January 23, 2009
Over the last couple of days MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann has aired interviews with former National Security Agency employee Russell Tice that have shed a great deal of light on large-scale surveillance and data acquisition conducted during the Bush Administration. For those of you interested in the short version of the story, it boils down to two things:
1) Systemic, pervasive surveillance of ALL (that’s everything, everywhere!) electronic communications was conducted by the NSA and that the metadata gained from it was used to make possible targeted surveillance of particular people and groups.
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January 22, 2009
On Wednesday night, when former NSA analyst Russell Tice told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann that the Bush administration’s National Security Agency spied on everyone in the United States, specifically targeting journalists, the Countdown host was so flabbergasted that Tice was invited back for a second interview.
On Thursday, he returned to the airwaves with expanded allegations against the NSA, claiming the agency collected Americans’ credit card records, and adding that he believes the massive, warrantless data vacuum to be the remnants of the Total Information Awareness program, shut down by Congress in 2003.
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