Source of Wire Tap Leak Was Fired from NSA - Russ Tice Suffers from Psychotic Paranoia

The highly classified NSA foreign collection program that targeted Al Qaeda is considered by the Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee - Jane Harman (who was briefed on it since 2003) to be "essential to US national security" and that "its disclosure has damaged critical intelligence capabilities".

Scumbag journalist James Risen calls people like Russ Tice, who leaked information about the program, a "patriot" with "pure motives". Tice was fired from the NSA. A Defense Department psychologist concluded that he suffered from psychotic paranoia. Tice sent letters to both houses of Congress December 16, 2005, the same day the New York Times ran its explosive “eavesdropping” story, stating "I intend to report to Congress probable unlawful and unconstitutional acts conducted while I was an intelligence officer with the National Security Agency and with the Defense Intelligence Agency."


Gee....I wonder which party Russ is registered to, who he voted for in previous elections, and who he gives campaign donations to. Now he "wants to testify". I'm sure he'll get his chance. But if we are going to take what this mentally ill individual says seriously, we should also expect to hold him to account for any false statements he makes. Ya know.....like Lyin' Joe Wilson was when Louis "Whistleblower" Libby correctly pointed out that his wife was responsible for his tea-sipping trip to Niger rather than the Vice President as Lyin' Joe Wilson had claimed. Oh that's right, Democrats consider Lyin' Joe to be the "whistleblower" despite the fact that he lied about his own findings among many other things. We can't have the elected President of the United States having final say on matters of national security, right Mr. Risen?

I--I think that during a period from about 2000--from 9/11 through the beginning of the Gulf--the war in Iraq, I think what happened was you--we--the checks and balances that normally keep American foreign policy and national security policy towards the center kind of broke down. And you had more of a radicalization of American foreign policy in which the--the--the career professionals were not really given a chance to kind of forge a consensus within the administration. And so you had the--the--the principles--Rumsfeld, Cheney and Tenet and Rice and many others--who were meeting constantly, setting policy and really never allowed the people who understand--the experts who understand the region to have much of a say.

Why didn't evil Bush listen to that "pure" "patriotic" "expert" "psychotic paranoid" Russ Tice?! HE should be calling the shots! James Risen and his Democrat media comrades continue to shamelessly parade their naked double standards. Keep ignoring the Jane Harmans of your party, Democrats. It's only our nations security you're putting at risk. You've got to get "your power" back. There is nothing more important than that!