Russ Tice - whistleblower

Russ Tice is a former NSA employee and was the first to blow the whistle on his employee. Last year he revealed that the NSA had spied on prominent Americans, including candidate Barack Obama.

The question of blackmail was raised at that time by Mr. Tice

Here he is interviewed by the Real News

Why I Decided to Blow the Whistle on the NSA

See also this interview from last year

Second Russell Tice interview

NSA Whistleblower Russell Tice Offers More Details: Sen. Feinstein and Others Were Wiretapped by NSA

In our interview in June, NSA Whistleblower Russell Tice told Sibel Edmonds and PBC flatly that Senate Intelligence Chair Dianne Feinstein was one of many targets of NSA surveillance, using wiretapping and other methods. Big Question: does Feinstein know this, or has NSA kept it secret even from its highest-ranking oversight official?We kept this interview brief, and to the point: Is Sen. Feinstein unaware that NSA targets top elected leaders, including herself? If she is aware, does she support domestic surveillance programs because she is compromised by blackmail or other leverage? And even if she is not compromised, does she see the potential for abuse by a rogue NSA?

We open with a quick summary of Tice’s background, and then he details the wiretapping of Feinstein’s offices, homes, and family. Tice also says NSA used other surveillance methods on Feinstein, and places the initiation of wiretaps in 2004 or 2005. He responds to questions about evidence for his disclosures, and his motive for revealing them now.

And he recaps the story of his appearance with Feinstein and Sen. Orrin Hatch on CNN’s Larry King show, where the senators defended the programs that Tice knew were also monitoring them.

To listen to podcast GO HERE

Please share this widely: if Feinstein will answer these questions honestly, we might see a break in the hold NSA appears to have over top elected officials.

NSA Blackmailing Obama?

Interview with Whistleblower Russ Tice

Abby Martin talks to Russell Tice, former intelligence analyst and original NSA whistleblower, about how the recent NSA scandal is only scratches the surface of a massive surveillance apparatus, citing specific targets the he saw spying orders for including former senators Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Sibel Edmonds on spying

Sibel Edmonds Blows the Whistle on Government Blackmailing

In this remarkable conversation, Sibel Edmonds reflects on Russ Tice's recent revelations to Boiling Frogs Post and The Corbett Report that the NSA has wiretapped top government officials for years. Edmonds discusses from her own experience how the FBI collects dirt on Congressman and public officials for use as political leverage. We also talk about how this scandal proves that there is no "official channel" for whistleblowers to follow when they want to expose wrondoing because the system is being controlled from behind the scenes by the criminals in the national security establishment.

Listen to the Russ Tice interview: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=7540

This interview can be viewed HERE

By way of introduction – from James Corbett

Whistleblower: NSA wiretapped Obama, Petraeus, Alito, others

Last week, NSA whistleblower Russell Tice conducted interviews on BoilingFrogsPost and The Corbett Report where he revealed shocking new details of the NSA spying scandal. In addition to detailing how the NSA is collecting and storing the content of all electronic communications passing through the United States, he also revealed for the first time some of the specific targets of past NSA wiretapping operations, including senior Congressional leaders, the former White House Press Secretary, high-ranking military generals, the entire Supreme Court, and even then-Senator from Illinois and future President, Barack Obama.

Russell Tice was a 20 year intelligence analyst veteran, working for the NSA until 2005 when he helped blow the whistle on the agency’s unconstitutional spying on Americans. He was one of the sources that James Risen and Eric Lichtblau turned to for their reporting on the warrantless wiretapping program in the New York Times. In 2009, he revealed to Keith Olbermann that the agency was eavesdropping on the communications of journalists a full four years before the AP spying scandal.

So far the mainstream press in the United States have been studiously ignoring these revelations. Tice was invited for a brief appearance on MSNBC, but was told just minutes before going on air that he was not permitted to mention the wiretaps of government officials. Glenn Greenwald and others who have been working tirelessly on the Edward Snowden story have yet to even acknowledge Tice’s comments. A handful of publications such as The Huffington Post and BusinessInsider have run single stories on the revelations, but so far there has been no response from the NSA, the White House, or any of the other people named by Tice to the allegations.

Stay tuned for continuing coverage of the case this week on BoilingFrogsPost.com.

Fox News has carried this

The Corbett report

Solutions: Sousveillance

By now we are all familiar with the concept of 'surveillance.' In the Orwellian tyranny of the new normal, we are all gradually being made aware that we are living in a panoptic society where everything we do and say is being watched and recorded. So what is the answer to this constant surveillance? Why not use the surveillance technology to keep tabs on what the government is doing? Welcome to the world of sousveillance. Join us today on The Corbett Report as we explore this concept and the grassroots revolution in citizen media that it has made possible.

Media censorship

“We Don’t Want a Word on Your Allegations Pertaining to NSA Wiretapping of Obama, Judges & Activists”-MSNBC

12160 info,

21 June, 2013

On Wednesday, June 19, Boiling Frogs Post broke the news (Listen to the mp3 preview Here ) on the NSA’s targeting of political candidates, elected officials, federal judges, law firms and  activists, including candidate Barack Obama, revealed by veteran NSA officer and whistleblower Russ Tice.

In this bombshell episode of the Boiling Frogs Post Podcast Show NSA whistleblower Tice  went on record for the first time with new revelations and names of official culprits involved in the NSA’s illegal practices, and explained in detail how the National Security Agency targets, sucks-in, stores and analyzes illegally obtained content from the masses in the United States. He revealed for the first time the NSA Deep State involved in the targeting and wiretapping of US elected officials, political candidates, federal judges and activists for its own purposes.  

Prior to his exclusive interview with Boiling Frogs Post, Mr. Tice tried to expose these government illegalities through US mainstream and larger pseudo alternative media outlets. Both mainstream and quasi alternative media outlets refused to publish or air Mr. Tice’s revelations; while some cited legal concerns others refrained from providing any justification whatsoever.

Today MSNBC aired an interview with Mr. Tice disclosing “some” of his revelations, thanks to the vigilant activists who tirelessly shared and disseminated Mr. Tice’s revelations and interview audio. Interestingly, at the last minute, MSNBC told Mr. Tice that they would NOT include his revelations on NSA’s targeting of Obama, elected officials, attorneys, judges and activists. Basically, they censored his entire testimony on these stunning allegations!

In a correspondence with Boiling Frogs Post immediately following his censored interview with MSNBC Mr. Tice stated:

“When they were placing the ear-phone in my ear with less than ten minutes left till my air time, the producer in New York said that their lawyers were discussing the material, and at this time, they did not want me to mention anything about the NSA wiretaps against all the people and organizations that I mentioned. That is how it went down. I did say on the air that I know it is much worse and would like to talk about that some time.”

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The pathetic sorry state of the United States Media! But, that’s the negative part.There are some positives:

This is another instant of proving the idea of People-Power. This is another case where a truly independent alternative outlet dares to expose government illegality and cover-up. This is one more example illustrating the power that rests with the people-no matter the size and its irate minority status.

We can do it. We must do it. We have to continue and expand. We need to escalate our pressure and raise our stand as the opposition to our expanding police state oppression. It starts with us-and it ends with us. Kudos to us-the people-power.

Here is the MSNBC segment with NSA Whistleblower Russ Tice:

Revelations by whistleblower, Russ Tice

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NSA Whistleblower Russ Tice Alleges NSA Wiretapped Barack Obama as Senate Candidate

"In this bombshell episode of the Boiling Frogs Post Podcast Show NSA whistleblower Russ Tice joins us to go on record for the first time with new revelations and the names of official culprits involved in the NSA's illegal practices.

Mr. Tice explains in detail how the National Security Agency targets, sucks-in, stores and analyzes illegally obtained content from the masses in the United States.

He contradicts officials and the mainstream media on the status of the NSA's Utah facility, which is already operating and "On-Line."

He reveals the NSA as a Deep State that targets and wiretaps US political candidates for its own purposes.

We discuss the latest controversies involving the NSA, PRISM, Edward Snowden, and the spins and lies that are being floated by the US mainstream and pseudo-alternative media.

- See more at:http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/...

To listen to the video GO HERE