Sam Adams Award

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Not to be confused with the Sammies, an award given by the Sam Adams Alliance.

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The Sam Adams Award is given annually to an intelligence professional who has taken a stand for integrity and ethics. The Award is granted by the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence, a group of retired CIA officers. It is named after Samuel A. Adams, a CIA whistleblower during the Vietnam War, and takes the physical form of a "corner-brightener candlestick".[1][unreliable source?]

Ray McGovern established the Sam Adams Associates "to reward intelligence officials who demonstrated a commitment to truth and integrity, no matter the consequences."[2]

The 2012 and 2013[3] and 2014 Awards were presented at the Oxford Union.[2]

Edward Snowden receiving the Sam Adams Award in October 2013

Recipients[]

  • 2002: Coleen Rowley[4]
  • 2003: Katharine Gun, former British intelligence (GCHQ) translator; leaked top-secret information showing illegal US activities during the push for war in Iraq.[5]
  • 2004: Sibel Edmonds, former FBI translator; fired after accusing FBI officials of ignoring intelligence pointing to al-Qaeda attacks against the US.[6][unreliable source?]
  • 2005: Craig Murray,[7] former British ambassador to Uzbekistan who blew the whistle on UK complicity in the Uzbek government's use of torture and involvement in extraordinary rendition.
  • 2006: Samuel Provance, former U.S. Army military intelligence sergeant; spoke out about abuses at the Abu Ghraib Prison.[8]
  • 2007: Andrew Wilkie, retired Australian intelligence official; claimed intelligence was being exaggerated to justify Australian support for the US invasion of Iraq.[6][unreliable source?]
  • 2008: Frank Grevil, Danish whistleblower; leaked classified information showing no clear evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.[9]
  • 2009: Larry Wilkerson, former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell and Iraq War critic.[7]
  • 2010: Julian Assange, editor-in-chief and founder of WikiLeaks.[10][11]
  • 2011: Thomas Andrews Drake, former senior executive of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA); Jesselyn Radack, former ethics adviser to the U.S. Department of Justice.[12]
  • 2012: Thomas Fingar, former chairman of the National Intelligence Council.[1]
  • 2013: Edward Snowden, leaked NSA material showing mass surveillance by the agency, sparking heated debate.[13][14]
  • 2014: Chelsea Manning,[15] U.S. Army soldier convicted in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act and other offenses.
  • 2015: William Binney, former highly placed intelligence official with the NSA turned whistleblower.[citation needed]
  • 2016: John Kiriakou,[citation needed] former CIA analyst and case officer who publicly confirmed the employment of waterboarding against detainees and characterized the practice as torture.
  • 2017: Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who reported on the My Lai massacre, the Abu Ghraib scandal, and alleged misrepresentations of the 2013 Ghouta attack and the 2017 Khan Shaykhun attack.[16]
  • 2018: Karen Kwiatkowski, U.S. Air Force officer who became a whistleblower, leaking material behind the film Shock and Awe.[17]
  • 2019: Jeffrey Sterling, CIA whistleblower.[18]
  • 2020: Annie Machon, MI5 whistleblower.[19]
  • 2021: Daniel Hale, U.S. Air Force enlisted airman who became an intelligence analyst for the NSA in Afghanistan and later exposed the consequences of drone strikes.[20]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b McGovern archived.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Carlo 2014.
  3. ^ McGovern 2013a.
  4. ^ McGovern 2013b.
  5. ^ McGovern 2013c.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Snowden honored 2013.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b Rowley 2009.
  8. ^ Horton 2007.
  9. ^ DR 2009.
  10. ^ Oxford Union 2013.
  11. ^ McGovern 2010.
  12. ^ McGovern 2011.
  13. ^ GAP: Snowden Award 2013.
  14. ^ Haaretz 2013.
  15. ^ Nicks 2014.
  16. ^ McGovern 2017.
  17. ^ SAAII 2018.
  18. ^ McGovern 2020.
  19. ^ "MI-5 Whistleblower Annie Machon Wins 2021 Sam Adams Award; Prof. Stephen Cohen to be Honored". Consortiumnews. March 16, 2021. Retrieved March 16, 2021.
  20. ^ "Drone Warfare Whistleblower Daniel Hale Honored with Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence". Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence. August 23, 2021. Retrieved August 23, 2021.

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