WMR will be at the US Courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland today covering the trial of former National Security Agency (NSA) analyst Kenneth Ford

December 1, 2005 -- WMR will be at the US Courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland today covering the trial of former National Security Agency (NSA) analyst Kenneth Ford. He is charged with illegally possessing classified material. This case is yet another example of the out-of-control NSA Security Directorate, which is being used as a virtual Stasi to harass, terminate, and, now in the case of Ford, imprison anyone who crosses its path.

The Associated Press reports on this trial are extremely biased in favor of the government so their coverage of the case should be taken with a very small grain of salt. This is how the AP reported the first day of the trial: "A former National Security Agency employee admitted to backing his pickup truck up to an unguarded exit and hauling away boxes of classified material, an FBI agent testified Tuesday." The AP would seem to have found Ford guilty.
NSA Security Directorate: Another day, another outrage

The government is charging Ford took classified material home to use on a resumé for a job in the private sector. Ford is also charged with making a false statement on a security clearance form for Lockheed Martin, a charge that almost never ends up in Federal court.

However, this case involves a jaded witness, Ford's one-time girl friend, "Tanya Tucker," an individual who has a long rap sheet, aliases, and a history of informing for the FBI, according to informed sources. Knowledgeable sources also report that Ford worked as an analyst on communications intercepts involving two major events: 911 and the lead up to the Iraq War. It is obvious that the Bush Justice Department and Pentagon has gone to great lengths to see Ford out of commission for ten years in a Federal penitentiary.

For NSA, the Ford case represents a return to past institutionalized racism at the signals intelligence agency and yet another example of an unrestrained Security Directorate working with untrustworthy FBI agents.

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