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former NSA intelligence agent, Russell Tice has now stepped out of the shadows
and exposed the illegal activity conducted by his former employer. Tice stated,
“The freedom of the American people cannot be protected
when our constitutional liberties are ignored and our nation has decayed into a
police state”. It is shameful that the New York
Times was cowered by the Bush administration and delayed publication of the NSA
spying scandal for a year so the fallout would not adversely the outcome of the
presidential election.
Since the story broke, calls for Congressional hearings and the
possible impeachment of the president have intensified. It is the height of
hypocrisy for the Bush administration to express outrage over the “newspaper
leak” while stonewalling the investigation into the exposure of Valerie Plame
by the White House cabal. According to the Times, Attorney General John
Ashcroft's top deputy, James Comey, refused to sign on to the continuation of
the secret program in 2004 amid concerns about its legality and oversight. So,
who was the target of this illegal snooping? Riding on the coattails of the F.B.I’s joint
Terrorism Task Force, military intelligence and local police departments, the
NSA squandered our tax dollars monitoring peaceful groups including Greenpeace,
PETA (the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), the Catholic Worker
antiwar groups, and even cyclists in New York City. I urge readers to
contact their elected officials and demand accountability from the White House
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