Comments on: Whistleblower: NSA spying on Americans

By: Tice will talk - Homeland Stupidity

Tice will talk - Homeland Stupidity — Mon, 15 May 2006 14:41:32 +0000

[...] Tice first approached the House and Senate Intelligence Committees in December, shortly after the New York Times revealed the existence of what President George W. Bush now calls the terrorist surveillance program, a classified NSA program which collects international calls to and from the United States believed to be associated with terrorists. [...]

By: Please spy on us, say Americans - Homeland Stupidity

Please spy on us, say Americans - Homeland Stupidity — Fri, 12 May 2006 19:47:42 +0000

[...] “As a Signals Intelligence officer it is continually drilled into us that the very first law chiseled in the SIGINT equivalent of the Ten Commandments is that thou shall not spy on American persons without a court order from FISA,” said former National Security Agency employee Russell Tice. “The very people that lead the National Security Agency have violated this holy edict of SIGINT.” [...]

By: Observe and report, then see what happens - Homeland Security or Homeland Stupidity

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:54:07 +0000

[...] Consider the story of Russell Tice. While working at the Defense Intelligence Agency, he noticed one of his coworkers exhibiting some unusual behavior which, as he put it, might be indicative of espionage activities. And being a good bureaucrat, he reported it. What happened next is typical: he was transferred, then ultimately fired. [...]

By: NSA whistleblower admits being New York Times source - Homeland Security or Homeland Stupidity

Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:59:01 +0000

[...] + del.icio.us Russell Tice, a former National Security Agency and Defense Intelligence Agency employee who lost his job and says it was in retaliation for whistleblowing, said Tuesday that he was one of the sources for New York Times reporting on the NSA’s special surveillance program.You might recall I spoke about Tice three weeks ago, when he said he wanted to testify before Congressional intelligence committees about intelligence abuses at NSA and DIA. Now he has revealed on ABC’s World News Tonight that he was one of “over a dozen” sources who contributed to the Times reporting on NSA’s surveillance of certain Americans believed to be linked to terrorist groups. [...]

By: cryptolife il blog di phillip bailey, diario di un Unix IT manager. » I segreti della NSA

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 12:50:18 +0000

[...] Russ Tice, un ex analista della N.S.A si presentera’ nei prossimi giorni a deporre presso le Commissioni Intelligence della Camera e del Senato USA, in merito alla vicenda delle intercettazioni illegali operate dall’ Agenzia di Sicurezza americana nei confronti di inconsci [...]

By: NSA shared domestic intercepts with other agencies - Homeland Security or Homeland Stupidity

Sun, 01 Jan 2006 06:43:54 +0000

[...] Since the revelation last month that President Bush had authorized the NSA to intercept communications inside the United States, public concern has focused primarily on the legality of the NSA eavesdropping. Less attention has been paid to, and little is known about, how the NSA’s information may have been used by other government agencies to investigate American citizens or to cross-check with other databases. In the 1960s and 1970s, the military used NSA intercepts to maintain files on U.S. peace activists, revelations of which prompted Congress to restrict the NSA from intercepting communications of Americans. [...]