Russ Tice, Bush-Era Whistleblower, Claims NSA Ordered Wiretap Of Barack Obama In 2004

[cali]

this may well be bullshit, but who knows.

Russ Tice, a former intelligence analyst who in 2005 blew the whistle on what he alleged was massive unconstitutional domestic spying across multiple agencies, claimed Wednesday that the NSA had ordered wiretaps on phones connected to then-Senate candidate Barack Obama in 2004.

Speaking on "The Boiling Frogs Show," Tice claimed the intelligence community had ordered surveillance on a wide range of groups and individuals, including high-ranking military officials, lawmakers and diplomats.

"Here's the big one ... this was in summer of 2004, one of the papers that I held in my hand was to wiretap a bunch of numbers associated with a 40-something-year-old wannabe senator for Illinois," he said. "You wouldn't happen to know where that guy lives right now would you? It's a big white house in Washington, D.C. That's who they went after, and that's the president of the United States now."

Host Sibel Edmonds and Tice both raised concerns that such alleged monitoring of subjects, unbeknownst to them, could provide the intelligence agencies with huge power to blackmail their targets.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/20/russ-tice-nsa-obama_n_3473538.html

[JI7]

1. seems hard to believe

[Skidmore]

2. Why?

Either this supports what Snowden has said or it doesn't. Why is it hard to believe?

[JI7]

3. it just comes off to me as looking for attention type of thing

i haven't read or watched the whole thing so maybe there is more to it.

like how after 9/11 there were all these stories about people having seen or heard muslims speaking in arabic before and implying there was some connection.

or after the missing girls in ohio with castro was discovered how some people claimed to have seen something. like the one about seeing naked women on a leash which was most likely false.