This repeated story makes me madder than hell every time I read it.
I would hardly call the vacuuming of international comm channels into the supercomputer farm "illegal wiretaps" since the computers are not "sentient beings". I would suggest to anyone trying to understand this that NSA is looking at millions of digital data streams daily and looking for a particular phone number or Internet IP address, AND one end of this link must be outside the US. Further analysis would then be to search for a particular term or group of words after the subject has been identified (or vice versa). NSA is prohibited from intercepting connections that both originate and terminate inside the US. How can any sane person argue this "outside US connection" is an "illegal wiretap" as defined by any definition? Wiretap Mystery: Spooks React
This Tice guy is way in over his head, and I know that he does not have enough knowledge to know if laws were broken or not. BUT in any event he should have followed the whistle blower regulations and retained an attorney - NOT run to the MSM. This is the felony crime that he has committed and he must be imprisoned and I don't want to hear some sanctimonious Congresscritter get up and start ranting on Bush and protecting this Tice guy. That action should create a storm of letters to Congress if any conservatives are paying attention - THIS GUY IS A TRAITOR JUST LIKE Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
I don't know if I'd go that far. The one that gave the missle technology to the Chinese, now that one is on a par with Ethel and Julius.
I think Leavenworth is a sufficient punishment for this joker. I think he would be "pushed around" a lot in jail. And no country club prisons for him either.