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Russell Tice Confirms Everything We’ve Surmised About Bush’s Illegal Wiretap Program By: emptywheel Thursday January 22, 2009 7:09 am

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Teddy linked to the stunning Russell Tice appearance on Keith O tonight. I wanted to add a few points.

First, Tice's description of the program confirms everything we have surmised about the program. The program:

• Established the means to collect all American communications
• Analyzed meta-data to select a smaller subset of communications to tap further
• Conducted human analysis of those messages

That is, the Bush administration used meta-data (things like length of phone call that have nothing to do with terrorism) to pick which communications to actually open and read, and then they opened and read them.

And of course, everyone's communications--everyone's--were included in the totality of communications that might be tapped.

Including--especially--journalists. We knew that both Christiane Amanpour and Lawrence Wright's communications were tapped. Well, apparently so were every other journalists'.

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Former NSA Analyst: NSA 'Monitored All Communications' Of Americans, Targeted Journalists

From the "GEE, WE SURE DIDN'T SEE THAT ONE COMING" file!
Man, the BU$Hitler Crime Family sure makes Nixon look like a rank amateur, doesn’t it? How does it feel to live in the 4th Reich America? How does if feel to know your Government thinks everyone in the nation is a suspect???? How does it feel to be steped on America????

My question for Keith to ask Mr. Tice to night would be:
Since this shit started BEFORE 9/11, AND IS CLEARLY ILLEGAL, where in the fuck is ANYONE filing charges on these bastards?!

Former NSA Analyst: NSA ‘Monitored All Communications’ Of Americans, Targeted Journalists»

Last night on MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” former analyst for the National Security Agency Russell Tice revealed that the NSA had collected “monitored all communications” of Americans and specifically targeted journalists.

TICE: The National Security Agency had access to all Americans’ communications — faxes, phone calls, and their computer communications. And it didn’t matter whether you were in Kansas, in the middle of the country, and you never made any foreign communications at all. They monitored all communications. […] But an organization that was collected on were U.S. news organizations and reporters and journalists.

OLBERMANN: To what purpose? I mean, is there a file somewhere full of every e-mail sent by all the reporters at the “New York Times?” Is there a recording somewhere of every conversation I had with my little nephew in upstate New York? Is it like that?

TICE: If it was involved in this specific avenue of collection, it would be everything. Yes. It would be everything.

Tice, a major whistleblower who helped reveal President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program to the New York Times in 2005, also told Olbermann that the agency sought specifically “to be deceptive” to prevent congressional committees to learn more about the program, calling it “a shell game”:

TICE: The agency would tailor some of their briefings to try to be deceptive for — whether it be, you know, a congressional committee or someone they really didn’t want to know exactly what was going on. So there would be a lot of bells and whistles in a briefing, and quite often, you know, the meat of the briefing was deceptive.

Watch portions of the interview (full interview here):

In October, two other whistleblowers told ABC News that the NSA “routinely” listened in on Americans’ phone calls and agents would often share “salacious or tantalizing” intercepted calls with each other. All this despite Bush’s frequent protestations that his illegal wiretaping program was “limited,” that it targeted only “a phone call of an al Qaeda, known al Qaeda suspect,” and that he ensured “that our civil liberties of our citizens are treated with respect.”

To the end, Bush and Cheney defended the program. In his final days in office, Cheney declared that “it always aggravated” him that the Times won a Pulitzer for exposing his administration’s illegal spying program.

Update: Keith Olbermann will interview Tice again on his program tonight, airing on MSNBC at 8 pm EST. ThinkProgress.ORG is interested to know whether Tice ever experienced political interference while working for the agency. What questions do you have?

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And I thank you in advance!!!