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| Spying Goes Farther than Terrorist Surveillance Program |
jackreade |
05/13/06 |
"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".
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Clarification/Follow-up by Itsdb on 05/15/06 9:01 pm:
>>It's a quote from Tice"
Technically it appears to be a quote by Faiz at Thinkprogress, which you neglected to tell us, but then since when did a Bush critic ever care to be transparent?
>>we will all know after he testifies this week. After he tells all the abuses, then you can deny realilty.<<
Reality is what Faiz 'believes' is irrelevent, and Tice's testimony will not be the conclusion of the matter. Talk to me about reality when you have something substantial to prove this 'illegal activity' - not Faiz's or anyone elses 'belief' that it's so. :)
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