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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-23-06 03:02 PM
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Tice, NSA , NYT story. Did you know the Gov accused him of Mental Illness?
It's TRUE! Read this! These people are PURE EVIL! Read what they tried to do to this man. This is a very LONG article, but well worth the read! Tice is a life-long Republican! They will try to destroy ANYONE who gets in their way.:( Russ Tice has had the FBI show up at his door with NO warrant. They are harassing the poor man. This has GOT to stop. Also, the opinion piece goes into WHY ScAlito SHOULD NOT be confirmed.


Opinion: About the People’s Right to Know
by Bill Weaver


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I have talked with Tice on numerous occasions and I remember the first time he revealed to me that the government accused him of mental illness. We were sitting in Pentagon City mall drinking smoothies and began to chuckle at the ridiculousness of the allegation, and soon we were laughing out loud. There is little else to do, since once the accusation is made it has a tendency to stick. Tice, a 20-year intelligence agent, is perfectly sane, with a calm analytical character. Like other whistleblowers I have talked with, he is terribly disillusioned with a government and a country that he dearly loves. The last time I talked with Tice was just a few minutes before I sat down to write this column, and he had just finished an interview with Chris Matthews on Hardball. He is still disillusioned, but he also sees hope.

Nine months before the NSA claimed Tice was mentally ill it found after a mandatory periodic mental health examination that he was perfectly normal. What happened in the intervening nine months? Tice, according to regulations, reported suspicious activity on the part of a co-worker. Tice worked with Special Access Projects, or SAPs, the most secretive activities of the U.S. government, where security is paramount. His co-worker exhibited classic signs of compromise: living beyond apparent means; accessing classified computers after hours and in areas not related to her work; travel abroad to suspect locations. Unfortunately for Tice the co-worker’s mother had occupied extremely high-level policy-making positions in various intelligence agencies.

After Tice reported his co-worker’s activity, he was referred to a psychologist for engaging in unwarranted suspicion. Setting aside for the moment that Tice was in the suspicion business, he was not referred to just any psychologist, but to a special mental health professional cleared to hear classified information and employed by the NSA. Over the years, many allegations have been made that NSA psychologists work with the agency to identify “troublesome” employees and have the employees declared mentally unfit for access to classified information. Without a clearance and access, the employee is out of a job. Tice had become a “troublesome” employee and the same psychologist who had found him perfectly normal nine months earlier now diagnosed him with “compartmented” paranoia, an apparently novel diagnosis that no one seems to have ever heard of. Apparently, he was paranoid because of his suspicions of his co-worker. This reminds me of case notes I once read by an agent interpreting intercept contents on a wiretap. The agent noted that the target of the wiretap exhibited paranoid tendencies because one of the intercepts caught the target musing that he may be under surveillance by the government.

After his experience with NSA psychologists, Tice went to a civilian psychologist for independent testing. The independent test found him to be free of mental illness. But NSA finally terminated Tice, and even though he has been out of work for the better part of a year and was smeared and brutalized by his former employer he still agonized in coming forward with information that the President had authorized unconstitutional surveillance of United States citizens.<snip>


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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-23-06 03:09 PM
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1. Instead of trying to murderize him they tried to
Mulderize him.... didn't work did it.

The truth will save you.... Mulder X-Files
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