Rising Hegemon
Anyhoo, some people stay up later than me and can notice things like oh -- one of the NSA Whistleblowers being interviewed by Nightline and Scout was one of those.
His name is Russ Tice.
Russell Tice, a longtime insider at the National Security Agency, is now a whistleblower the agency would like to keep quiet...
...Tice tells ABC News that some of those secret "black world" operations run by the NSA were operated in ways that he believes violated the law. He is prepared to tell Congress all he knows about the alleged wrongdoing in these programs run by the Defense Department and the National Security Agency in the post-9/11 efforts to go after terrorists...
...President Bush has admitted that he gave orders that allowed the NSA to eavesdrop on a small number of Americans without the usual requisite warrants.
But Tice disagrees. He says the number of Americans subject to eavesdropping by the NSA could be in the millions if the full range of secret NSA programs is used.
"That would mean for most Americans that if they conducted, or you know, placed an overseas communication, more than likely they were sucked into that vacuum," Tice said. ...
...The NSA revoked Tice's security clearance in May of last year based on what it called psychological concerns and later dismissed him. Tice calls that bunk and says that's the way the NSA deals with troublemakers and whistleblowers. Today the NSA said it had "no information to provide."
Bush wants this guy thrown in jail and calls him unpatriotic.
Meanwhile, Karl Rove, who leaked the name of a CIA Operative remains Bush's chief political counselor and as far as anyone can tell continues to have his security clearance untouched.
George Bush, and far too many Republicans, they can more about themselves and their party than they do their country.
And they imply we are unpatriotic.
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