Ex-Justice Department Attorney Blasts Obama, says, "We're on the Road to Fascism"

July 18, 2013 • 12:10PM

Former U.S. Justice Department attorney Jesselyn Radack, who now represents a number of NSA whistleblowers, told the Voice of Russia, today, that President Obama's manhunt against Edward Snowden is ridiculous and lawless, and that she fears the U.S. is "on the road to Fascism." She said this, when asked how she would characterize the U.S. right now. Radeck said that someone from the former East Germany said: "You know, we are a post-fascist state. and you guys are pre-fascist state, and you don't even realize it is happening."

Radack pointed out that the system of checks and balances that has worked "reasonably well" for 200 years, is now "completely thrown out of whack." She noted that the U.S. courts have been prevented from hearing cases challenging the worst abuses, like torture, drones, and secret surveillance, because the Government comes in and asserts a State Secrets Privilege. "The Congress has basically been kowtowing to whatever the President wants, or they're being lied to." She charged that this "lack of accountability" has been going on since the W. Bush Administration.

"When Obama came into office, he said he was going to look forward, not backwards at all the crime that had been committed during the past four years," Radack said. "And that was like a pact with the devil, because if you just ignore past crimes, we're going to continue to commit crimes, and he actually has shown that he is willing to look back at the people who exposed the crimes, not at lawbreakers themselves."

"The President is literally driven to distraction by leaks, so-called leaks, which I consider most often are disclosures about wrongdoing by his government," Radack continued. "And I think right now the world sees how transparent this is, and how silly and ridiculous it is that President Obama continues to launch a worldwide manhunt for someone who has already been granted asylum by five countries."

As to Obama: "we got lied to," Radack declared. "In terms of our current elected leader, we thought he was going to be `Hope and Change' from the quite lawless Bush Administration, and instead he has been more of the same and even worse. Even worse. Instead of torturing people they're just going to `Drone' them from the face of the Earth. Instead of intimidating whistleblowers, were going to actually try to put them in jail for espionage. So, it's a very scary place, and I think a lot of people feel we're losing the Republic. And we may be `too far gone.' I hope that's not true, but it's certainly something that people are worried about."