Jesselyn Radack

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jesselyn Radack
Occupation	Jurist
Date Of Birth	Dec 12, 1970(1970-12-12)
Age	54
Birthplace	Washington, D.C.
Country	United States
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Jesselyn Radack Biography

Jesselyn Radack is one of the most popular and richest Jurist who was born on December 12, 1970 in Washington, D.C., United States. She is famous for her personal experience as a whistleblower for the U.S. Department of Justice and also for her defense of, for example, National Security Agency whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Thomas Drake, each of who were prosecuted in violation of the Espionage Act of 1917.

Radack was a graduate of Yale Law School and, through the Attorney General’s Honors program, was accepted into the Justice Department where she practiced the law of constitutional tort from 1995 until 1999. She was then employed in the newly created Department’s Professional Responsibility Advisory Office (PRAO) between 1999 and 2002.

On December 7, 2001, Radack received an inquiry from Justice Department counterterrorism prosecutor John DePue regarding the ethical propriety of interrogating Lindh in Afghanistan without a lawyer present. He told her that Lindh’s father had retained counsel for his son. This was not known to Lindh. Radack responded that interrogating him was not authorized by law. The principle at issue was that a person represented by a lawyer cannot be contacted by agents of the Justice Department, including the FBI, without permission of that lawyer. According to Radack, her advice was approved by Claudia Flynn, then head of PRAO, and Joan Goldfrank, a senior PRAO attorney.

While at the Justice Department, she disclosed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) committed an ethics violation in their interrogation of John Walker Lindh (the “American Taliban” captured during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan) without an attorney present, and alleged that the Department of Justice attempted to suppress that information. The Lindh case was the first major terrorism prosecution after 9/11. Her experience is chronicled in her memoir, TRAITOR: The Whistleblower and the “American Taliban” and the documentary Silenced.

Radack was raised in Washington, D.C., and went to Brown University. Radack was chosen as a member of Phi Beta Kappa during her senior year, and graduated in 1992 with an undergraduate major with a triple focus in American women’s studies, civilization and political science with distinction across all three areas. She was among the two students to receive distinctions from Brown in three different concentrations from 1983 and the spring of 2004.

Jesselyn Radack Net Worth

Jesselyn Radack is one of the richest Jurist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jesselyn Radack 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Jesselyn Radack (born December 12 1970) is an American national security attorney and human rights lawyer well-known for her advocacy of journalists, whistleblowers, and hackers. Radack graduated from Brown University and Yale Law School and started her career in the Honors Program attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice.

Radack claims that she didn’t give the documents to the court or the prosecutors when she uncovered the documents because she was intimidated by Flynn who had instructed her to drop the issue. Later, no longer working in government, she reasoned, “I couldn’t go to the court because Justice Department lawyers would argue (as they did when I eventually did try to tell my story to the court) that I had no standing. I couldn’t go to a Member of Congress because, as a resident of the District of Columbia, I didn’t have a voting representative. What I could do is disclose my story to the press–a judicially-sanctioned way of exposing wrongdoing under the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989, which provides protection to federal government employees who blow the whistle on what they reasonably believe evidences a violation of any law, rule, or regulation; gross mismanagement; or an abuse of authority”.

Radack continued to research the issue until December 20, 2001, when Flynn told her to drop the matter because Lindh had been “Mirandized”. It was later learned that the FBI agent Christopher Reimann who read Lindh the Miranda warning had, when noting the right to counsel, ad-libbed: “Of course, there are no lawyers here”.

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Radack resigned from the Justice Department on April 5, 2002. In June 2002 she heard a broadcast on NPR stating that the Department claimed they had never taken the position that Lindh was entitled to counsel during his interrogation. She later wrote, “I knew this statement was not true. It also indicated to me that the Justice Department must not have turned over my e-mails to the Lindh court … because I did not believe the Department would have the temerity to make public statements contradicted by its own court filings, even if those filings were in camera.” She reasoned that “disclosure of my e-mails would advance compliance with the Lindh court’s discovery order while also exposing gross mismanagement and abuse of authority by my superiors at the Justice Department.”

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Jesselyn Ranked on the list of most popular Jurist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jesselyn Radack celebrates birthday on December 12 of every year.

On March 7, 2002, while Radack was still working at PRAO, the lead prosecutor in the Lindh case, Randy Bellows, messaged Radack that there was a court order for all of the Justice Department’s internal correspondence about Lindh’s interrogation. He said that he had two of her messages and wanted to make sure he had everything.

Top Facts about Jesselyn Radack

1. Jesselyn Radack is an American attorney and whistleblower.
2. She gained national attention for representing Edward Snowden.
3. Radack was a former ethics adviser to the U.S. Department of Justice.
4. She has been a vocal advocate for government transparency and accountability.
5. Radack has also represented other high-profile whistleblowers, including Thomas Drake.
6. In 2011, she received the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence.
7. Radack is currently the director of National Security & Human Rights at the Government Accountability Project (GAP).
8. She has written several books on whistleblowing and government accountability.
9. Radack frequently appears as a commentator on news programs such as CNN and MSNBC.
10. She holds degrees from Brown University and Yale Law School.