NSA Whistleblower: Snowden Never Had Access to the JUICIEST Documents

[David Guyatt]

These programs typically have, at the least, a requirement of 100 year or until death, 'till the person first being "read in" [i.e. sworn to secrecy as part of access to the higher classification program] can talk about them. [As an interesting sidenote, the Washington Times reported in 2006 that when Tice offered to testify to Congress about this illegal spying he was informed by the NSA that the Senate and House intelligence committees were not cleared to hear such information.]

This shouldn't come as a surprise, I realize, but the foregoing clearly means that the entire legal framework of so called democratic oversight of the intelligence communoty and the Executive is nothing other than empty words.


What we have here is a graduated dictatorship.

RUSSELL TICE: In 2009, I told [reporters] that they were going after journalists and news organizations and reporters and such.
I never read text of Congressman's conversations. What I had was information sometimes hand-written of phone numbers of Congressmen, their wives, their children, their staffers, their home numbers, their cellphone numbers, their phone numbers of their residence back in Oregon or whatever state they're from, and their little offices back in their state.


Or an Admiral and his wife, and his kids and his staffers …


The main thing I saw more than anything else were lawyers and law firms. I saw more lawyers or law firms being wiretapped than anything else.
These are the phone numbers I saw written. And then I would see those numbers incorporated into those lists with the columns of information about the phone number, and the serial number and the banks of recorders and digital converters and the data storage devices. I could see handwritten phone numbers and notes, sometimes with names, sometimes not.

And this simply reveals that the graduated dictatorship I mentioned above is controlled through blackmail.