NSA Whistleblower To Expose More Unlawful Activity:
‘People…Are Going To Be Shocked’
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/12/more-unlawful-activity/
CongressDaily reports that former NSA staffer Russell Tice will
testify to the Senate Armed Services Committee next week that
not only do employees at the agency believe the activities they
are being asked to perform are unlawful, but that what has been
disclosed so far is only the tip of the iceberg. Tice will tell
Congress that former NSA head Gen. Michael Hayden, Bush’s
nominee to be the next CIA director, oversaw more illegal
activity that has yet to be disclosed:
A former intelligence officer for the National Security Agency
said Thursday he plans to tell Senate staffers next week that
unlawful activity occurred at the agency under the supervision
of Gen. Michael Hayden beyond what has been publicly reported,
while hinting that it might have involved the illegal use of
space-based satellites and systems to spy on U.S. citizens. …
[Tice] said he plans to tell the committee staffers the NSA
conducted illegal and unconstitutional surveillance of U.S.
citizens while he was there with the knowledge of Hayden. … “I
think the people I talk to next week are going to be shocked
when I tell them what I have to tell them. It’s pretty hard to
believe,” Tice said. “I hope that they’ll clean up the abuses
and have some oversight into these programs, which doesn’t exist
right now.” …
Tice said his information is different from the Terrorist
Surveillance Program that Bush acknowledged in December and from
news accounts this week that the NSA has been secretly
collecting phone call records of millions of Americans. “It’s an
angle that you haven’t heard about yet,” he said. … He would not
discuss with a reporter the details of his allegations, saying
doing so would compromise classified information and put him at
risk of going to jail. He said he “will not confirm or deny” if
his allegations involve the illegal use of space systems and
satellites.
Tice has a history for blowing the whistle on serious
misconduct. He was one of the sources that revealed the
administration’s warrantless domestic spying program to the New
York Times.
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/12/more-unlawful-activity/
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