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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."
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.
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.
Blar.
As popular as it is to diss McCarthy, the guy's an American hero, and most of his accusations are now known to have been spot on: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17401
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
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.
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
FDR, Lincoln, and any serious President would do the same thing.
Lincoln? Lincoln!?!? The worst president ever and you use him as an example of a serious president? The guy divided the country in two, suspended due process and more or less made a mockery of the position he held and you count him as a serious president?!
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.
You really do love apologizing for whatever deeply un-American shit the Bushies did. People like you are what will kill our liberties.
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
Momentarily, the need for the construction of new light will no longer exist.
Funny how the liberals and democrats are the new McCarthyists. The oppressed becomes the oppressor, I guess. Or: Everyone wants the power to oppress, it's just a matter of who gets it.
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.
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.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
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.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
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!
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
"Does it really matter if people were "commies"?"
Does it matter if people are Nazis? That's a rhetorical question, really, because the answer is "Hell Yes".
"Its just a political ideology, and just like the rest of them, it has good points and bad points."
This is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen posted here on Slashdot, and that's saying a lot. If I could mod you -1 Clueless I would. Communism was as bad as National Socialism ever was. Nazis were just more open about their plans for genocide, but when you crunch the numbers, communism accomplished a lot more in the murder category. Commies (and yes, I use that term intentionally) were just less creative about how they committed mass murder... the skipped the whole elaborate Xyklon-off-the-trains scenario, and went straight to firing squads and starvation. Your thinking is a prime example of what we used to call "The Banality of Evil"... the ideal that evil is overblown and really, isn't that big a deal. In your case, the ghosts of 60+ million people would disagree.
Life is hard, and the world is cruel
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.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton