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Wednesday, January 11, 2006

If you ever place overseas calls anywhere, you may be under surveillance
Posted by Jill | 6:57 AM

I guess I'm on the list, then, because of making calls to Club Ambiance last year to confirm our hotel reservation.

The NSA whistleblower has come forward:

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

President Bush has admitted that he gave orders that allowed the NSA to eavesdrop on a small number of Americans without the usual requisite warrants.

But Tice disagrees. He says the number of Americans subject to eavesdropping by the NSA could be in the millions if the full range of secret NSA programs is used.

"That would mean for most Americans that if they conducted, or you know, placed an overseas communication, more than likely they were sucked into that vacuum," Tice said.

The same day The New York Times broke the story of the NSA eavesdropping without warrants, Tice surfaced as a whistleblower in the agency. He told ABC News that he was a source for the Times' reporters. But Tice maintains that his conscience is clear.

"As far as I'm concerned, as long as I don't say anything that's classified, I'm not worried," he said. "We need to clean up the intelligence community. We've had abuses, and they need to be addressed."

The NSA revoked Tice's security clearance in May of last year based on what it called psychological concerns and later dismissed him. Tice calls that bunk and says that's the way the NSA deals with troublemakers and whistleblowers. Today the NSA said it had "no information to provide."


Here's the question, folks: We have a beleaguered president, one with anger management issues and feelings of entitlement. Support for the way he's conducting his so-called "war on terror" is at an all-time low, and he has little support outside the kool-aid drinkers who would worship him even if he were caught buggering little boys in the choirloft. Yesterday he all but ordered Democrats to not criticize his policies during the campaigns later this year, in a speech in which he was projecting his own policies and views onto others again:

Our enemies have no regard for human life. They're trying to hijack a great religion to justify a dark vision that rejects freedom and tolerance and dissent. They have a strategy, and part of that strategy is they're trying to shake our will. They kill the innocent. They kill women and children, knowing that the images of their brutality will horrify civilized peoples. Their goal is to drive nations into retreat so they can topple governments across the Middle East, establish Taliban-like regimes, and turn that region into a launching pad for more attacks against our people. In all their objectives, our enemies are trying to intimidate America and the free world. And in all their objectives, they will fail.


We've already seen from Nixon what paranoid, delusional presidents do. Does anyone actually trust this guy to ONLY order surveillance of terrorists, especially when we already have documented cases of surveillance of domestic dissidents?
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