Reply #56: NSA Whistleblower Alleges Illegal Spying = NSA AND Defense!!

[L. Coyote]

Noteworthy herein is Tice's mention of both NSA and Defense. So Defense was also doing illegal spying????
Rumsfeld could be a target?? And Bush has not addressed how Defense spying was authorized. Maybe it was not.

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NSA Whistleblower Alleges Illegal Spying
Former Employee Admits to Being a Source for The New York Times
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1491889
By BRIAN ROSS
Jan. 10, 2006

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.

"I specialized in what's called special access programs," Tice said of his job. "We called them 'black world' programs and operations."

But now, 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 NSA .........

Tice ... 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.......