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"Part of my job at NSA was to develop technical cover stories to hide the true nature of NSA's involvement in intelligence and DoD operations. In terms of information that NSA collects illegally and unconstitutionally then provides to other agencies like the FBI and DEA, NSA also provides the other agencies with orders not to implicate NSA with the information and provides technical cover stories (parallel constructions) to be used in case they get called on the carpet in a court case. An example of this is the fact that NSA has unconstitutionally targeted, without warrant, US citizens' phone and computer communications (word-for-word) content, and then told the FBI and Department Of in-Justice (DOJ) to only use the metadata in court, not the content, even though the content was also provided via NSA intercepts. The mass metadata collection by NSA has been revealed by Mr. Snowden's Verizon mandate from the FISA court. The fact that NSA has collected most all domestic comms content is hidden in the "black world" at NSA, where Mr. Snowden had no access. But this was only to cover metadata and to be cited on a one case bases it used. In other words to just give a judge the verbal explanation that the FISA court issued a warrant for the defendant an but not let the judge know it was a mass warrant. Of course that unconstitutional mass warrant was made in the FBI's name. The truth is that NSA has been collecting (word-for-word) content for nearly ALL US domestic communications. There intent all along was to "collect it all", but they did not reach that technical capability to do so until 2012. I have written many technical cover story explanations to mask Intelligence Community participation in covert operations. Bottom-line in this case, the FBI is lying to the judge, and has now injected a cover story that was provided to them by the NSA. Russ Tice, former NSA Intelligence Analyst & Operations Officer for Black Programs."
Ross's lawyer has a promising future thats all i have to say and Ross is going to make millions in or out of Jail either off a book or he going to be hired by a tech company if he wins.