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NSA SPIED ON OWN EMPLOYEES AND WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENTS
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WAYNE
MADSEN REPORT - NSA spied on its own employees, other U.S.
intelligence personnel, and their journalist and congressional contacts.
WMR has learned that the National Security Agency, on the orders of the
Bush administration, eavesdropped on the private conversations and
e-mail of its own employees, employees of other U.S. intelligence
agencies -- including the CIA and DIA -- and their contacts in the
media, Congress, and oversight agencies and offices.
The journalist
surveillance program, code named "Firstfruits," was part
of a Director of
Central Intelligence program that was maintained at
least until October 2004
and was authorized by then-DCI Porter Goss. . .
Firstfruits was a
database that contained both the articles and the
transcripts of telephone
and other communications of particular
Washington journalists known to
report on sensitive U.S. intelligence
activities, particularly those
involving NSA. According to NSA sources,
the targeted journalists included
author James Bamford, the New York
Times' James Risen, the Washington Post's
Vernon Loeb, the New Yorker's
Seymour Hersh, the Washington Times' Bill
Gertz, UPI's John C. K. Daly,
and this editor [Wayne Madsen], who has
written about NSA for The
Village Voice, CAQ, Intelligence Online, and the
Electronic Privacy
Information Center.
In addition, beginning in 2001
but before the 9-11 attacks, NSA began to
target anyone in the U.S.
intelligence community who was deemed a
"disgruntled employee." According to
NSA sources, this surveillance was
a violation of United States Signals
Intelligence Directive 18 and the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of
1978. The surveillance of U.S.
intelligence personnel by other intelligence
personnel in the United
States and abroad was conducted without any warrants
from the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court. The targeted U.S.
intelligence agency
personnel included those who made contact with members
of the media,
including the journalists targeted by Firstfruits, as well as
members of
Congress, Inspectors General, and other oversight agencies. Those
discovered to have spoken to journalists and oversight personnel were
subjected to sudden clearance revocation and termination as "security
risks."
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