HuffPo | Russ Tice, a former intelligence analyst who in 2005 blew the whistle
on what he alleged was massive unconstitutional domestic spying across
multiple agencies, claimed Wednesday that the NSA had ordered wiretaps
on phones connected to then-Senate candidate Barack Obama in 2004.
Speaking on "The Boiling Frogs Show,"
Tice claimed the intelligence community had ordered surveillance on a
wide range of groups and individuals, including high-ranking military
officials, lawmakers and diplomats.
"Here's the big one ... this was in summer of 2004, one of the papers
that I held in my hand was to wiretap a bunch of numbers associated
with a 40-something-year-old wannabe senator for Illinois," he said.
"You wouldn't happen to know where that guy lives right now would you?
It's a big white house in Washington, D.C. That's who they went after,
and that's the president of the United States now."
Host Sibel Edmonds and Tice both raised concerns that such alleged
monitoring of subjects, unbeknownst to them, could provide the
intelligence agencies with huge power to blackmail their targets.
"I was worried that the intelligence community now has sway over what is going on," Tice said.
