by WashingtonsBlog
Specifically, Tice told radio host James Corbett that the NSA spied on the following government officialsfor the purposes of gaining leverage over them:
Source of 2005 New York Times Spying Expose Says Spy Agency Targeting Highest-Level American Leaders
As we reported yesterday, NSA whistleblower Russel Tice – a key source in the 2005 New York Timesreport that blew the lid off the Bush administration’s use of warrantless wiretapping – told Peter B. Collins on Boiling Frogs Post (the website of FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds) that the NSA spied on and targeted for blackmail:- “Members of Congress, both Senate and the House, especially on the intelligence committees and on the armed services committees and some of the–and judicial”
- “One of the judges is now sitting on the Supreme Court”
- “Two … former FISA court judges”
- “State Department officials”
- “People in the executive service that were part of the White House–their own people”
- “Antiwar groups”
- “U.S. companies that that do international business”
- “U.S. banking firms and financial firms that do international business”
- “NGOs that–like the Red Cross, people like that that go overseas and do humanitarian work”
- “The president of the United States now [i.e. Barack Obama, when he was running for Senate]“
Specifically, Tice told radio host James Corbett that the NSA spied on the following government officialsfor the purposes of gaining leverage over them:
- General Petraeus and other generals (and see this)
- Supreme Court justice Alito … and all of the other Supreme Court justices
- White House spokesman Scott McClellan