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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.
"I was worried that the intelligence community now has sway over what is going on," Tice said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/20/russ-tice-nsa-obama_n_3473538.html
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At home & offices, the subjects of NSA surveillance is not about terrorism, it's about using info. and shaping outcomes.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)We've got a Stage Four corruption problem in the United States of America.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)The Huffington Post | By Nick Wing
Posted: 06/20/2013
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.
"I was worried that the intelligence community now has sway over what is going on," Tice said.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/20/russ-tice-nsa-obama_n_3473538.html
hedda_foil
(16,373 posts)It's a long one, but worth the listen.
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/06/19/podcast-show-112-nsa-whistleblower-goes-on-record-reveals-new-information-names-culprits/
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)seriously?
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Actually what interests me the most about the tap on Obama is that somebody, somebody important, had already singled him out for a future major political office. That indicates to me, more clearly than anything else, that the shadowy power players are actually running the show from the NSA.
The NSA is obviously used for industrial espionage and to ensure American economic imperialism so it only follows they'd be used to tap into the future lapdogs in order to ensure compliance down the road.
mother earth
(6,002 posts)And we are all "foreigners" now.