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NSA Blocking Whistleblower From Telling Committee About Shocking, Illegal Activities

by Open-Publishing - Tuesday 13 June 2006
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Last month, ThinkProgress reported that NSA whistleblower Russell Tice would meet with members of the Senate Armed Services Committee to discuss undisclosed unlawful activity that the Agency has engaged in. “I think the people I talk to next week are going to be shocked when I tell them what I have to tell them,” Tice said.

Since that time, little has been reported of Tice’s meeting. CongressDaily (sub. req’d) follows-up today, “Tice met last month in a closed session with senior staff from the Senate Armed Services Committee. Tice said he told the staffers everything he knew. But he said the aides did not say how, or if, they would follow up on his allegations.”

CongressDaily also reports that House Government Reform National Security Subcommittee, through its Chairman Christopher Shays (R-CT) and ranking member Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), is seeking to interview Tice, but the NSA is resisting.

Tice said his information is different from the terrorist surveillance program that President Bush acknowledged in December and from news accounts last month that the NSA has been secretly collecting phone call records of millions of Americans. Because he worked on special access programs, however, it has not been clear on Capitol Hill which committees have jurisdiction to debrief him. Shays and Kucinich gave the NSA until Friday to explain any legal reason why they cannot interview him. But that deadline passed without a response, and a subcommittee aide today called the missed deadline troubling.

Shays and Kucinich had originally asked the NSA to give them a reason by May 26, but the agency asked for an extension until June 9. NSA spokesman Don Weber said today that the agency “is performing due diligence in developing a response to the committee’s request,” but added that Tice has not notified the agency of the alleged illegal activity. Tice said he does not believe he needs to notify the agency of his allegations.

Congress deserves to hear from Tice, who 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/2006/06/12/tice-follow-up/

Forum posts

  • What is NSA going to do with that data. We know Americans are dumb and just pretenders. Har har har...

  • I was in a family for more than 26 years who joined Organized Crime. The crime system is linked to a huge mammoth sized Political Corruption system extending from the lowest areas all the way to the top of our Federal Government. A large part of this involves a Military Corruption element that also includes a Rogue CIA element also.

    This group is highly skilled technically, especially in communications involving Internet and phone services. They also employ electronic ease dropping devices everywhere, in your homes, office, and anywhere they feel they need to listen to what you have to say. Wiretapping or ease dropping is used to support and manage their huge criminal system as there are many operations going on at any one time. Their operations involve Wide Scale Fraud involving Corporate America, International Drug Distribution (Chicago is a main Distribution Hub feeding the East Coast (New York) and Southern Part of the US (Florida) and much more. Hence, it doesn’t strike me as strange that NSA or anyone involved overlooking the NSA wiretapping function to NOT want to explain what they are really doing.

    This isn’t a group limited to just the US. They extend far beyond our shores into other countries as well, including the UK and many others. One of many examples told to me is that the war between Ireland and Briton that went on for years was started to support corruption. A simple example of who these other countries involved are might be to read through the European Group on Human Rights, by Dick Marty, released a few weeks ago. They list many countries functionally supporting the CIA Prisons scattered around Europe. But we also have Prisons here on US soil too, don’t we. They’re known as “Detention Centers” and few are pictured on the Internet. Of course, they wouldn’t be able to complete them as that would make the whole thing far too obvious. It’s also best to make those who question them look like they are crazy, so most of them are listed as property with only a few being completed. But they exist! Remember that. I realize this is a difficult issue, but I can assure you that something in this area is up.

    While married, my ex-wife’s family often talked about “When the Change Comes”! Finally sometime in the mid-90’s I was told about the Prisons and THREATENED that when that time comes, I need to be able to show which side I’m on. I was told “You’re Either With US or You’re Not!” and if I’m not, I would find myself in one of the Prisons.

    Another THREAT I was given was that if I talked to anyone about what I know, that I would find myself SETUP for a crime that would enable me to be legally executed. They referred to then Governor Bush of Texas, as he was involved with them and that in Texas they are getting rid of ‘Threatening” people. Threatening means those who threaten their movement!

    I agree that many who read this will find that the whole thing sounds insane. I certainly thought so when I was told, however over the years I’ve come to believe that what they told me is entirely true. Along with the Prison explanation was a discussion about our US One Dollar Bill. It was pointed out to me that there are symbols on the back of the One Dollar Bill that represent their movement towards a One World Order. Hence, the reasons why Prisons exist outside the US and here as well. Around the time when my wife and I just got married I was seduced into joining the “Free Masons”. We were invited more than a few times to meetings. I felt pushed and decided not to get involved. My father-in-law at the time was really excited with what my decision was. My ex-in-laws linked to a group who had a more direct link to a Secret Society called “Le Cercle” and they also have links to other groups as they aren’t separate individual groups.

    I’m not a conspiracy theorist. I’m only reporting what took place while I was married and relating some of that to what is happening in today’s news. Frankly, I believe we have a lot to worry about!

    Marty Didier
    Northbrook, IL