January 11, 2006
Fired NSA Stalker Admits Role as Times Source
Move over Bill Burkett, we've got a new player vying for "most disreputable source" status.
Via ABC News:
Russell Tice, a longtime insider at the National Security Agency, is now a whistleblower the agency would like to keep quiet.For 20 years, Tice worked in the shadows as he helped the United States spy on other people's conversations around the world.
...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.
Now here is what ABC didn't tell you.
Tice was diagnosed by the Defense Department with psychotic paranoia and fired for apparently violating his security clearances by taking unauthorized peeks into the background of a female Asian employee he thought was a Chinese spy.
I wonder of James Risen realizes that the Ides of Mapes are upon him...
Pretty disgusting, isn't it, CY? I'm sure that Risen, The NYT and ABC paid the fat pig to appear. Now that he has had his few moments of fame as what the Dems call a 'Courageous Whistleblower,' maybe he can be prosecuted to the full extent of the law under USC 18, 798 for devulging classified information to unauthorized recipients.
Gotta go after Risen and Lichtblau and the NYT now for their role is all this.
Posted by: Retired Spy at January 10, 2006 11:33 PMI don't think Tice is the leak source. He has come forward to testify that such operations occured and in his opinion were illegal. The liberals are full of 15 minute famers. Tice is going to prove to me a mistake on the lib's part.
Posted by: Old Soldier at January 11, 2006 07:07 AMSounds like your typical federal worker who's been in the cubicle too long.
Posted by: Fed Worker at January 11, 2006 07:18 AMNice smear... 1 problem: the factual claims have nevee been deinied, and there are over a dozen sources in the Risen book. Maybe Newsmax will tell you what to think about the rest... but it will be easier, methinks, to go with the whole: "all of the CIA and NSA are commie fags" kind of argument. It'll be easier to wrap your "mind" around, AND it will make a nice bumper sticker for your pick-up truck!!!
Posted by: chuck at January 11, 2006 01:37 PMTice was fired because he stalked a fellow employee and more importantly, broke security protocols, which- big shocker - he did again by going to the NY Times with his as yet unproven claims. He did not follow the whistleblower process put in place to protect legitimate whistleblowing, and thereby commited a felony. And yes, he was clinically diagnosed as a paranoia, which is something that I suspect quite a few liberals have in common with him.
Which "factual claims" have never been denied?
Two Attorneys General, the Justice Department, the White House Counsel, the head of the NSA and NSA lawyers, along with a growing number of respected constitutional scholars from both sides hold that these NSA programs were, as far as we can tell, plausibly legal.
Time for you to hitch onto some facts, junior.
Posted by: Confederate Yankee at January 11, 2006 01:59 PMInteresting.
Twenty years at the agency then he makes some noise about possible illegal survellance and he's a 'psychotic'.
The Russians used to do that sort of thing.
Posted by: ArthurStone at January 13, 2006 10:10 AMBoy, Artie ... Do you just specialize in spouting off incorrect information and making idiotic claims? You're surely doing a good job of it.
Donut Boy Tice was at the NSA for a very short time before they did the psych evaluation, and they pulled his clearances and put him in the Motor Pool because he was assessed as being afflicted with Psychotic Paranoia. He had previously been at the DIA. That is where he stalked a fellow employee, claiming she was a spy. DIA should have evaluated him long before he went to the NSA.
DIA was glad to see him want to transfer to the NSA, and NSA was probably none the wiser at first. Things sometimes work that way in the Federal Service - pawn the bonehead off onto another office or agency.
He had no first-hand knowledge of the surveillance program, nor was he qualified to assess its legality or whether or not the exposure of the program was a violation of USC 18, 792. He was just a dumb slug with serious mental problems.
You want him as the poster boy for the Democtats? You can have him.
Posted by: Retired Spy at January 14, 2006 03:04 AMCorrection: That's USC 18, 798.
Posted by: Retired Spy at January 14, 2006 03:10 AM
