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Was Obama One of the NSA's Spying Targets in 2004?

Aubrey Bloomfield, Policymic

Did the National Security Agency (NSA) spy on Barack Obama back in 2004? Former intelligence analyst Russ Tice, who left the NSA in 2005, claimed in a podcast on "The Boiling Frogs Show" on Wednesday that under the Bush administration the agency was ordered to spy on high-ranking military leaders, members of Congress, judges, and a certain then-Senate candidate from Illinois. Tice was one of the sources of this New York Times report in 2005 that revealed the warrantless wiretapping program being run by the NSA under Bush. While Bush was forced to admit that a small number of Americans were targeted by the program, Tice has always maintained that the net was cast far wider.

Following Edward Snowden's recent revelations about the NSA's surveillance programs, Obama defended the practice but also said that he sympathized with people's concerns about the extent of the surveillance because he would probably be "pretty high" on a list of possible NSA targets. While it is one thing for Obama to say that as the president under whom the programs are operating, given that he was strongly critical of Bush's surveillance policies while campaigning for president he would probably would have taken a much dimmer view of being an NSA target back in 2004.

Tice, who worked as an intelligence analyst in various government agencies for 20 years, argues that the NSA has "turned themselves into a rogue agency that has J Edgar Hoover capabilities at a monstrous scale on steroids." He claims that while he was working for the NSA it was carrying out surveillance on a laundry list of American targets including high ranking military leaders, members of Congress (especially on the Intelligence, Armed Services, and Judicial committees), lawyers and law firms, judges (including a sitting U.S. Supreme Court judge and two former FISA court judges), people who worked for the White House, U.S. companies doing business overseas, anti-war activists, and NGOs such as the Red Cross. Tice said in the interview, "I know this because I had my hands literally on the paperwork for these sort of things." 

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http://www.policymic.com/mobile/articles/50421/nsa-surveillance-scandal-former-whistleblower-russ-tice-alleges-that-nsa-spied-on-obama-in-2004

All of a sudden, certain sudden reversals in policy from stayed position seem sensible. While it's no proof, as the President is the only one who knows why, NSA data collection of politicians' private communication does infer the application of undue pressure, a form of friendly persuasion or blackmail of obvious benefit to those "in" on the secret.

blm, the largest wealth ever amassed in human history has occurred over the past 42 years. Corporate profits are at an all time highs. Going from memory, a mere 400 individuals have a greater combined net worth than 230 million Americans. Yet, after five years, the President won't propose a budget thay requires the wealthy to pay their fair share, let alone propose policies to rebuild the nation, let alone reshape the economy or protect the environment. Ask yourself, "Why?"