NSA Whistleblower To Expose More Unlawful Activity

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NSA Whistleblower To Expose More Unlawful Activity

Postby dugoboy » Fri May 12, 2006 6:38 pm

link: <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/12/more-unlawful-activity/" target="top">NSA Whistleblower To Expose More Unlawful Activity: ‘People…Are Going To Be Shocked’</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>"CongressDaily reports that <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>former NSA staffer Russell Tice will testify to the Senate Armed Services Committee next week that not only do employees at the agency believe the activities they are being asked to perform are unlawful, but that what has been disclosed so far is only the tip of the iceberg.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Tice will tell Congress that former NSA head Gen. Michael Hayden, Bush’s nominee to be the next CIA director, oversaw more illegal activity that has yet to be disclosed"<br><br>"[Tice] said he plans to tell the committee staffers the NSA conducted illegal and unconstitutional surveillance of U.S. citizens while he was there with the knowledge of Hayden. … “I think the people I talk to next week are going to be shocked when I tell them what I have to tell them. It’s pretty hard to believe,” Tice said. “I hope that they’ll clean up the abuses and have some oversight into these programs, which doesn’t exist right now.” …<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>"He said he “will not confirm or deny” if his allegations involve the illegal use of space systems and satellites."</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: NSA Whistleblower To Expose More Unlawful Activity

Postby Hugh Manatee Wins » Sat May 13, 2006 1:23 pm

Watch your back, Tice.<br><br>I wonder if the new GSA satellite surveillance outfit in today's news is using the spy satellite system which the Pentagon went ahead and purchased without Congressional authorization in 1999? Totally unconstitutional and illegal.<br>(Still looking for that story to link here.)<br><br>In the spirit of Jeff's mixing lyrics with parapolitics, Elvis Costello's 'Satellite.'<br><br>Satellite<br><br>She looked like she learned to dance from a series of still pictures<br>She's madly excited now, she throws her hands up like a tulip<br><br>She looks like an illustration of a cocktail party<br>Where cartoon bubbles burst in the air,<br>champagne rolls off her tongue Like a second language<br>And it should have been her biggest night<br>The satellite looks down on her as she begins to cry<br><br>All over the world at the very same time people sharing the same sorrow<br>As the satellite looks down her darkest hour is somebody's bright tomorrow<br><br>He pulled on a cigarette, in the crook of his first finger<br>Felt the static electric charge of her perfect hour-glass figure<br>As he undressed her with his eyes her weakness was his talent<br>How could she know as she stepped through the lights, that her dress would become transparent<br>And with his face pressed to the screen,<br>he muttered words he'd never dare to say if she could see him<br><br>All over the world at the very same time<br>People sharing the same cheap sensation the<br>thrill of watching somebody watching those<br>forbidden things we never mention<br><br>Chorus:<br><br>The satellite looks down right now and forever<br>What it has pulled apart let no man tether his own body to his dream,<br>His dream to someone else<br>Oh no, oh no.<br><br>She went back to a pitiful compromise, He'd go back to his family<br>But for the matter of a thousand miles that separated them entirely<br>In the hot unloving spotlight, with secrets it arouses<br>Now they both know what it's like inside a pornographer's trousers<br>And in a funny way it's anonymous, the satellite<br>it blesses us and makes these dreams come<br>true... All over the world<br><br>Chorus<br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: NSA Whistleblower To Expose More Unlawful Activity

Postby FourthBase » Sat May 13, 2006 4:12 pm

Reminds me of the Stereolab song "Puncture in the Radak Permutation".<br><br>lonely walker humanoid,<br>listening to forgotten sounds<br>tasting smells and colours,<br>hiking mounts crossing rivers<br>humble biped you've come undone,<br>you detached the mechanical <br>freedom it inspires,<br>fusing with your desire <br><br>primal hiker lonely walker,<br>rediscovering your own pace<br>left here to go elsewhere, <br>abandon all impatience<br><br>repossess the senses, <br>impression of freedom <br>time doesn't know itself, <br>has mingle path and dream <br>animal survivor, <br>you belong to nature <br>repossess the senses, <br>impression of freedom <br>time doesn't know itself, <br>has mingle path and dream <br><br>animal survivor, <br>you belong to nature <br>reposess the senses, <br>impression of freedom <br>time doesn't know itself, <br>has mingle path and dream <br>animal survivor, <br>you belong to nature <br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>dreams of return to nature,<br>barred with satellite dishes</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <p></p><i></i>
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