Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

January 30, 2009

Russell Tice formerly worked for the National Security Agency?s "special access programs," also known as "black world" operations. Disillusioned with the NSA?s illegal surveillance of Americans, Tice quit the agency and went public with his objections.

Two years ago, Tice warned that "the technology exists to track and sort through every domestic and international phone call? made by Americans. The Bush administration insisted this was necessary to monitor terrorist suspects.

However, as Tice pointed out in a January 21 interview, ?The [NSA] had access to all Americans? communications, faxes, phone calls, and their computer communications.? And rather than focusing on suspected terrorists, the NSA was compiling dossiers on American news organizations and journalists.

Although electronic eavesdropping began decades ago, it was expanded under the Bush administration, with the help of then-Senator Barrack Obama. Now Obama, as president, has filed a motion with a federal judge in support of continuing that totalitarian program.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.