Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media

JCWDenton writes "Former National Security Agency analyst Russell Tice, who helped expose the NSA's warrantless wiretapping in December 2005, has now come forward with even more startling allegations. Tice told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on Wednesday that the programs that spied on Americans were not only much broader than previously acknowledged but specifically targeted journalists."

Comments

Lame

[geek]

Disgruntled ex-employee makes accusations with zero evidence. News at 11 I guess.

This guy was just an analyst, not some super high ranking official. The type of data he was privy too was low level and generic. He could say they were monitoring space aliens in Manhattan too and would be correct.

Some people just want to believe this stuff so much they'll grasp at any old straw that agrees with their narrow view of the government.

Re:Lame

[geek]

I was favored? Looks like I got 0 flamebait thanks to childish people such as yourself who look at a UID instead of content. Keep patting yourself on the back though, do it long enough and you may start to really believe you're popular on the internet and people like you.

Re:Lame

[thedonger]

People will believe whatever validates the opinions they already have. In other words, if the FOIA request is accepted and nothing is turned over which implicates Bush, Cheney, DIRNSA, etc., then the same people "breaking" this story will call them all liars.

So really, what's the point?

Reactionary.

[FatSean]

After all the bennies the outgoing failministration gave FoxNews, perhaps this guy felt that going to a more partisan journalist was a good thing. Does it matter who gets the story first, as everyone is on this?

Your concern smells trollish.

Re:Reactionary.

[sumdumass]

By killing Al Qaeda terrorists, we created sympathy for them therefor boldtering their support and aiding them.

You can reach and grab all you want, it just make it logical or true. Prosecuting a war in another theator cannot be giving aid because someone got support. That's just ridiculous. Your comment right there gives sympathy and support thus aid, does that make you a traitor guilty of treason?

Seriously, think about that. Someone else is going to be willing to stretch it just as far as you can, are you willing to accept the results?

Re:Well, duh

[Prune]

The source is professor Arthur Herman and other scholars cited in the article, you cretinous imbecile. By the way, I suggest you look up argumentum ad verecundiam and ad hominem.

MSNBC? Keith Olbermann?

[Anonymous Coward]

Let me know when /. decides to balance this "story" with something from Chris Wallace and Fox News. As a newsman, Keith Olbermann is a very mediocre sportscaster. Yes, as a matter of fact, I do question the source on this one, just as I question Fox News.

man

[Reality Master 201]

You really do love apologizing for whatever deeply un-American shit the Bushies did. People like you are what will kill our liberties.

Re:Well, duh

[QRDeNameland]

The source is professor Arthur Herman and other scholars cited in the article, you cretinous imbecile. By the way, I suggest you look up argumentum ad verecundiam and ad hominem.

Perhaps you should as well.

Appeal to authority

Ad hominem

Re:What's next? Chime in

[Darby]

We might start thinking about what sort of precedent this sets for subsequent American administrations.

The precedent that the President is above the law was set in stone with Ford's Folly.
Following that, Reagan sold cocaine to buy weapons for terrorists and is the patron saint of the Republican party still for the love of anything holy.

This is just more of the same, not a new precedent.

Re:Well, duh

[spun]

Oh, you are so full of it! Do you honestly expect anyone to believe that your MULTIPLE comments on this page asserting that you worked with Tice were ALL jokes? My hat's off; it takes huge brass balls to lie that brazenly. But please, do explain your little joke. It's always amusing to watch a liar try to wriggle off the hook.

Re:Well, duh

[spun]

Please go read a reputable history of the Great Depression. The New Deal worked. By the mid 1930s, we were doing better than before the crash. It was Republican interference in 1937 that caused FDR to back off some of his New Deal promises, and THAT caused another mini-depression.

Re:Well, duh

[Archangel Michael]

How about blaming the guy who released him from custody over political dogma?

I'm not sure you realize that the chances of those in Gitmo trying to blow more shit up and kill more people upon release is actually quite high.

And just about no sane country wants them. I suggest we release them in Delaware or Connecticut, where most people are against GITMO. Or perhaps William Ares will take them in! After all they have so much in common!

Re:Well, duh

[spun]

You are offended when someone calls your pet theory names? ACs made your points for you? It's all just hot air, again, unfounded assertions. You say the New Deal didn't end the recession. Prove it or shut up.