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To: steve harris who wrote (265873)	12/23/2005 2:17:07 PM
From: Doug R	Respond to of 1575625

From your link: federaltimes.com A National Security Agency intelligence analyst who spoke at an April 28 event decrying retaliation against whistleblowers such as himself has lost his security clearance and will be fired, a government watchdog group said May 4. Russ Tice, who spent nearly 20 years analyzing intelligence for the Air Force, Navy, Defense Intelligence Agency and NSA, will be fired May 16, said the nonprofit, nonpartisan group Project on Government Oversight. In 2001, Tice, who was then working at DIA, reported his suspicions that a co-worker might have been a Chinese spy, POGO said. Two years later, after Tice had transferred to NSA, an FBI investigation into the DIA co-worker prompted Tice to raise his concerns again. POGO said that led to a series of retaliatory actions against Tice, such as a psychiatric evaluation that led to his security clearance being revoked. Tice was also assigned to unload furniture from trucks at a warehouse, which led to a back injury, and worked in the NSA motor pool for eight months chauffeuring agency officials and checking fluids, vacuuming and cleaning vehicles. This “unusually abusive retaliation” was an attempt to force Tice to resign, POGO said. And in another retaliatory action, POGO said, NSA withdrew an award Tice received for his intelligence work during the Iraq war after he lost his security clearance. At a press conference in Washington with the National Security Whistleblower Coalition, Tice said agencies must be stopped from withdrawing security clearances from whistleblowers, which effectively fires them. “Until the [intelligence community] can no longer use security clearances as weapons of retaliation without any fear of any form of oversight, there will be no incentive for them to stop this outrageous practice,” Tice said. NSA would not comment. "Clinton's Chinese donations still paying off it would seem...." Now you're going all non sequiter check your programming. 2001 and again 2 years later was during shrub's 1st term.