Blackmailed Congress Stalls Legislation Outlawing NSA SurveillanceAmerica is now a totalitarian state
Kurt NimmoInfowars.com
February 17, 2014
Congress refuses to act on NSA reform legislation despite an overwhelming number of Americans expressing opposition to the agency’s pervasive surveillance. Since October bills in both the House and Senate have remained stuck in respective Judiciary Committees. Aides say there is no indication they will move forward anytime soon....
Congress BlackmailedIn June NSA whistleblower Russ Tice, who was instrumental in blowing the cover of the Bush administration’s use of warrantless wiretapping, told Peter B. Collins the NSA is blackmailing top congressional leaders.
“They went after – and I know this because I had my hands literally on the paperwork for these sort of things – they went after high-ranking military officers,” Tice said, “they went after 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. But they went after other ones, too. They went after lawyers and law firms. All kinds of – heaps of lawyers and law firms. They went after judges. One of the judges is now sitting on the Supreme Court that I had his wiretap information in my hand. Two are former FISA court judges. They went after State Department officials. They went after people in the executive service that were part of the White House – their own people.”...
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