Sam Knight is auditing marijuana crop diversity at the Svalbard global seed vault on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, but in his place on today’s episode we have journalist Chip Gibbons from Defending Rights and Dissent.

Chip reveals the latest on whistleblower Daniel Hale and how the Trump administration has increased the intensity of the Obama administration’s attack on journalism.

Check out Defending Rights and Dissent’s letter in support of Hale: https://rightsanddissent.org/news/whistleblowers-journalists-and-free-press-advocates-condemn-espionage-act-charges-against-drone-whistleblower-daniel-hale/

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