Few limitations on eavesdropping.Russell Tice worked for 20 years inside the National Security Agency, specializing in "special access programs," which are also called "black world" operations. In a January 10 interview with ABC News, Tice claimed that "the technology exists to track and sort through every domestic and international phone call as they are switched through centers, such as one in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , and to search for key words or phrases that a terrorist might use." Tice, a self-described whistle-blower whis·tle·blow·er or whis·tle-blow·er or whistle blower n. One who reveals wrongdoing within an organization to the public or to those in positions of authority: "The Pentagon's most famous whistleblower is . . who admits leaking details of what he considers illegal federal eavesdropping Secretly gaining unauthorized access to confidential communications. Examples include listening to radio transmissions or using laser interferometers to reconstitute conversations by reflecting laser beams off windows that are vibrating in synchrony to the sound in the room. to the New York Times, disputes President Bush's claim that the NSA NSA abbr. National Security Agency Noun 1. NSA - the United States cryptologic organization that coordinates and directs highly specialized activities to protect United States information systems and to produce foreign has conducted a small and limited number of warrantless wiretaps on American citizens. According to ABC News, Tice believes "the number of Americans subject to eavesdropping by the NSA could be in the millions if the full range of secret NSA programs is used." "That would mean for most Americans that if they conducted or ... placed an overseas communication, more than likely they were sucked into that vacuum," he states. The ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. report notes: "The NSA revoked Tice's security clearance in May of last year based on what it called psychological concerns and later dismissed him. Tice calls that bunk and says that's the way the NSA deals with troublemakers and whistleblowers." (For more information on eavesdropping, see page 25.) |
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