Sam Adams Award

The Sam Adams Award is given annually to an intelligence professional who has taken a stand for integrity and ethics. 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]

Not to be confused with the Sammies, an award given by the Sam Adams Alliance.

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, 2013 and 2014 Awards were presented at the Oxford Union.[2][3]

Recipients
  • 2002: Coleen Rowley[4][5]
  • 2003: Katharine Gun, former British intelligence (GCHQ) translator; leaked top-secret information showing illegal US activities during the push for war in Iraq[6]
  • 2004: Sibel Edmonds, former FBI translator; fired after accusing FBI officials of ignoring intelligence pointing to al-Qaeda attacks against the US[7]
  • 2005: Craig Murray,[4] 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[7]
  • 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.[4]
  • 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][15]
  • 2014: Chelsea Manning,[16][17] 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[18]
  • 2018: Karen Kwiatkowski, a US Air Force officer who became a whistleblower, leaking material behind the film Shock and Awe.[19]
  • 2019: Jeffrey Sterling, CIA whistleblower[20]

Citations
  1. McGovern archived.
  2. Carlo 2014.
  3. McGovern 2013a.
  4. Rowley 2009.
  5. McGovern 2013b.
  6. McGovern 2013c.
  7. Snowden honored 2013.
  8. Horton 2007.
  9. DR 2009.
  10. Oxford Union 2013.
  11. McGovern 2010.
  12. McGovern 2011.
  13. Whistleblowers on RT 2013.
  14. GAP: Snowden Award 2013.
  15. Haaretz 2013.
  16. Nicks 2014.
  17. Russia Today 2014.
  18. McGovern 2017.
  19. SAAII 2018.
  20. McGovern 2020.

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