As we reported yesterday, NSA whistleblower Russell Tice – a key source in the 2005 New York Times report that blew the lid off the Bush administration’s use of warrantless wiretapping – toldPeter B. Collins on Boiling Frogs Post (the website of FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds) that the NSA spied on and targeted for blackmail:
- “Members of Congress, both Senate and the House, especially on the intelligence committees and on the armed services committees and some of the–and judicial”
- “One of the judges is now sitting on the Supreme Court”
- “Two … former FISA court judges”
- “State Department officials”
- “People in the executive service that were part of the White House–their own people”
- “Antiwar groups”
- “U.S. companies that that do international business”
- “U.S. banking firms and financial firms that do international business”
- “NGOs that–like the Red Cross, people like that that go overseas and do humanitarian work”
- “The president of the United States now [i.e. Barack Obama, when he was running for Senate]”
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