“National Security Whistleblowers Coalition puts out this press release for immediate release. When reading the wording‚Ķconsider the source.
On Wednesday, July 26, Russell Tice, former National Security Agency (NSA) intelligence analyst and a member of National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC), was approached outside his home by two FBI agents who served him with a subpoena to testify in front of a federal grand jury. NSWBC has obtained a copy of the subpoena issued for Mr. Tice’s testimony and is releasing it to the public for the first time. The subpoena directs Mr. Tice to appear before the jury on August 2, 2006 at 1:00 p.m. in the Eastern District of Virginia. Mr. Tice “will be asked to testify and answer questions concerning possible violations of federal criminal law.”
In response to the subpoena, Mr. Tice issued the following statement: “This latest action by the government is designed only for one purpose: to ensure that people who witness criminal action being committed by the government are intimidated into remaining silent.” He continued: “To this date I have pursued all the appropriate channels to report unlawful and unconstitutional acts conducted [by the government] while I served as an intelligence officer with the NSA and DIA. It was with my oath as a US intelligence officer to protect and preserve the U.S. Constitution weighing heavy on my mind that I reported acts that I know to be unlawful and unconstitutional. The freedom of the American people cannot be protected when our constitutional liberties are ignored and our nation has decayed into a police state.”
On December 22, 2005, the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition made public a request by Tice to report to Congress probable unlawful and unconstitutional acts by the government while he was an intelligence officer with NSA and DIA. In a press release, NSWBC urged the congress to hold hearings and let Mr. Tice testify. Mr. Tice, a responsible veteran intelligence officer, tried to use the so-called appropriate channels, including the United States Congress, to responsibly and lawfully disclose government wrongdoing.”
Yeah Tice whatever. The fact is that the Federal Grand Jury is going to be hearing a lot of testimony as the DOJ has completed it’s investigation into the NSA and CIA prison scandal leaks (and others are continuing). There are going to be more subpoanas to come.
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clarice
July 28th, 2006 at 11:16 am
1http://americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=5681
Carol Johnson
July 28th, 2006 at 12:21 pm
2I’m keeping my two beady eyes right here!! Thanks for the heads-up Mac. Keep it coming.
Carol
Carol Johnson
July 28th, 2006 at 12:31 pm
3Oh…and by the way, the Jefferson case has been delayed again by a 3-judge panel, including Janice Rogers Brown. Did anybody hear anything more about that? It wasn’t stated how long that it would be held up. Supposedly, it was to allow the court to review grounds for an appeal by Jefferson. What are the chances Jefferson would get one? Any ideas? Clarice?
Carol
ordi
July 28th, 2006 at 12:51 pm
4Carol,
I read about it on blog but can’t recall which. Here is FNC’s report on it. Note how the court made clear the stay should not be construed as a ruling on the merits. Of course that maybe SOP with courts.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday temporarily delayed a Justice Department bribery investigation of a Louisiana congressman while he challenges the legality of an unprecedented FBI raid on his Capitol Hill office.
The decision by two members of a three-judge panel means the Justice Department cannot begin a review set to begin Wednesday of more than a dozen computer hard drives, several floppy discs and two boxes of documents seized during a May 20-21 raid on Democratic Rep. William Jefferson’s Rayburn Building office.
‘The purpose of this administrative injunction is to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the merits of the motion for a stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,’wrote Judges Janice Rogers Brown and Thomas B. Griffith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The identity of the third judge is not known.
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Jul26/0,4670,RaidonCongress,00.html
Macranger
July 28th, 2006 at 1:27 pm
5Clarice,
Danke as always.
Carol Johnson
July 28th, 2006 at 1:47 pm
6OrOrdi,
Here it is…I got in off of NewsMax:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/7/26/104902.shtml
Knoew I saw it somewhere. Otherwise, I’m losin’ it! LOL
Carol
Carol Johnson
July 28th, 2006 at 2:03 pm
7Up on DRUDGE right now, but with no details:
A federal appeals court blocks the Justice Department from reviewing evidence seized from Lousiana congressman William Jeffersons’s office…
Oh hell!
Carol
clarice
July 28th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
8I Mac, for some reason this new new format is blocking the
left half of the comment sec section–Can’t read it or typ type on it.
Carol Johnson
July 28th, 2006 at 2:20 pm
9A federal appeals court on Friday barred the Justice Department from reviewing evidence seized from a Louisiana congressman’s office during an unprecedented FBI raid on his Capitol Hill office in May.
A three-judge panel ordered a federal trial judge to ensure that Democratic Rep. William Jefferson be given copies of seized evidence contained on more than a dozen computer hard drives, several floppy disks and two boxes of paper documents.
The panel said Jefferson then must be given the opportunity to invoke legislative privilege claims in private with the trial judge.
Comments? Is this going anywhere?
Carol
ordi
July 29th, 2006 at 1:38 am
10Carol,
I wondered that too, until I read FNC’s article and found this:
This would allow the Louisiana Democrat to say which documents are legislative in nature in the hopes of preventing them from being considered by the courts in any further action regarding the bribery case.
The district court also must perform its own review of the documents to determine their admissibility.
It was not initially clear when the district court would complete its review. And for the time being, the appeals court is preventing all access to investigators to the material collected in the search.
IMO, it looks like a good compromise to protect Jefferson’s constituional right in regard to legislative privilege. But I have been wrong before.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,206157,00.html
ordi
July 29th, 2006 at 1:52 am
11Carol,
The FBI also provided a ‘new twist’ to the investigation on friday. They are not letting fridays court order stop or slow down their investigation. In my search, I also found this:
The corruption trial of US congress man, Rep William Jefferson has taken a new twist as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Friday asked Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to help in investigations by interviewing three Nigerian governors.
A Media Adviser to Vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, Mr Adinoyi Onukaba Ojo told a correspondent of the Washington Post that the vice-president and others had been urging EFCC to release any FBI report on the case, adding that such a report would show that Atiku did nothing wrong. Onukaba also said other Nigerian officials who had contacts with Jefferson will be investigated in the process.
Atiku has continued to maintain he is innocent, according to the report. A recent statement through his Washington lawyer reads thus: ‘I have no relationship with Mr Jefferson, personal or private, other than the usual diplomatic courtesies extended to a high-ranking US official who states that he is interested in promoting trade, investment and the transfer of technology to Nigeria.’
The report said Jefferson is undergoing trial in the United States of America (USA) for allegedly receiving bribe to use his congressional position and contact with Abubakar to facilitate a lucrative Nigerian telecommunications contract for a firm in Kentucky. Jefferson was quoted on tape as saying that Atiku was ‘corrupt’ and needed bribe in return for his help.
The report stated that the vice-president’s allies and public relations advisers insist Jefferson made up the alleged demand of bribe by Atiku, saying the large amounts of cash found in the congress man’s freezer attests to that.
It would be recalled that an FBI raid on the lawmakers house turned up $90,000 cash in his freezer. He was also caught on video tape accepting a large payoff.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200607240499.html
This article brings home the point that Jefferson is truly in deep kimchee.
ordi
July 29th, 2006 at 2:00 am
12Things that make you go hmmmmm
The article above says the WaPo asked questions about this Nigeria development but I could find no mention of Nigeria in their article for the Sat. paper. Now, grant it there could be another article but……
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/28/AR2006072801582.html
Merry Whitney
July 29th, 2006 at 2:09 am
13Tice Tice did not go to the “proper congressional route,” he went to Mikulski, a Maryland Democrat (but not on the committee), and then to NYT with his complaints — not likely with any of the info leaks, but no way to know for sure..
He He probably isn’t a real “leak” though, just a nut job job — he had a “thang” for a female co-worker and pretty much stalked her, while accusing her — an American of Chinese nationality — of being a spy, but with no evidence. His assertions were found baseless, he flunked a psychiatric exam, and his work detail was switched to garage duty, cleaning the NSA vehicles. On the psychiatric exam, he claims the doctor ‘admitted’ he (Tice) wasn’t really schizophrenic, even though that was the diagnosis.
There’s a glitch either in m my browser, or in the site — I’m getting the left margin ad space overlapping the contents space.
Carol Johnson
July 29th, 2006 at 2:46 am
14Thanks Ordi!
Guess I’ll just have to wait this one out. According to what I read, the court says Jefferson has two days to review the material. I just hope someone remembers to check his pants and socks before he leaves.
“Mr. Jefferson…Sandy Burger on line 2.”
Carol
ordi
July 29th, 2006 at 3:37 am
15You crack me up!
Check his pants and socks! LOL LOL
Business and Common Law
September 17th, 2007 at 2:02 am
16Business and Common Law…
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…
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