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What You Should Know / May 20, 2011

So the anti-NSA hero of Jane Mayer’s New Yorker story was a police informant in high school, who as a teenager signed up to bust pot smoking hippies…

www.newyorker.com -- On June 13th, a fifty-four-year-old former government employee named Thomas Drake is scheduled to appear in a courtroom in Baltimore, where he will face some of the gravest charges that can be brought against an American citizen. . . . Drake’s history of whistle-blowing stretches back to high school, in Manchester, Vermont, where his father, a retired Air Force officer, taught. When drugs infested the school, Drake became a police informant.