NSA spied on its own employees

December 29th, 2005 at 21:30 Björn Hallberg

Really amazing. Besides Stasi and the KGB I recall the third reich. One of the hallmarks of totalitarian regimes, I am told, is the constant and seemingly inept use of the government and especially the militarized police by a layered onion principle. No responsibility. No clarity. No instances for appeal. Just layer upon layer, without ever properly doing away with the old. Everyone watches everyone, from the NSA and the CIA in this case, down to everyday people. Spouses warily taking notes of what their partners are saying in their sleep. The signs are all there. Don’t they see them or do they in fact know exactly what they are doing?

Wayne Madsen Report via Another Day in the Empire - Neocon Stasi: Spy vs. Spy - Increasingly, it is appropriate to characterize the Bushcon spy operation as an all-American version of Stasi (Staats Sicherheitsdienst), the feared East German secret police. As it turns out, the neocon Stasi engaged in spook activity not only against American citizens, but government bureaucrats and fellow spooks as well. “NSA spied on its own employees, other U.S. intelligence personnel, and their journalist and congressional contacts,” reports Wayne Madsen. “WMR has learned that the National Security Agency (NSA), 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,” behavior fitting of the Committee for State Security, or the Soviet era KGB, responsible for the liquidation of anti-Soviet and counter-revolutionary organizations.

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