NSA Whistleblower Asks to Testify

Conservative blogs are redicting that not only will the NSA issue blow over, but that The New York Times will be too stupid to drop the story while Bush won't even get close to an impeachemnt hearing for said activity.

Eh, we can only hope:

"A former National Security Agency official wants to tell Congress about electronic intelligence programs that he asserts were carried out illegally by the NSA and the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Russ Tice, a whistleblower who was dismissed from the NSA last year, stated in letters to the House and Senate intelligence committees that he is prepared to testify about highly classified Special Access Programs, or SAPs, that were improperly carried out by both the NSA and the DIA.

'I intend to report to Congress probable unlawful and unconstitutional acts conducted while I was an intelligence officer with the National Security Agency and with the Defense Intelligence Agency,' Mr. Tice stated in the Dec. 16 letters, copies of which were obtained by The Washington Times. "