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NSA whistleblower asks to testify
The Washington Times ^ | 01/05/2006 | Bill Gertz

Posted on 01/05/2006 11:02:53 AM PST by Ronald Goldwater

NSA Whistleblower Asks to Testify

By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published January 5, 2006

"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," Mr. Tice stated in the Dec. 16 letters, copies of which were obtained by The Washington Times.

...Read the full story here.

The lid is about to blow.

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(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: congress; dia; gertz; illegal; learntosearch; nsa; old; ozone; patriotleak; russelltice; sniff; spying; tice; troll; washingtontimes; yesterday; zot
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1 posted on 01/05/2006 11:02:55 AM PST by Ronald Goldwater
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To: Ronald Goldwater

Check his political affiliations and donations.


2 posted on 01/05/2006 11:06:12 AM PST by jw777
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To: Ronald Goldwater

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


3 posted on 01/05/2006 11:07:47 AM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: Ronald Goldwater
He is NOT a Whistleblower, and just how many times does this stupid story have to be posted?
4 posted on 01/05/2006 11:08:05 AM PST by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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To: pbrown

I should have added at the end of the sentence...by going on the defensive.


5 posted on 01/05/2006 11:09:04 AM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: Ronald Goldwater
""I intend to report to Congress probable unlawful and unconstitutional acts"


So does that mean he THINKS they are unlawful?
6 posted on 01/05/2006 11:09:05 AM PST by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Ronald Goldwater

Please do not alter orginal headlines.


7 posted on 01/05/2006 11:13:46 AM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: Bigh4u2

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


----So does that mean he THINKS they are unlawful? ----

Suppose some member of the military in 1944 thought it would be unlawful to drop a bomb on Hiroshima and therefore disclosed our plan to do so???


8 posted on 01/05/2006 11:16:04 AM PST by Paloma_55 (Which part of "Common Sense" do you not understand???)
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To: Bigh4u2

This guy should have been dragged out his house in shackles on Christmas morning. Three weeks have gone by since this first hit, and the Dems have been allowed to frame the debate as "conscientous leakers" instead of the treasonous conspiracy that this represents.


9 posted on 01/05/2006 11:18:46 AM PST by Wristpin ("The Yankees have decided to buy every player in Baseball....")
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To: Ronald Goldwater
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.
10 posted on 01/05/2006 11:20:33 AM PST by Paloma_55 (Which part of "Common Sense" do you not understand???)
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To: Pukin Dog

Assume for an insane moment that he were a whistleblower. Is a whistleblower allowed to whistleblow to the New York Times? (Or as Ann Coulter is wont to say, The Treason Times.)

Isn't the statute pretty specific as to the procedures a whistleblower must follow in his/her whistleblowing?

("You just put your lips together and blow.")


11 posted on 01/05/2006 11:22:05 AM PST by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: Paloma_55

"Suppose some member of the military in 1944 thought it would be unlawful to drop a bomb on Hiroshima and therefore disclosed our plan to do so???"

The words "Firing Squad" come to mind.


12 posted on 01/05/2006 11:22:10 AM PST by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Ronald Goldwater
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

13 posted on 01/05/2006 11:32:02 AM PST by angkor
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To: Ronald Goldwater
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.
14 posted on 01/05/2006 11:35:13 AM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: Ronald Goldwater
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.

15 posted on 01/05/2006 11:39:11 AM PST by Steel Wolf (If the Founders had wanted the President to be spying on our phone calls, they would have said so!)
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To: Ronald Goldwater
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.
16 posted on 01/05/2006 11:42:10 AM PST by hermgem
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To: Ronald Goldwater

Tice, Tice... Sounds extremely familiar.


17 posted on 01/05/2006 11:46:45 AM PST by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: Bigh4u2
He is not acting alone. The dems and other internal enemies of this nation(probably clinton plants) are behind this.
18 posted on 01/05/2006 11:49:42 AM PST by gedeon3
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Tice (per the Rush Limbaugh show) is part of some "Whistleblower" group, made up largely of dismissed government employees (read: people with axes to grind). This same group was deeply involved with the Plame charade. Hmm, a picture is beginning to emerge...


19 posted on 01/05/2006 11:49:52 AM PST by Little Pig (Is it time for "Cowboys and Muslims" yet?)
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To: hermgem

See #13


20 posted on 01/05/2006 11:50:56 AM PST by angkor
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