[jw777]

Check his political affiliations and donations.

[processing please hold]

I think it has finally occured to him that he broke state secrets and is now trying to cover his ass.

[Pukin Dog]

He is NOT a Whistleblower, and just how many times does this stupid story have to be posted?

[Bigh4u2]

""I intend to report to Congress probable unlawful and unconstitutional acts"


So does that mean he THINKS they are unlawful?

[Admin Moderator]

Please do not alter orginal headlines.

[Paloma_55]

In his Dec. 16 letter, Mr. Tice wrote that his testimony would be given under the provisions of the 1998 Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act, which makes it legal for intelligence officials to disclose wrongdoing without being punished.

I suppose it would have been too much for the newspaper to clarify this statement.

which makes it legal for intelligence officials to disclose wrongdoing TO CONGRESS without being punished.

I doubt the law allows disclosure of what one thinks is illegal, to the New York Times.

[angkor]

The following article was published 5 days before the NYT hit piece, and indeed before Tice made it clear he wanted to be a "whistleblower" about the NSA.

The article goes on to say that Tice's alleged "spy" colleague was exonerated, and that the report is unclassified. However I cannot locate it anywhere on www.dodig.mil.

In federal job: Blow whistle, get boot

Workers say broken system doesn't protect them from retaliation
By Rebecca Carr
WASHINGTON BUREAU
The Austin American-Statesman.

Sunday, December 11, 2005

WASHINGTON — Russell Tice was a senior intelligence analyst at the National Security Agency until he demanded to know in April 2003 what had happened to a report he had filed about a former colleague he suspected of spying for China. Two months later, he found himself checking coolant at the agency's motor pool.

Not only did Tice get demoted from the elite ranks of the intelligence community, but he was also deemed "paranoid" by one of the agency's psychologists, a death sentence in the intelligence field. Just nine months earlier, Tice had been found psychologically sound during a routine evaluation.

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/12/11whistleblower.html

[silverleaf]

Russ Tice, a whistleblower who was dismissed from the NSA last year

Do you have ANY idea how difficult it is to "dismiss" a federal employee? Sum ting wong here.

USAF LT General Mike Hayden, former head of NSA, now deputy for Homeland Security, is about as good a man as they come. Watch betwen the lines for honest fair reporting on the validity of what Mr. Tice claims.

[Steel Wolf]

Mr. Tice said yesterday that he was not part of the intercept program.

HELLO?! This guy wasn't even part of the program he's trying to testify against. He's just some crackpot who got fired and wants some payback.

[hermgem]

Russ Tice who has been dismissed last year from the agency claims that he possibly revealed secret information.
Russ is running for cover under Whistle blower protection as he realizes that his leakage will pop up.
He needs to be made aware that there are "rewards" out there for revealing his sources, what he passed along, and to whom.
His reward falls under lenient sentencing upon conviction for supporting to bring leaker's and recipients into the open.
What was the reason for his dismissal?
Is it for revealing National secretes, for which he signed and took an oath under a National Security confidentiality agreement.
Russ Tice got hot feet and tries to escape from answering for his breaking of oath.

[coconutt2000]

Tice, Tice... Sounds extremely familiar.

[Textphile]

"Russ Tice, a whistleblower who was dismissed from the NSA last year."


Disgruntled former employee.

[siunevada]

The letters were sent the same day that the New York Times revealed that the NSA was engaged in a clandestine eavesdropping program..... Mr. Tice said yesterday that he was not part of the intercept program.

Gee, wonder where Mr. Tice got his knowledge of this program?

[darkwing104]

Disgrunted former employee....

[Darksheare]

Only two posts?

No replies here yet?

[Mike Darancette]

"I intend to report to Congress probable unlawful and unconstitutional acts conducted while I was an intelligence officer with the National Security Agency and with the Defense Intelligence Agency,"

.... in regards to my strawberries that were missing from the refrigerator in the employee lunch room.