It seems a little premature for the president to outline reforms for the NSA when we don't even know what it is exactly the agency is collecting. Every week, it seems, there's a new revelation about the extent of surveillance. On Thursday, the Guardian newspaper unveiled documents from Edward Snowden showing that back in 2011, the NSA was collecting nearly 200 million text messages a day. That's not just metadata, it's content -- something other whistleblowers have been saying for a long time. Is there any reason we shouldn't be listening to them now? Russell Tice worked as an analyst at the NSA for two decades. He was dismissed in 2005, after sharing his concerns about the agency's domestic spy activities with higher-ups. He later made the rounds on television talk shows saying, among other things, that the government was spying on journalists. He was labeled a loon by many. Yet, we learned last year from the AP spy scandal the government was, in fact, spying on...(Read Full Post)