Sam Adams Award
The Sam Adams Award is given annually to an intelligence professional who has taken a stand for integrity and ethics. According to The Award is given 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]
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]
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]
- 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 US 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]
- 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 US NSA; Jesselyn Radack, former ethics adviser to the US 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] a United States Army soldier who was convicted in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act and other offenses
- 2015: William Binney, a former highly placed intelligence official with the United States National Security Agency turned whistleblower
- 2016: John Kiriakou, 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, a US Air Force officer who became a whistleblower, leaking material behind the film Shock and Awe.[17]
- 2019: Jeffrey Sterling, CIA whistleblower[18]
Citations
Sources
- Carlo, Silkie (February 20, 2014). "Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden Criticize the "Decline" of US Democracy". Motherboard. Retrieved February 21, 2014.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- "Former National Security Whistleblowers Meet in Moscow and Award Sam Adams Prize to Snowden". Government Accountability Project. October 10, 2013. Archived from the original on November 14, 2013.] Archived November 14, 2013, at the Wayback Machine-->
- "Former U.S. officials give NSA whistleblower Snowden award in Russia". Haaretz. Associated Press. October 10, 2013.
- "Frank Grevil får whistleblower-pris" (in Danish). DR. January 26, 2009. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
- Horton, Scott (September 21, 2007). "Sam Adams Award to Sam Provance". Harper's Magazine.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- "Karen Kwiatkowski Receives 17th Sam Adams Award 2018". The Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence. December 8, 2018.
- McGovern, Ray. "Sam Adams Award". Archived from the original on January 16, 2014.
- McGovern, Ray (December 8, 2010). "What's Behind the War on WikiLeaks". Consortium News.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- McGovern, Ray (November 16, 2011). "Whistleblowers Honored on Nov. 21". Consortium News.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- McGovern, Ray (January 14, 2013a). "Post-Iraq-War US Intel Chief Praised". Consortium News.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- McGovern, Ray (January 31, 2013c). "When Truth Tried to Stop War". Consortium News.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- McGovern, Ray (October 10, 2013b). "Snowden Accepts Whistleblower Award". Consortium News.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- McGovern, Ray (September 1, 2017). "Seymour Hersh Honored for Integrity". Consortium News.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- McGovern, Ray (January 12, 2020). "Whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling, Who Went Through Kafkaesque Trial, Wins 2020 Sam Adams Award". Consortium News. Retrieved February 3, 2020.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Nicks, Denver (February 19, 2014). "Snowden Congratulates Chelsea Manning". Time. Retrieved February 20, 2014.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Rowley, Coleen (October 19, 2009). "Colonel Larry Wilkerson to Receive 2009 Sam Adams Truthtelling Award". HuffPost.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- "Sam Adams Awards including videolink with Julian Assange". Oxford Union. January 23, 2013. Archived from the original on April 21, 2014.] Archived April 21, 2014, at the Wayback Machine-->
- "Snowden honored by group of former intelligence officials". OrientalReview.org. July 12, 2013.
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