Report: Whistle-blower to Testify Against NSA

[ProSense]

Report: Whistle-blower to Testify Against NSA
Former Employee Alleges Illegal Intelligence Programs Were Conducted

Jan. 5, 2006 — - A whistle-blower who was fired from the National Security Agency last year says he wants to testify about electronic intelligence programs that he claims the NSA and the Defense Intelligence Agency conducted illegally, The Washington Times reported.

In Dec. 16 letters to the House and Senate intelligence committees, which would investigate the activities, Russ Tice said he would testify about top-secret Special Access Programs that were wrongly carried out by the agencies. Copies of the letters were obtained by the newspaper.

"I intend to report to Congress probable unlawful and unconstitutional acts conducted while I was an intelligence officer with the National Security Agency and with the Defense Intelligence Agency," Tice stated.

Tice told the newspaper that he was not part of the intercept program. He said in the letter that he would provide his testimony under the shield of the 1998 Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act.


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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=1474571&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

[wtbymark]

1. give the man a citizen's medal

[MadisonProgressive]

2. May he rest in peace. He was a very good man...

[BR_Parkway]

3. Rest in Peace? WTF?

[newsguyatl]

5. my thoughts exactly

better be looking behind, in front and beside him at all times.

[dusmcj]

4. watch for disinformation and sowing of confusion

not like they've never tried to disappear behind a smokescreen in the past... A sacrificial rearguard ? Not impossible... Let's be careful out there, they're going to get more dangerous, not less.

[snowbear]

6. Great post Pro-Sense... THANKS for sharing !!

Way to go Russ Tice!