Crackpottery

Last Thursday, I mentioned Russ Tice, a former National Security Agency official and whistleblower, who was dismissed from the NSA last year and has sent letters to the House and Senate intelligence committees asking to testify about the NSA spy program. I said then:

Undoubtedly, the administration will cast Tice as a crackpot. But my gut tells me this guy is no crackpot, and I certainly hope that Congress calls him in to hear what he has to say.

Yesterday, ABC reported that Tice admitted being a source for the NY Times article that broke the domestic spying story. And, as predicted…

The NSA revoked Tice's security clearance in May of last year based on what it called psychological concerns and later dismissed him. Tice calls that bunk and says that's the way the NSA deals with troublemakers and whistleblowers. Today the NSA said it had "no information to provide."

So predictable.