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Jesselyn Radack

Jesselyn Radack

American attorney

Sep 28, 2026

7:25
And can you please tell our listeners about your own whistleblowing and why whistleblowing became so important to you so quickly?
7:35
Sure.
7:35
I worked at the Justice Department as an ethics advisor.
7:39
And in the aftermath of 9/11, I was called about giving ethics advice on the interrogation of the so-called American Taliban, John Walker Lindh, an American who had been caught abroad fighting, supposedly, with terrorists.
7:59
And by that point, there were pictures circulating worldwide of him blindfolded, naked, bound to a board with duct tape, with epithets written on his body.
8:11
It was clear he was being tortured.
8:14
I think this is something obviously that resonates with you, John, because I know you also blew the whistle on torture.

28 MINS LATER

36:05
Is that really where we've reverted? After all these years?

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