Saturday, May 13, 2006

Former NSA guy Russell Tice: Phone data collection is just tip of iceberg

ThinkProgress: "CongressDaily reports that former NSA staffer Russell Tice will testify to the Senate Armed Services Comm next wk that not only do employees at the agency believe the activities they are being asked to perform are unlawful, but that what has been disclosed so far is only the tip of the iceberg. Tice will tell Congress that former NSA head Gen Michael Hayden, Bush’s nominee to be the next CIA director, oversaw more illegal activity that has yet to be disclosed: Tice said he plans to tell the committee staffers the NSA conducted illegal and unconstitutional surveillance of US citizens while he was there under the supervision of Gen Hayden. Of course it is illegal. Why else would Qwest have told the NSA to get bent? And why else was Verizon slapped w/a lawsuit yesterday?If Tice's name sounds familiar, it should. Tice has a history for blowing the whistle on serious misconduct. He was 1 of the sources that revealed the admin’s warrantless domestic spying program to the NYT. And I'm sure the smear campaign will kick into full throttle, but he's been thru it before: "Tice was a sr intelligence analyst at the NSA until he demanded to know in 4/03 what had happened to a report he had filed about a former colleague he suspected of spying for China. 2 months later, not only did Tice get demoted from the elite ranks of the intelligence community, but he was also deemed "paranoid" by one of the agency's psychologists, a death sentence in the intelligence field. Just 9 months earlier, Tice had been found psychologically sound during a routine evaluation." No doubt about it- we have crazy and paranoid people in Washington. Except most of them live at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
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