Walking to my gate at the airport yesterday, I caught the tail end of a CNN story on NSA Whistleblower Russell Tice. There was lots of noise (it being an airport after all), but one thing he said caught my attention. He said that current NSA employees he’s spoken with consider Bush’s illegal wiretapping to be a “betrayal.”

“If you are a signals intelligence officer, it is drilled into your head from early training on that you do not spy on Americans, period,” Tice said.

Absolutely correct. As I said before, Bush has brought undue suspicion to an agency doing heroic work for our country.

It’s time for some answers.