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[Howlin]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE APRIL 27, 2005 2:15 PM	CONTACT: National Security Whistleblowers Coalition  Sibel Edmonds, (703) 519-3640, sibeldeniz@aol.com
National Security Whistleblowers Coalition: Congress, Whistleblower Protection & Accountability
WASHINGTON -- April 27 -- What: An unprecedented group of national security whistleblowers have formed a united front as the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC). They will collectively attend two bipartisan congressional meetings today to demand that Congress act to end government retaliation against those who expose national security blunders, that Congress hold hearings into the federal governmenta's actions against whistleblowers, and that Congress act to require individual accountability for retaliation against whistleblowers. The congressional meetings will be followed by a press conference featuring speakers from the NSWBC and guest speakers. Speakers: Sibel Edmonds, Former Language Specialist, FBI Coleen Rowley, Retired Agent and former division counsel, FBI John Vincent, Veteran Special Agent, FBI Mike German, Veteran Special Agent, FBI Russ Tice, Senior Intelligence Analyst & Action Officer, NSA Jesselyn Radack, Former Counsel, DOJ Guest Speakers: Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA) Mark Zaid, attorney, Krieger Zaid LLC Professor William Weaver, University of Texas Danielle Brian, Director, Project on Government Oversight (POGO) Tom Devine, Legal Director, Government Accountability Project (GAP) Dan Ellsberg, Founder, Truth Telling Project   Date: Thursday, April 28 Time: 1:30 PM- 3:00PM Location: 122 Cannon House Office Building, SE, Washington, DC Background: Since the September 11th terrorist attacks, whistleblowers have felt compelled to come forward in greater numbers to address our nation's security weaknesses in fact almost 50% more have sought protection annually under the Whistleblower Protection Act since that terrible event.  However, patriotic truth-tellers across a variety of federal agencies have no protection against retaliation when they blow the whistle. Today, the federal government's policies support and reinforce wrongdoers who would seek to silence whistleblowers by demoting them, taking away their security clearances, or firing them. In recent days that point was illustrated in the case of FBI Special Agent Robert Wright, who has been critical of the efforts to pursue terrorists. Without whistleblower protections, agencies will continue to quash truth tellers and national security weaknesses will be allowed to fester underneath the growing cloak of secrecy. 1. Anderson, Mick, Former Senior Advisor for Policy, DOJ, 2. Bittler, Thomas, Training Coordinator, TSA-DHS, 3. Carman, John, Former Senior Inspector, U.S. Customs, 4. Carson, Joe, Nuclear Safety Engineer, DOE 5. Chambers, Theresa, Former National Park Service Police Chief, 6. Costello, Edward J. Jr., Former Special Agent, Counterintelligence, FBI, 7. Cole, John M., Former Veteran Intelligence Operations Specialist, FBI, 8. Coleman, Marsha Adebeyo, Senior Policy Analyst, EPA, 9. Conrad, David “Markâ€?, Retired Agent in Charge, Internal Affairs, U.S. Customs, 10. Cruse, Larry, Army Intelligence Analyst, DOD, 11. Czarkowski, Carol, Navy-DOD, 12. Dew, Rosemary, Veteran Supervisory Special Agent, Counterterrorism, FBI 13. Dzakovic, Bogdan, Former Red Team Leader, FAA, 14. Edmonds, Sibel, Former Language Specialist, FBI 15. Ellsberg, Dan, Former Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense (ISA), DOD, 16. Elson, Steve, Veteran Agent, FAA, 17. Fogg, Matthew F., Chief Deputy US Marshal, (INA), 18. Foley, Theresa, Special Agent, FBI, 19. Forbes, David, Aviation, Logistics and Govt. Security Analysts, Boyd Forbes, Inc., 20. German, Mike, Former Special Agent, Counterterrorism, FBI, 21. Goodman, Melvin A., Former Senior Analyst/ Division Manager, CIA; Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy, 22. Graf, Mark, Former Security Supervisor & Derivative Classifier, DOE, 23. Graham, Gilbert, Veteran Special Agent, Counterintelligence, FBI 24. Jenkins, Steve, Intelligence Analyst, NGIC, US Army 25. Johnson, Manny, Former Supervisory Special Agent, Counterterrorism, FBI 26. Kleiman, Diane, Former Special Agent, US Customs, 27. Kwiatkowski, Karen U., Lt. Col. USAF (ret.), Veteran Policy Analyst-DOD, 28. Larkin, Lynne A., Former Operations Officer, CIA, 29. Lewis, Linda, Current Emergency Program Specialist (WMD), FSIS- USDA 30. Lau, Lok, Former Special Agent, Counterintelligence, FBI 31. MacMichael, David, Former Senior Estimates Officer, CIA, 32. McGovern, Raymond L., Former Analyst, CIA, 33. Nunn, Sandy, Former Special Agent, US Customs, 34. Pahle, Theodore J., Senior Intelligence Officer (Ret), DIA, 35. Radack Jesselyn, Former Counsel, DOJ, 36. Rowley, Coleen, Retired Special Agent and Former Division Counsel, FBI, 37. Sarshar, Behrooz, Retired Language Specialist, FBI, 38. Spaulding, Kerry, Veteran Agent, FAA 39. Sullivan, Brian F., Special Agent, Risk Program Management Specialist, FAA, 40. Tice, Russ, Senior Intelligence Analyst & Action Officer, NSA, 41. Tortorich, Larry J., Retired Naval Officer, US Navy & Dept. of Homeland Security/TSA, 42. Turner, Jane, Veteran Special Agent, FBI, 43. Vincent, John, Veteran Special agent, Counterterrorism, FBI 44. Walp, Glenn, PhD, Former Office Leader of the Office of Security Inquiries, Los Alamos National Lab, DOE, 45. Wehrly, Dot, Veteran Special Agent (Current), FBI, 46. Whitehurst, Dr. Fred, (Retired) Supervisory Special Agent/Laboratory Forensic Examiner, FBI, 47. Woo, Robert, Former Special Agent, Counterintelligence, FBI, 48. Wright, Ann, Col. US Army (ret.); and Former Foreign Service officer 49. Wright, Robert, Veteran Special agent, Counterterrorism, FBI 50. Zipoli, Matthew J., Former Special Response Team (SRT) Officer, DOE,

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[Howlin]

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