Jesselyn Radack

Government Accountability Project: Leiter der Menschenrechtsabteilung

Jesselyn Radack is the director of National Security & Human Rights at the Government Accountability Project (GAP), the nation’s leading whistleblower organization. Her program focuses specifically on secrecy, surveillance, torture, and discrimination.  She has been at the forefront of the government’s unprecedented “war on whistleblowers,” which has also implicated journalists. Among her clients, she represents seven national security and intelligence community employees who have been investigated, charged or prosecuted under the Espionage Act for allegedly mishandling classified information, including Edward Snowden, Thomas Drake, and John Kiriakou. She also represents clients bringing whistleblower retaliation complaints in federal court and various administrative bodies. Previously, she served on the DC Bar Legal Ethics Committee and worked at the Justice Department for seven years, first as a trial attorney and later as a legal ethics advisor. 

Ms Radack is author of TRAITOR: The Whistleblower & the “American Taliban.” Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, L.A. Times, Washington Post, Guardian, The Nation, Salon, Legal Times, National Law Journal, and numerous academic law reviews. She is also a popular blogger at Daily Kos. Ms Radack received the "Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence Award" in 2011; the "Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award" in 2012; and was named one of Foreign Policy magazine’s "Leading Global Thinkers of 2013.” A graduate of Brown University and Yale Law School, she lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and three children.