Russ Tice, former NSA whistleblower, reveals some new secrets of his own

[Waiting For Everyman]

This interview is from June 19th, 2013, a few weeks ago. The subject was the Snowden NSA leaks, but Tice got onto the subject of the potential for the NSA (or its many contractors) to blackmail our political leaders, at about 45 minutes into it.

Categories or wiretaps he saw himself: Lots of the following...

journalists and news agencies
high-ranking military officers
lawyers and law firms

members of Congress - Senate and House, both parties, especially those on the Intelligence Committees, Armed Services Committees, and Judiciary Committees

congressional staff
judges, 1 on the Supreme Court; 2 former FISA court judges
State Department officials
Executive Branch, including in the White House
anti-war groups
civil rights groups
US international corporations
Banks and financial firms
NGO's like the Red Cross


Named wiretaps he personally saw and processed:

Barack Obama in 2004
Hillary Clinton
Sen. Diane Feinstein
Sen. Orrin Hatch
Sen. Patrick Leahy
Sen. Carl Levin
Rep. James Saxton
Rep. Peter Hoekstra
Rep. Tom Davis
Sen. Henry Waxman
Sen. Jay Rockefeller
Sen. John McCain
Sen. Evan Bayh
Gen. Colin Powell
Gen. Eric Shinseki
Gen. David Petraeus


He said without hesitation that he thinks Petraeus was taken down by an NSA wiretap, possibly by Gen. Alexander. He said that the one Supreme Court judge he saw an order for was Alito, but that his coworkers still inside the NSA say that all 9 have been tapped.

He is very worried about the opportunity NSA has to blackmail political figures, in fact he says that is principally why he became a whistlblower. The capability is certainly there, which is a problem in itself. The potential for blackmail has always been recognized as a security risk. Now we have that to the nth degree within our own government.

Tice calls today's NSA "Hoover on steroids". That really seems to be an understatement, if anything.

[still_one]

1. And how many of those politicians voted for it?

[think]

2. Before or after they were illegally wiretapped?

[still_one]

3. Would be interesting to see

[Waiting For Everyman]

4. I'd really like to know if Hillary Clinton is aware that she was or is still being tapped?

She made that statement yesterday against Snowden. Did she do that knowing she was tapped, or not knowing? It's weird either way.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. If you and i and the readers of the article are aware..

I would suspect she is too.

[MinM]

6. NSA Blackmailing Obama?

@disinfo: #NSA Blackmailing Obama? http://goo.gl/fb/hB45z #news #edwardsnowden #nationalsecurityagency #obamablackmailing

[avaistheone1]

7. Insightful interview.

k&r

[DeSwiss]

8. ''...blackmail political leaders...''

- They're not ''ours.'' They never were.....

/fixed

K&R

[Douglas Carpenter]

9. knr

[MinM]

10. Was Obama blackmailed? Was Cheney in charge?

...Tice describes a secret spying program on America's generals, including David Petraeus and Colin Powell. NSA scuttlebutt held that Dick Cheney was behind it all.

Did they find something on Powell? That would explain a lot.

http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2013/07/obama-blackmailed.html