NSA Spying On Congress, Admirals, Lawyers Content As Well As Metadata Cheney Was Running the Show <\/p>\n
NSA whistleblower Russel Tice was a key source in the 2005 New York Times report that blew the lid off the Bush administrations use of warrantless wiretapping. <\/p>\n
Tice told PBS and other media that the NSA is spying on and blackmailing top government officials and military officers, including Supreme Court Justices, highly-ranked generals, Colin Powell and other State Department personnel, and many other top officials: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
He says the NSA started spying on President Obama when he was a candidate for Senate: <\/p>\n
Many of Tices allegations have been confirmed by other government whistleblowers. And see this. <\/p>\n
Washingtons Blog called Tice to find out more about what he saw when he was at NSA. <\/p>\n
RUSSELL TICE: We now know that NSA was wiretapping [Senator] Frank Church and another Senator. [That has been confirmed.] <\/p>\n
And that got out by accident. All the information the NSA had back then and probably many other senators and important people too, back in the 70s they shredded and they destroyed all of that evidence. As much as they could find, they destroyed it all. By accident, something popped up 40 years later. <\/p>\n
And, in fact, they were asked 40 years ago whether NSA had bugged Congress. And, of course, they lied. They lied through their teeth. <\/p>\n
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