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More Claims From NSA Whistleblower Russell Tice

Posted by Soulskill on from the where-does-it-end dept.

eldavojohn writes "Russell Tice, former NSA employee & whistleblower, has revealed yet more details claiming that wiretapping was combined with credit card data to target civilians. He also suggests the CEOs of major companies hold the truth: 'To get at what's really going on here, the CEOs of these telecom companies, and also of the banking and credit card companies, and any other company where you have big databases, those are the people you have to haul in to Congress and tell them you better tell the truth.' Will Congress follow his suggestions?" This adds to information revealed by Tice last week that the wiretaps targeted journalists in particular.

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  1. Hard evidence by LittleLebowskiUrbanA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People are saying this guy was just a mid level analyst. Does he have any hard evidence or is he just drumming up publicity to sell a book?

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    1. Re:Hard evidence by Shakrai · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Second, does the friggin' Telecom Immunity Bill ring a bell?

      Good thing Obama filibustered that thing like he promise.... oh, never mind.....

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    2. Re:Hard evidence by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Ah, so that means ... that there's nothing to look for? How does that work?

      It means the savior is a calculating (some would say lying) politician like any other, all claims to "change" notwithstanding. There is still a large contingent of followers who refuse to accept this and provide all manner of rationalizations.

    3. Re:Hard evidence by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 5, Insightful

      obama this and obama that.

      1) he's human
      2) humans are corruptable
      3) presidency always ALWAYS corrupts (its too much power for any single human being to weild)

      draw your own conclusions.

      I expect nothing 'new' from obama. the machine is what matters and he's only a small cog; a figurehead. the machine LIKES power and will never give it up once it has it. have we not seen that play over and over, in history?

      obama won't be as evil as bush but he's human and will be corrupted by the power he received. its not his fault but ours for giving TOO much power, essentially unchecked by The People, to our own government. the gov no longer works for us, it thinks we work for it. its already broken beyond repair, sorry to say.

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  2. Why does Obama support this? by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If we assume, for the sake of argument, that Obama hasn't been flat-out lying about his desire for a government that obeys the law, then does anyone know why he supports this kind of BS?

    So far, I haven't seen any change I can believe in. And I voted for him.

    1. Re:Why does Obama support this? by Spazztastic · · Score: 5, Insightful

      p>So far, I haven't seen any change I can believe in. And I voted for him.

      It's been only a week. Don't you know how slow things move with the government?

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    2. Re:Why does Obama support this? by Shakrai · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Don't you know how slow things move with the government?

      Ding, ding, ding, mod parent up. Whether or love Obama or hate him expecting real change on a ship the size of the Federal Government in ten days is pretty unrealistic.

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  3. We need investigations by Bemopolis · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is exactly what someone would say if he were a disgruntled ex-employee fired for insubordination.
    This is exactly what someone would say if he were flogging a book.
    This is exactly what someone would say if he were a partisan hack who did not like the previous administration.
    and
    This is exactly what someone would say if it were true and he were loyal to America rather than the party in power at the time.

    Either a lot of Bushies need to go to jail, or Tice does.

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