Ex-official warned against testifying to Congress on NSA programs

[Rose Siding]

Sorry about the source; this seemed newsworthy

The National Security Agency has warned a former intelligence officer that he should not testify to Congress about accusations of illegal activity at NSA because of the secrecy of the programs involved.

Renee Seymour, director of NSA special access programs stated in a Jan. 9 letter to Russ Tice that he should not testify about secret electronic intelligence programs because members and staff of the House and Senate intelligence committees do not have the proper security clearances for the secret intelligence.

Miss Seymour stated that Mr. Tice has "every right" to speak to Congress and that NSA has "no intent to infringe your rights."

However, she stated that the programs Mr. Tice took part in were so secret that "neither the staff nor the members of the or are cleared to receive the information covered by the special access programs, or SAPs."
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Miss Seymour also said Mr. Tice must first "obtain and follow direction" from Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, through the inspectors general on the proper procedures for contacting the congressional oversight committees.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20060111-112622-2876r.htm

[sabra]

1. of course DU reported on this first :-)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=104246&mesg_id=104246

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. As I predicted, fox/wh is smearing Tice, saying he is a mental case.