I must say I'm surprised by how skeptical of the [Barack] Obama administration The Nation has been.

Candidates run for election on campaign promises, but once they're elected they renege on those promises, which happened with President [Barack] Obama on Guantánamo, the surveillance programs and investigating the crimes of the Bush administration. These were very serious campaign promises that were not fulfilled.

Radicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level.

The power of the presidency is important, but it is not determinative.

As for labeling someone a whistleblower, I think it does them - it does all of us - a disservice, because it "otherizes" us.

We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world.

One of the reasons that I came forward and sort burned of my life to the ground, and I can't go back and see my family in the United States - I obviously lost my job, which I was quite comfortable with. I lost my home. It was because I felt there was no alternative.