Whistleblower says NSA violations bigger - Privacy World

[helderheid]

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Whistleblower says NSA violations bigger

A former NSA employee said Tuesday there is another ongoing
top-secret surveillance program that might have violated millions of
Americans' Constitutional rights.

Russell D. Tice told the House Government Reform Subcommittee on
National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations he
has concerns about a "special access" electronic surveillance
program that he characterized as far more wide-ranging than the
warrentless wiretapping recently exposed by the New York Times but
he is forbidden from discussing the program with Congress.

Tice said he believes it violates the Constitution's protection
against unlawful search and seizures but has no way of sharing the
information without breaking classification laws. He is not even
allowed to tell the congressional intelligence committees - members
or their staff - because they lack high enough clearance.

Neither could he brief the inspector general of the NSA because that
office is not cleared to hear the information, he said.

Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., and Dennis
Kucinich, D-Ohio, said they believe a few members of the Armed
Services Committee are cleared for the information, but they said
believe their committee and the intelligence committees have
jurisdiction to hear the allegations.

"Congressman Kucinich wants Congressman Shays to hold a hearing (on
the program)," said Doug Gordon, Kucinich's spokesman. "Obviously
it would have to take place in some kind of a closed hearing. But
Congress has a role to play in oversight. The (Bush) administration
does not get to decide what Congress can and can not hear."

Tice was testifying because he was a National Security Agency
intelligence officer who was stripped of his security clearance
after he reported his suspicions that a former colleague at the
Defense Intelligence Agency was a spy. The matter was dismissed by
the DIA, but Tice pressed it later and was subsequently ordered to
take a psychological examination, during which he was declared
paranoid. He is now unemployed.

Tice was one of the New York Times sources for its wiretapping
story, but he told the committee the information he provided was not
secret and could have been provided by an private sector electronic
communications professional.

Until next issue stay cool and remain low profile!

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[marbuc]

1. Privacy World...

so private I have never heard of it.

[helderheid]

3. heheh SHHHHH!

[Roland99]

2. UPI is running it >>>>>>

http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060214-053955-9494r


Just realized that's two months old. Not like we'd ever find anything about it anyway.

[helderheid]

4. I hadn't seen that!