[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

[Steel Wolf]

Workers say broken system doesn't protect them from retaliation

You're only protected if you're not a crank. This guys clearly one of the many socially inept egotistical jerks that can be found at NSA and other nooks and crannies of the intelligence field. It just seems that in his case, he's way over the line with his eccentricities.

If I got fired from my job at one McDonalds for not coming to work on time, and then showed up as a 'whistleblower' against health code violations of a different McDonalds, why would anyone take me seriously?

They wouldn't.

So who cares? This is a guy with an axe to grind, and who wasn't part of the program in question.