Their real concerns are avoiding embarrassment, and avoiding any indication of incompetence. That's why the system I was allowed to use to blow the whistle is mainly structured to identify whistleblowers for reprisal and retaliation. With the intelligence community, particularly the CIA, it was a matter of saving face and the result of that was my prosecution through show trial.

CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling discusses the racial discrimination and operational disasters he witnessed at the agency, his own trial and imprisonment on charges without evidence, and what his experience taught him about the reality of the CIA's interests and allegiances.

Jeffrey is author of Unwanted Spy: The Persecution of an American Whistleblower from Bold Type Books.