Posted on 01/04/2006 9:05:52 PM PST by Sybeck1
Gertz: NSA whistleblower asks to testify; Vows to describe illegal intelligence operations... DEVELOPING...
Don't you just love the propaganda art. Guess they just figure if they use the Nazi style propaganda tactic of screaming their lies over and over and over, it will stick. Sickening that OUR side is too stupid to point out the LIE.
Good for him/her. Maybe we can get the illegal domestic spying stopped before Hillary or another Democrat has a chance to become president and use these powers (without judicial OK) to track political enemies. With a Dem in the White House, freepers might show a little more concern about unchecked government surveillance. As a traditional conservative, I believe in restraining government power, no matter who is in the White House.
NY Times lexicon: If you don't like him, he's a leaker. If he's your favorite martyr, he's a whistleblower.
The following letter was sent by wrongfully terminated National Security Agency (NSA) analyst Russ Tice to Shays prior to the postponement of the hearing:
28 NOV 2005
The Honorable Christopher H. Shays,
Chairman, Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and
International Relations,
U.S. House of Representatives,
1126 Longworth Building,
Washington, D.C. 20515-0704
Dear Congressman Shays,
I am a former intelligence officer with the National Security Agency (NSA), where I was retaliated against for following regulations, and reporting my suspicions that a coworker was involved in espionage.
I have recently found out that the mother of the person I suspected was very-highly placed at posts in the Department of Defense (DoD) at the Defense Information Security Agency (DISA), as a Deputy Under-Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon for Intelligence, and the Principal Deputy Director of the Defense Security Service (DSS).
She was granted these posts and given our country's highest security clearances despite the fact that, as young women, she was a product of Communist China who came to the United States in 1960. Considering this, I believe the prospect of her daughter being involved in espionage is greatly enhanced.
The means of retaliation used against me by the security office at NSA was to have me declared psychotic in order to revoke my security clearance. This action was taken despite the fact that the very same office at NSA conducted my routine psychological evaluation only nine months prior and found me to be normal.
The DoD Inspector General, and the Merit System Protection Board have already sanctioned this outrageous act. As you know, the whistleblower laws both current and proposed do not protect me from such a vile act as this. Consequently, I believe I would be a perfect candidate to testify at your subcommittee hearing on national security whistleblowers and the abuse of security clearances.
I have been informed by POGO that my name was submitted to your office as a candidate to testify at this hearing, yet I have received no word from you. From what I understand, your hearing will include the bureaucratic entities that condone and foster the very misconduct that is in question.
I likewise have heard that the two whistleblowers to appear were not removed from their posts nor were their security clearances revoked in retaliation. Can you please explain to me why I was not contacted by your office about this upcoming hearing or why no intelligence officers will be testifying? At this date I am still very willing to testify at your hearing and I would think that the retaliation dealt to me by the National Security Agency (NSA) would be very pertinent to a hearing on national security whistleblowers.
As it currently stands, your proposed hearing does not represent me or the abuses perpetrated against U.S. intelligence officers. It also omits the only organization that is specifically dedicated to national security whistleblowers, the National Security WhistleBlower Coalition (NSWBC).
To the detriment of the security of our citizens, the Intelligence Community (IC) is using security clearance revocations as weapons of retaliation to silence officers as a means of covering up malfeasance, misconduct, and incompetence. In this letter I have intentionally included some specifics of my case to alert you to the gravity of the potential consequences that involve national security whistleblowers.
It is with this in mind that I implore you to forgo the 06 December hearing and reschedule it to include intelligence officers that have been victims of security clearance abuses and other NSWBC members who have recent and firsthand knowledge of what these abuses mean in terms of our nation's security. Anything other will be a travesty of justice and a serious breach of faith of the American people in terms of their safety and security that is entrusted into your hands.
Very Respectfully,
Russell D. Tice
Former Intelligence Analyst & Action Officer, National Security Agency
Member, NSWBC
Gosh, I am ssoooooooooooooo surprised to see you on the wrong side of this issue.
Again.
Not.
Wow, that's worthy of McCarthy.
NSWBC Networking Partners
Project on Government Oversight (POGO)
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC)
Veteran Affairs Whistleblowers Coalition (VAWBC)
NSWBC Members (To view members bios click here.... )
Bergman, Bill, Former Senior Financial Market Analyst, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Bigelow, Steve, Retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, Joint Chiefs of Staff, J-33
Bittler, Thomas, Training Coordinator, TSA-DHS Black, P. Jeffrey, Federal Air Marshal (FAMS), TSA/DHS
Carman, John, Former Senior Inspector, U.S. Customs
Carpenter, Shawn, Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
Chudson, Jonathan, Former Special Agents, IG-Office, EPA
Cleary, Kevin J., Senior Special Agent, U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security/ICE & U.S. Customs Service (O.I.)
Cole, John M., Former Veteran Intelligence Operations Specialist, FBI
Conrad, David “Mark”, Retired Agent in Charge, Internal Affairs, U.S. Customs
Connolly, Frank, Senior Screening Manager @ Buffalo, TSA
Copley, James, Project Manager, DOE
Costello, Edward J. Jr., Former Special Agent, Counterintelligence, FBI
Cruse, Larry, Army Intelligence Analyst, DOD
Davidson, Kathaleen, Nuclear Security Training Coordinator, Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station
Dzakovic, Bogdan, Former Red Team Leader, FAA
Edmonds, Sibel, Former Language Specialist, FBI
Ellsberg, Dan, Former Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense (ISA), DOD
Elson, Steve, Veteran Agent, FAA
Forbes, David, Aviation, Logistics and Govt. Security Analysts
Gonzalez, Sandalio, Retired Federal Agent, DEA
Goodman, Melvin A., Former Senior Analyst/ Division Manager, CIA; Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy
Guagliardi, Ray, training coordinator, TSA-DHS
Hirsch, Daniel M., Foreign Service Officer, Department of State
Hnatio, John, Former International Program Manager, DNN, NNSA & DOE
Jenkins, Steve, Intelligence Analyst, NGIC, US Army Johnson, Larry, Deputy Director- Counterterrorism, Department of State; Analyst,CIA
Lau, Lok, Former Special Agent, Counterintelligence, FBI
Levine, Michael, Retired Supervisory Special Agent/Covert Operations Specialist, DEA
Lipsky, John, Supervisory Special Agent, FBI
Mansour, Joe, Occupational Safety Specialist, Federal Bureau of Prisons
MacMichael, David, Former Senior Estimates Officer, CIA
McGovern, Raymond L., Former Analyst, CIA McInerney, Cullen, Supervisory Special Agent, Joint Terrorism Task Force, Federal Air Marshal Service
Nunn, Sandy, Former Special Agent, US Customs
Pahle, Theodore J., Senior Intelligence Officer (Ret), DIA
Price, Paul, Language Analyst, NSA
Russell, William H., Computer Specialist, R & E Division, NSA
Sarshar, Behrooz, Retired Language Specialist, FBI
Savich, William, Special Agent, Bureau of Diplomatic Security, Department of State
Shaffer, Anthony Allen, Lieutenant Colonel, Senior Operations Officer, DIA-DOD
Springmann, Mike, Foreign Service Officer-5; Second Secretary & Vice Consul, Department of State
Starns, Robert, Special Agent in Charge, Diplomatic Security Service, Department of State
Stella, Marie V., Retired Lead Information System Security Officer, FAA
Stroup, Jay, Former Federal Security Director, TSA
Sullivan, Brian, Special Agent, Risk Program Management Specialist, FAA
Tice, Russ, Senior Intelligence Analyst & Action Officer, NSA
Tortorich, Larry J., Retired Naval Officer, US Navy & Dept. of Homeland Security/TSA,
Turner, Jane, Veteran Special Agent, FBI
Vincent, John, Veteran Special Agent, Counterterrorism, FBI
Walp, Glenn, PhD, Former Office Leader of the Office of Security Inquiries, Los Alamos National Lab, DOE
Woo, Robert, Special Agent, Counterintelligence, FBI
Wright, Robert, Veteran Special agent, Counterterrorism, FBI
Except there is no illegal domestic spying. Guess the law be damed. To hell with self defense of our society. It does NOT fit the Hollywood Sitcom view of the Law the rabid Bush haters have mythologies for themselves it MUST be illegal. Wrong again as usual.
It is PERFECECTLY legal. YOU do NOT have the ability to hide behind your Constitutional Rights while acting as an agent for a terrorists group. Read the damn law for once instead of just spewing out the same pseudo intellectual Civil Libertine hysteric nonsense. Once someone has actively conspire with our enemies we have a right to crush them. Time for the lunatic 60's generation to GROW up. ANYTHING a Government does can be abused.
Using the aggressively stupid ideas of the Loser Generation the Government should do NOTHING EVER because "it might be abused by a future Government".
Gee, the FBI may be abused again by a future Govt, using the absurd nonsense being advanced as "thinking" here we should abolish it. Since someone MAY abuse the Military some day we have to abolish it too. Sorry the world offends the products of the WORST Generation. Too bad. The world DOES NOT revolve around YOUR OWN PERSONAL emotional whimsy. We are a Constitutional Republic, NOT a Democracy. Your personal feelings about a law are meaningless
HELLO !!!
Looks like the dims and the NYSlimes have jumped into bed with a looney. How fitting!
When you find some, let me know and I'll agree with you. But as of right now, you're talking out your ass.
Congress or the courts have never had the ability to restrict the actions of the executive when gathering counterintelligence on our enemies during wartime.
And international electronic communications have been fair game for the intelligence agencies of any nation since international electronic communications were invented.
But you keep inventing laws that don't exist, if that's what keeps your high horse fed.
Actually, a lawyer for this scum may be problematic.
Isn't Lynne Stewart in jail? And Ramsey Clark is out of the country. Kunstler, of course is dead [grin]. Oh, I know! He should give Ron Kuby a call!
Can we start referring to whomever "outed" the non-covert (and previously outed) CIA employee Valerie Plame-it-on-Bush as a whistleblower?
I salute you for your excellent commentary on CHURCHILLBUFF's posts. Your analysis is succinct, yet throughly covers the terriority.
SOUNDS LIKE THIS LITTLE PUNK WAS GETTING WHAT HE DESERVED! SO NOW HE THREATENS NATIONAL SECURITY AND DECIDES TO HELP AL QAEDA IN RETALIATION!!??!
What a dickweed.
The problem is, none of the spying is domestic (you've latched onto that leftist spin hook, line and sinker).
And what makes you think Hillary! can be stopped even if there are laws in place?
The template of the Clinton's is to steer clear of any laws, and if successful, go out to the nearest podium, stand in front of cameras and reporters and give the American people the three-foot tall middle finger. Didn't the 8-year circus freak show, commonly referred to as the Clinton administration, teach you anything?
Don't tell me you trust a Clinton or any Democrat for that matter, to abide by the law. Because if you do, you're a damn fool.
Another 1960's generation, dope-smoking, maggot infested, phony baloney, "gather 'round and sing 'kum-bi-yah'", fembot socialist.
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