Edward Snowden Says He Sought Booz Allen Hamilton Job To Gather NSA Surveillance Evidence

Just one day after the Inauguration, RussellTice, the NSA whistleblower who originally participated in that agency's illegal warrantless wiretapping program, and revealed details of same to the NewYorkTimes' back in late 2005, has now come forward with more details that he'd been disinclined to release previously (he had been, after all, hounded by the FBI, subpoenaed by a grand jury, etc. after his original, heroic revelations.)

He spoke yesterday on MSNBC, revealing that American journalists were targeted by Bush's program which "had access to all Americans' communications." Please watch the remarkable video interview at right. Both that, and the text below, is from RAW STORY's coverage last night...

"The NationalSecurityAgency had access to all Americans' communications --- faxes, phone calls, and their computer communications," Tice claimed. "It didn't matter whether you were in Kansas, in the middle of the country, and you never made foreign communications at all. They monitored all communications."

"In one of the operations that I was in, we looked at organizations, just supposedly so that we would not target them," Tice told Olbermann. "What I was finding out, though, is that the collection on those organizations was 24/7 and 365 days a year --- and it made no sense. ... I started to investigate that. That's about the time when they came after me to fire me."

When Olbermann pressed him for specifics, Tice offered, "An organization that was collected on were US news organizations and reporters and journalists."


"To what purpose?" Olbermann asked. "I mean, is there a file somewhere full of every email sent by all the reporters at the NewYorkTimes? Is there a recording somewhere of every conversation I had with my little nephew in upstate New York?"

Tice didn't answer directly, but simply stated, "If it was involved in this specific avenue of collection, it would be everything."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/16program.html?_r=1

http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-bombshell-nsa-revelations-from-russell-tice/

http://www.bradblog.com/?cat=108

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/foreign-policy/war-terror/ex-intelligence-agent-russell-tice-says-us-not-telling-truth
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Edward Snowden Says He Sought Booz Allen Hamilton Job To Gather NSA Surveillance Evidence

RussellTice offers additional, startling details on NSA's warrantless eavesdropping on American citizens...

As we've been predicting for some weeks ago, the flood of revelations that would be flowing forth after Obama was sworn in would likely make what we currently know about Bush Era illegalities and incompetence seem like barely the tip of the iceberg.

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Edward Snowden Going To Ecuador To Seek Asylum: WikiLeaks

Snowden is a turncoat and a traitor, who BROKE THE LAW HIMSELF.

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If what the NSA and CIA, et al, have been and are doing is legal (not Constitutional, but legal) then what's the problem with the American people knowing about it?

Everybody else seems to.
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Edward Snowden Going To Ecuador To Seek Asylum: WikiLeaks

Where were you when the Patriot Act was being debated, probably somewhere cheerleading, now trying to show fake outrage.

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Unlike you, I have a long paper trail on the record.  Your rant implies I'm somehow a Bushie, when anyone who has been here for longer than 20 minutes knows I'm an old OLD liberal Democrat who has worked for decades trying to hold back the fascist neocons and neolibs who have been controlling our government.  I spoke out against the Patriot Act when Joe Biden tried to get it passed into law in 1995.   Where were you?

Who are you?  How do you possibly defend a president who acts outside the law, renditioning, imprisoning and killing Americans without due process or any oversight?  
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Edward Snowden Says He Sought Booz Allen Hamilton Job To Gather NSA Surveillance Evidence

Too rarely mentioned is the combination of nonviolence and idealism that has been integral to the courageous whistleblowing by Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning. Right now, one is on a perilous journey across the globe in search of political asylum, while the other is locked up in a prison and confined to a military trial excluding the human dimensions of the case. At a time of Big Brother and endless war, Snowden and Manning have bravely insisted that a truly better world is possible.
Meanwhile, top policymakers in Washington seem bent on running as much of the world as possible.
Their pursuit of Edward Snowden has evolved into a frenzied rage.

Those at the top of the U.S. government insist that Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning have betrayed it. But that’s backward. Putting its money on vast secrecy and military violence instead of democracy, the government has betrayed Snowden and Manning and the rest of us.

Trying to put a stop to all that secrecy and violence, we have no assurance of success. But continuing to try is a prerequisite for realistic hope.

A few months before the invasion of Iraq, looking out at Baghdad from an upper story of a hotel, I thought of something Albert Camus once wrote. “And henceforth, the only honorable course will be to stake everything on a formidable gamble: that words are more powerful than munitions.”

Edward Snowden’s honorable course has led him to this historic moment. The U.S. government is eager to pay him back with retribution and solitary. But many people in the United States and around the world are responding with love and solidarity.
 
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Edward Snowden Going To Ecuador To Seek Asylum: WikiLeaks

Please, you insult all that have a higher education.

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That would make me self-loathing, and I assure you, I'm hardly that.  Except maybe on days when I see the heroisim of someone like Snowden and have to scratch my head to recall the last time I acted with such courage.

You can keep running around like Henny Penny, saying Snowden's put lives in danger, yet you can't name one person that it's true about.  Snowden's not made any foreign policy, but your choice of Zbigniew Brezezinski as the north star on the matter tells me you've swallowed the Kool-Aid - You're a good little sock puppet.

Snowden has told us what our government is doing to us, after our government has denied doing it.
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Edward Snowden Going To Ecuador To Seek Asylum: WikiLeaks

Guilty until proven innocent?  That's not how we do things in this country, although I'm not surprised at your confusion in this matter given as how neocons and neolibs have been ratcheting up the disinformation games.  But unless you shake them off, you can't claim to be a patriotic, Constitution-loving American.
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