Diane Roark is an American whistleblower who served as a
Republican staffer on the
House Intelligence Committee from 1985 to 2002.
[Diane Roark Interview]
/ref> She was, right after 9/11
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, "the House Intelligence Committee staffer in charge of oversight of the NSA".Stellar Wind
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. Along with Binney, Ed Loomis, and J. Kirk Wiebe, she filed a complaint to the Department of Defense's Inspector General (DoD IG) about the National Security Agency's highly classified Trailblazer Project
Trailblazer was a United States National Security Agency (NSA) program intended to develop a capability to analyze data carried on communications networks like the Internet. It was intended to track entities using communication methods such as ce ...
. Her house was raided by armed FBI
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agents in 2007 after she was wrongly suspected of leaking to ''The New York Times
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'' reporter James Risen
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and to Siobhan Gorman at ''The Baltimore Sun
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Founded in 1837, the newspaper was owned by Tribune Publi ...
'' in stories about NSA warrantless surveillance
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.Thomas Andrews Drake
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, who had gone in confidence with anonymity assured to the DoD IG, led the Assistant Inspector General John Crane to eventually become a public whistleblower himself and also led Edward Snowden
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Born in 1983 in Elizabeth ...
to go public with revelations rather than to report within the internal whistleblower program.
See also
* Mark Klein
Mark Lee Klein (May 2, 1945 – March 8, 2025) was an American AT&T technician and whistleblower who revealed details of the company's cooperation with the United States National Security Agency in installing network hardware at a site known a ...
* Thomas Tamm
* Russ Tice
* Perry Fellwock
References
External links
*
Diane Roark conference
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People from Marion County, Oregon
Living people
1949 births
American whistleblowers
Catholic University of America alumni
University of Florida alumni