The FRONTLINE Interview: Thomas Drake

NSA senior executive, 2001-08 More

Thomas Drake served as a senior executive at the NSA from 2001 to 2008. He brought his concerns about wasteful spending at the NSA and the government's surveillance program to a Baltimore Sun reporter; he was later charged with leaking classified information under the Espionage Act, but the charges were ultimately dropped.

AIR DATE 5/12/08