[Kzyxtalk] Fwd: thank you letter to Tom Drake

[sako4 at comcast.net]

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From: sako4 at comcast.net 
To: "Tom Drake" 
Cc: "Matthew Hoh", "William Binney" 
Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2015 2:49:34 PM 
Subject: thank you 

Tom, 

We here at KMEC Radio we want to thank you for spending 90 minutes with us earlier today. We'll get the show's digital quality cleaned up, and the show edited, etc., possibly with a transcript, and posted to Youtube, the Public Radio Exchange, and Radio4all. 

The station manager and I also talked about getting out a press release to mainstream media, pitching story ideas based on some of the important points you raised today. In a separate email, I'll copy you on what we think those points are. Our hope is that they're run feature stories based on our interview with you. 

Finally, below are four questions that remained unanswered during the show. Before the show, I had asked many of your colleagues and peers to submit questions. Their questions helped me outline the show's content. I asked some of the questions verbatim, and slightly rephrased others. 

About the four unanswered questions -- three questions are from Matt Hoh, and one question is from Bill Binney. I never got the chance to ask the questions, because they would have interrupted the flow of our interview which was conversational, meaning that our interview was structured, but not standardized or scripted. 

Because I want to honor Hoh's and Binney's input, please at your earliest convenience answer the four questions. The questions are highly relevant to our interview this morning. We'll take your answers and fold them into our final work product as voice-overs. It will take a little fancy footwork from the production team, but we can do it. 

The questions are found below. 

Again, Tom, thank you. 

A final word. Hear me out. The irony of the timing of today's interview was not lost on me. I'll explain. 

In your July 2014 interview at Der Spiegel with Jesselyn Radack, you stated that," National security has become a state religion." Well, today is Holy Thursday. On this day in the Catholic Church, the private celebration of Mass is forbidden. Apart from the Chrism Mass for the blessing of the Holy Oils that the diocesan bishop may celebrate on the morning of Holy Thursday, the only other Mass on this day is the evening Mass of the Lord's Supper, which inaugurates the period of three days known as the Easter Triduum (Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and the Easter Vigil). These are three days of silence, fasting, and mourning, as Christ lies symbolically in repose in the Tomb. 

Think of these three days as a "blackout" period. 

My prayer during this Easter season is that our country observe a similar blackout with regard to our state religion. 

John 



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Hi John, 

Make sure you ask him about how the government made up charges against him, including retroactively classifying documents. 

Also, ask him to explain what it means for everyone listening for the government to demand that industry build back doors into software and hardware. 

Finally, I'd ask him to talk about what freedom and liberty now mean to him compared to before he spoke his mind and challenged the government. 

Matt 

Matthew Hoh 
Senior Fellow 
Center for International Policy 
703-999-8075 

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Tom ran the Thinthread program against the NSA data base in early 2002. You should ask him 
what evidence he found in that data base (prior to Sep 11) that would have prevented the 9/11 attack. 
Bill 

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