has made something of a sport of attacking people on “national security” grounds. Just look at what has happened in recent years to Tom Drake, Chelsea Manning, Jeffrey Sterling, Daniel Hale, and this writer. The Justice Department’s attack dogs told Tom Drake and Chelsea Manning that they had the “blood of American soldiers” on their hands. That was an outrageous lie, of course. They told Jeffrey Sterlingthat he had aided Iran’s nuclear program. That was made up out of whole cloth. They told Daniel Hale that he had weakened America’s war-fighters. That was ludicrous. They told me that I had “weakened our democracy” and “aided the enemy” after I blew the whistle on the CIA’s illegal and immoral torture program. Those were more outrageous lies.
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