Sen. Rockefeller: NSA May Have Spied On Me

[tekisui]

Source: The Raw Story

Russell Tice has been heard. Loud and Clear.

Following Wednesday's revelation by the former National Security Agency analyst that President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program had spied on everyone, quite contrary to what the administration had claimed, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) told MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Thursday that he was "quite prepared to believe" the allegations.

He added: "I think they went after anyone they could get -- including me."

Tice, during an appearance on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann the prior evening, proclaimed, "The National Security Agency had access to all Americans' communications -- faxes, phone calls, and their computer communications. It didn't matter whether you were in Kansas, in the middle of the country, and you never made foreign communications at all. They monitored all communications."

"In one of the operations that I was in, we looked at organizations, just supposedly so that we would not target them," Tice told Olbermann. "What I was finding out, though, is that the collection on those organizations was 24/7 and 365 days a year -- and it made no sense. ... I started to investigate that. That's about the time when they came after me to fire me."

more: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Rockefeller_NSA_may_have_spied_on_0122.html

[NNN0LHI]

1. May have? You just know they did

At least I do.

Don

[Lint Head]

2. Bin Laden has to be loving this. Bush has caused Americans to

spy on each other and suspect each other of terrorism. Bin Laden would love to see us eat each other alive.
Bush needs to be prosecuted for the almost mortal damage he has done to this country.
Bin Laden and his gang is also witnessing the fact that a criminal like Bush can do this to his people then retire to a mansion
and easy life of luxury.

:dem:

[ThomWV]

3. God dam, it almost goes without saying. He can't be that fuggin' stupid.

[Hubert Flottz]

7. He should know he helped them by doing nothing when he

knew what they were up to.

Jay was a GOPer once upon a time...the rest of his family are too and have been for generations. I never did trust the man.

[tularetom]

4. They spied on him and his committee still gave them everything they asked for

Spineless asswipe.

[KharmaTrain]

5. Jay The Clueless...

I gave this guy the benefit of the doubt when he came out a couple years ago when Rissen's piece first was published and angsted how he was sworn to secrecy about what he was being told...that if he disclosed the scope of things, he could be arrested. And I surely wouldn't have put it past this regime. He lost me and all credibility when he not only supported the obscene FISA bill last year, but pushed to get it passed.

So now what, Jay? Write a sternly worded letter and hide it in your desk? Dare to do some investigating? Bring those responsible into the public light and have them explain what they did and why they did it? Release the lists of who was being spied on? Sorry...you can't play victim when you're the head of one of the most powerful committees in the Senate. Do your fuckin' job!!!!

[deminks]

6. We need a special prosecutor for domestic spying without warrants.

This is a crime, 5 years in prison according to Bamford on the Maddow show last night.

IMHO, they did more than spy on members of congress. IMHO they used the information they got against them, blackmail. It explains a lot. We need to find out.

Ordinary Americans have not only had their phone and internet privacy breached, but also their credit card security breached. Without warrant. This is a crime. Goddamnit. This is a crime.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

8. Journalists, Congress, why believe that they drew the line at anyone?

They didn't. What use did they put the info to? Who accessed it and for what purpose? Blackmail? Rigging elections? Making financial gains in the stock market with insider information? Personal vendettas?

People who were threatened or compromised or believe that they were spied upon need to come forward.

[kentuck]

9. Are we to believe that it is all ended now??

That they are no longer spying on us? Does anyone truly believe that?

[xchrom]

10. indeed -- once they have the means -- they're not going to give it up easily. nt

[HillWilliam]

11. When the Berlin Wall came down and the Germanys were reunited

the West was amazed to find a spaghetti-mass of wiring between houses and businesses; an incredible, unbelievable mass of wire set up for neighbor to spy upon neighbor. Absolutely no-one in the entire of East Germany was safe from 24/7 scrutiny and being reported to the state. One never knew who was listening in because somebody always was. Such a degree of spying was thought to be impossible and unsustainable, yet there it was.

The West daintily shuddered.

Americans said, "Oh, but that could never happen here. This is America and we have rights."

Oh, yeah? Not any more we don't, and guess what, Kemo Sabe: it is happening.

Right here.

To you.

Feel safer now?

[pilsner]

12. Political eavesdropping is Standard Operating Procedure for Repubs

Published on Monday, July 10, 2006 by CommonDreams.org

Reclaiming The Issues: "Why Is Bush Spying On Democrats?!?"

by Thom Hartmann

"Republicans in the Senate - including a staffer for Republican Senator Orrin Hatch - hacked into the computers of several Senate Democrats, including Ted Kennedy and Dick Durbin. Reading Kennedy's and Durbin's correspondence, the Republican operatives discovered the strategy the Democrats intended to use to attack Republican high court nominees. They leaked fifteen bits of Kennedy's discussions to The Wall Street Journal and other Republican-friendly sources, who used the information to successfully trash and thwart the Democratic plans.

As the story began to unfold several months later, the headline from The New York Times on February 10, 2004, read: "Democrats Suggest Inquiry Points to Wider Spying by G.O.P."

When will the Dems stand up for themselves!!?

It's time to shake off the Stockholm Syndrome!!!