WTF? Russ Tice, Bush-Era Whistleblower, Claims NSA Ordered Wiretap Of Barack Obama In 2004

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/20/russ-tice-nsa-obama_n_3473538.html
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Russ Tice, a former intelligence analyst who in 2005 blew the whistle on what he alleged was massive unconstitutional domestic spying across multiple agencies, claimed Wednesday that the NSA had ordered wiretaps on phones connected to then-Senate candidate Barack Obama in 2004.

Speaking on "The Boiling Frogs Show," Tice claimed the intelligence community had ordered surveillance on a wide range of groups and individuals, including high-ranking military officials, lawmakers and diplomats.

"Here's the big one ... this was in summer of 2004, one of the papers that I held in my hand was to wiretap a bunch of numbers associated with a 40-something-year-old wannabe senator for Illinois," he said. "You wouldn't happen to know where that guy lives right now would you? It's a big white house in Washington, D.C. That's who they went after, and that's the president of the United States now."

Host Sibel Edmonds and Tice both raised concerns that such alleged monitoring of subjects, unbeknownst to them, could provide the intelligence agencies with huge power to blackmail their targets.

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1. They may have done Nixon, too.

Google: Yeoman Radford Affair

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4. Thanks leveymg

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2. Looking up Russ Tice here and other sites from back in the day:

It is interesting how RW sites demonized him and folks here defended him.

Now with Snowden it seems to be somewhat of a 180....

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3. I remember

Sibel was also a heroine back in the day.
Truth be told there is something about Snowdon that is problematic but he doesn't matter - the spying matters.