Now we can protect whistleblowers

The Espionage Act has been used and abused to punish whistleblowers, journalists, and publishers, prosecuting them as if they were traitorous enemies, but denying them the right to put forward the defense that they were exposing, rather than committing, a crime.

We've seen indictments of Thomas Drake, Chelsea Manning, Jeffrey Sterling, John Kiriakou, Edward Snowden, Reality Winner, Julian Assange, Terry Albury, and Daniel Hale, not for trying to harm the United States but for trying to protect the United States from abuses within its government.

We need whistleblowers protected and rewarded. We need members of the press left free to exercise their First Amendment rights. We need the Constitutional right to defend oneself in court protected.

Click here to email your representative and senators to pass the Daniel Ellsberg Press Freedom and Whistleblower Protection Act.