Heads Up : NSA Whistleblower (NYT source) on ABC Nightline Tonight

[jefferson_dem]

NSA Whistleblower Alleges Illegal Spying
Former Employee Admits to Being a New York Times Source
By BRIAN ROSS

Jan 10, 2006 — - Russell Tice, a longtime insider at the National Security Agency, is now a whistleblower the agency would like to keep quiet.

For 20 years, Tice worked in the shadows as he helped the United States spy on other people's conversations around the world.

Watch the full report on Nightline at 11:35 p.m. ET.

"I specialized in what's called special access programs," Tice said of his job. "We called them 'black world' programs and operations."

But now, Tice tells ABC News that some of those secret "black world" operations run by the NSA were operated in ways that he believes violated the law. He is prepared to tell Congress all he knows about the alleged wrongdoing in these programs run by the Defense Department and the National Security Agency in the post-9/11 efforts to go after terrorists.

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http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1491889

[bluestateguy]

1. I'm sure the Freepers will be all primed and ready with the death threats

When conservative talk show hosts and bloggers use incendiary rhetoric to attack people like this man it has the effect of spurring on fragile people to make threats and commit violence. Intended or not, that's what happens.

[Trevelyan]

2. Email Congress to hold hearings on Tice's information and protect him

Sibyl Edmond's site http://www.JustACitizen.com links to her government Whistleblower protection group and she has a petition to ungag her and release her redacted testimony to the 911 Commission.

http://www.dccc.org/get_involved/petitions/abuseofpower/

Stop Extremism and Abuse of Power in the House

A handful of moderates in the Senate showed what can happen when Republicans stand up to their extremist Leadership and put their country first.

With House Republicans continuing to march in lockstep with the radical agenda of Tom DeLay, they would do a service to their country to take a lesson from their handful of reasonable colleagues in the Senate...

[stray cat]

3. what a constrast to the Plame leakers

This guy has courage if nothing else. Depending on what he has to say I suspect he is also a true patriot.

[Amonester]

4. K & R = Get this on Greatest Page (before 11:35 PM ET.)

Thanks for your actions!!

[davidwparker]

5. I saw him on Democracy Now! a couple days ago. For those interested,

get the podcast or stream.

[libertypirate]

6. Holy horshit batman!

He just stated the government uses realtime technology allowing them ability to sort and track all private communications.



Tracking Calls

Tice says the technology exists to track and sort through every domestic and international phone call as they are switched through centers, such as one in New York, and to search for key words or phrases that a terrorist might use.

"If you picked the word 'jihad' out of a conversation," Tice said, "the technology exists that you focus in on that conversation, and you pull it out of the system for processing."



What right to privacy?

Six degrees treatment... What if you dial a wrong number?

According to Tice, intelligence analysts use the information to develop graphs that resemble spiderwebs linking one suspect's phone number to hundreds or even thousands more.

[smartvoter]

7. Just another disgruntled employee.

:sarcasm:

[jefferson_dem]

8. kicker!

:kick:

[AnnieBW]

9. And Another

Kickie-poo!:kick:

[Straight Shooter]

10. I hope he gives America an earful.

:kick:

[shance]

11. kick

n/t

[Bozita]

12. MUST SEE TV for all leftcoasters

I fear for this guy, Tice.

[me b zola]

13. kick for other West Coasters

:kick:

[SupplyConcerns]

14. Those are some balls

Man, way to go. Don't behave like a criminal at all, if you're not and they're only trying to paint you that way.

[dutchdemocrat]

15. NSA documents converted from PDF to HRML

NSA's letter to Tice on the ninth of Jan.

http://www.chris-floyd.com/bush/tice/




http://www.chris-floyd.com/bush/tice/