NSA Whistleblower

Powerline has an interesting entry of Russ Tice, the NSA whistleblower who has suddenly hit the airwaves. It's a disturbing set of articles and transcripts though. Most of the issue that bothers me comes down to the government can't make any statements on this person. So, we get only one side of the story and we may be being deceived by a complete nut job.

Twenty year intelligence service veterans strike me as people you just don't let go. But then again, why do you have them do car pool and warehouse work? I'm going to guess that the psych eval is normal practice for people that act oddly in that line of work. Here is an article presenting his view of what happened to him.

In April 2003, Tice sent an e-mail to the DIA agent handling his suspicions about a co-worker being a Chinese spy. He was prompted to do so by a news report about two FBI agents who were arrested for giving classified information to a Chinese double agent.

"At the time, I sent an e-mail to Mr. James (the person at DIA handling his complaint) questioning the competence of counterintelligence at FBI," Tice wrote in a document submitted to the Inspector General. In the e-mail, he mentioned that he suspected that he was the subject of electronic monitoring.

Shortly after sending the e-mail, an NSA security officer ordered him to report for "a psychological evaluation" even though he had just gone through one nine months earlier. Tice believes James called NSA to ask them "to go after him" on their behalf.

From the context of the article, this doesn't make this guy any more convincing.

The Defense Department psychologist concluded that Tice suffered from psychotic paranoia, according to Tice. "He did this even though he admitted that I did not show any of the normal indications of someone suffering from paranoia," Tice wrote in a statement to the inspector general.

"I knew my from that day that my career was over," said Tice, who has worked in intelligence since he graduated from the University of Maryland in 1985. His job at NSA was so top secret that he could not even reveal his title.

Once again, only his word.

Does this guy deserve sympathy? Apparently the MSM thinks so, since they have been parading him on Couric and Democracy Now.

I hate half stories. They always make me suspicious.