The Surveillance State: What To Say To People Who Say, "I've Got Nothing To Hide"

This should be widely shared. It looks like the massive potential of NSA to blackmail political figures, judges, lawyers, CEOs and etc. to manipulate the US domestic and foreign policies, judicial system, legislatures, media, corporations, banks and so on might have already done grave damages to achieve crucial military and corporate agendas. An NSA whistleblower Russ Tice claims key government figures, including president Obama and numerous others have been under surveillance.

“I had my hand literally on the paperwork,” he told Peter B. Collins. “They went after members of Congress, the Senate and the House, especially on the intelligence and armed services committees and the judicial committee, but they went after other ones, too. They went after lawyers and law firms and they went after judges. They went after State Department officials… They went after U.S. international corporations, U.S. banking firms and financial firms. They went after NGOs (non-governmental organizations) like the Red Cross and people like that, that go overseas and do humanitarian work…

“Don’t tell me there’s no abuse because I had this stuff in my hands, I looked at it, and in some cases I was literally involved in the technology that was going after this stuff. When I said to (Keith) Olbermann, my thing is high tech, the other thing is the dragnet… the terrestrial dragnet. Well, my specialty is outer space, I deal with satellites, everything that goes in and out of space, I did my spying, that’s how I found out about this.”

Question: this creates the potential for massive blackmail…

“Absolutely. I was worried that the intelligence community now has sway over what is going on. I haven’t given you any names. This was in the summer of 2004. One of the papers I had in my hands was a bunch of numbers associated with a forty-something wanna-be Senator from Illinois, that’s who they went after…

“I can give you names of a bunch of different people they went after that I saw, the names and phone numbers of congress people and not only them, what looked like staff people, too, and not only their congressional offices, their home state offices. This thing is incredible what NSA’s done. They turned themselves into a rogue agency that has J. Edgar Hoover capabilities on a monstrous scale, on steroids.”

http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/06/19/podcast-show-112-nsa-whistleblower-goes-on-record-reveals-new-information-names-culprits/

Blackmail by Richard Raznikov
http://lookingglass.blog.co.uk/2013/06/20/blackmail-16146634/

Revealed: the top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant
Fisa court submissions show broad scope of procedures governing NSA's surveillance of Americans' communication

• Document one: procedures used by NSA to target non-US persons
• Document two: procedures used by NSA to minimise data collected from US persons
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/20/fisa-court-nsa-without-warrant