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mother earth

(6,002 posts)
Thu Jan 2, 2014, 05:01 PM Jan 2014

Russell Tice, NSA Whistleblower: Candidates, Pols, Judges, Journos, all subjects of spying.

Russ Tice, a former intelligence analyst who in 2005 blew the whistle on what he alleged was massive unconstitutional domestic spying across multiple agencies, claimed Wednesday that the NSA had ordered wiretaps on phones connected to then-Senate candidate Barack Obama in 2004.

Speaking on "The Boiling Frogs Show," Tice claimed the intelligence community had ordered surveillance on a wide range of groups and individuals, including high-ranking military officials, lawmakers and diplomats.

"Here's the big one ... this was in summer of 2004, one of the papers that I held in my hand was to wiretap a bunch of numbers associated with a 40-something-year-old wannabe senator for Illinois," he said. "You wouldn't happen to know where that guy lives right now would you? It's a big white house in Washington, D.C. That's who they went after, and that's the president of the United States now."

Host Sibel Edmonds and Tice both raised concerns that such alleged monitoring of subjects, unbeknownst to them, could provide the intelligence agencies with huge power to blackmail their targets.

"I was worried that the intelligence community now has sway over what is going on," Tice said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/20/russ-tice-nsa-obama_n_3473538.html
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At home & offices, the subjects of NSA surveillance is not about terrorism, it's about using info. and shaping outcomes.

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Russell Tice, NSA Whistleblower: Candidates, Pols, Judges, Journos, all subjects of spying. (Original Post) mother earth Jan 2014 OP
Rotten to the core. woo me with science Jan 2014 #1
Tice brought up one name in 2008 that resonated... Octafish Jan 2014 #2
Here's the link to Tice's June 2013 Boiling Frogs interview with Sibell Edmonds and Peter B Collins. hedda_foil Jan 2014 #3
"...wannabe senator for Illinois..."??? Blue_Tires Jan 2014 #4
He was a community organizer. Only a step away from O-M-B-A-Y O-W-I-N-G-T-H-A-Y. NM rhett o rick Jan 2014 #6
Clearly all of them are terrorists - including Obama! riderinthestorm Jan 2014 #5
A great tool, isn't it? Intelligence community is running the show, all of it, behind the scenes. mother earth Jan 2014 #8
+1 woo me with science Jan 2014 #9
K&R'd! snot Jan 2014 #7
^ Wilms Jan 2014 #10

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
2. Tice brought up one name in 2008 that resonated...
Thu Jan 2, 2014, 05:12 PM
Jan 2014
Russ Tice, Bush-Era Whistleblower, Claims NSA Ordered Wiretap Of Barack Obama In 2004

The Huffington Post | By Nick Wing
Posted: 06/20/2013

Russ Tice, a former intelligence analyst who in 2005 blew the whistle on what he alleged was massive unconstitutional domestic spying across multiple agencies, claimed Wednesday that the NSA had ordered wiretaps on phones connected to then-Senate candidate Barack Obama in 2004.

Speaking on "The Boiling Frogs Show," Tice claimed the intelligence community had ordered surveillance on a wide range of groups and individuals, including high-ranking military officials, lawmakers and diplomats.

"Here's the big one ... this was in summer of 2004, one of the papers that I held in my hand was to wiretap a bunch of numbers associated with a 40-something-year-old wannabe senator for Illinois," he said. "You wouldn't happen to know where that guy lives right now would you? It's a big white house in Washington, D.C. That's who they went after, and that's the president of the United States now."

Host Sibel Edmonds and Tice both raised concerns that such alleged monitoring of subjects, unbeknownst to them, could provide the intelligence agencies with huge power to blackmail their targets.

"I was worried that the intelligence community now has sway over what is going on," Tice said.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/20/russ-tice-nsa-obama_n_3473538.html
 

riderinthestorm

(23,272 posts)
5. Clearly all of them are terrorists - including Obama!
Thu Jan 2, 2014, 06:59 PM
Jan 2014

Actually what interests me the most about the tap on Obama is that somebody, somebody important, had already singled him out for a future major political office. That indicates to me, more clearly than anything else, that the shadowy power players are actually running the show from the NSA.

The NSA is obviously used for industrial espionage and to ensure American economic imperialism so it only follows they'd be used to tap into the future lapdogs in order to ensure compliance down the road.

mother earth

(6,002 posts)
8. A great tool, isn't it? Intelligence community is running the show, all of it, behind the scenes.
Thu Jan 2, 2014, 08:28 PM
Jan 2014

And we are all "foreigners" now.

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