Intelligence Whistleblower Canned

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http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0519,webmondo1,63748,6.html

Russ Tice says the NSA just sent him packing

by James Ridgeway
May 4th, 2005 3:59 PM

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Russ Tice, an intelligence analyst for the heavily secret National Security Agency, has announced that he was fired from his job earlier this week after he stood up to protest the way the agency harassed him. Tice was one of several intelligence agents who had joined former FBI translator Sibel Edmond’s new group, the National Security Whistleblowers. He appeared at an April 28 press conference on Capitol Hill to describe how the NSA treats employees it doesn’t like, specifically ones who dare to be critical.
Tice’s security clearance was taken away and he was ordered out as of May 16. In the intelligence community, having your security clearance lifted is like being sent to Siberia.

"Until the can no longer use security clearances as weapons of retaliation without any fear of any form of oversight, there will be no incentive for them to stop this outrageous practice," he said at last week’s press conference.

His problems started when he asked the agency to look into the activities of an employee he thought might be engaged in espionage. Instead, the NSA called him in for an emergency psychological evaluation, one of the usual procedures in blackballing an employee. He was duly determined to be crazy and put on administrative leave. Tice was later assigned to unload furniture from trucks at a warehouse, where he hurt his back. He also served an eight-month tour of duty in the NSA motor pool, where the analyst worked at maintaining the agency’s fleet of vehicles, gassing them up, cleaning them and checking the fluids, and driving NSA big shots around town.

[Selteri]

1. What a surprise

Say something we don't like and away you go... so much for the idea of a government that has anything remotely connected to the people...

ten to one they find an excuse to arrest him within a year.

[Roland99]

3. "It's a Good Life"

[Me.]

2. I Dearly Hope He & Sibel

along with their group, kick their As*es.

[FreedomAngel82]

6. Me too

They deserve it. :mad: Fire people who follow the law and order but promote liars and manipulators.

[EVDebs]

4. Is there an Office of Inspector General at the NSA ? I remember

when female CIA personnel sued the agency. Maybe he can be reinstated.

[orpupilofnature57]

5. Step-ford wives, Shrubs America working Hard. To wards what?

[applegrove]

7. Bushite Purges continue. Shame on Bush. Shame, shame, shame.

:banghead:

[UpInArms]

8. it's shit like this that

really pisses me off

:argh:

The promotion of incompetence and ideology over truthfulness and integrity.

The degradation and devalulation of those characteristics is a hallmark of this mal-administration and its minions.

:argh:

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11. John Bolton

is living proof of that.

[Rex]

9. Looks like his suspicions were correct.

IMO - if they really thought him a loon, then the NSA would have kept him and monitored his activities to see what tripped him out. I know that if I was a director in the NSA, I would want to know if someone "drove him crazy" inside the NSA.

[chomskysright]

10. I've contacted Sybil Edmunds re: whereabouts of Tice re:...

the 'psychological evaluation' that above was stated to have painted him as 'crazy.' The American Psychological Association is currently engaged in evaluation of psychologist's behavior who are in or associated with the military.

hope she answers me. If someone figures out Tice's e mail, tell me back channel, would you? thanks.