BREAKING: US Government listening to American Troops phone calls back into the US......

[RollWithIt]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/09/spying.on.americans/index.html

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Congress is looking into allegations that National Security Agency linguists have been eavesdropping on Americans abroad.
Government linguists say the U.S. eavesdropped on Americans, including military officers serving in Iraq.

The congressional oversight committees said Thursday that the Americans targeted included military officers in Iraq who called friends and family in the United States.

The allegations were made by two former military intercept operators on a television news report Thursday evening.

A terrorist surveillance program instituted by the Bush administration allows the intelligence community to monitor phone calls between the United States and overseas without a court order -- as long as one party to the call is a terror suspect.

Adrienne Kinne, a former U.S. Army Reserves Arab linguist, told ABC News the NSA was listening to the phone calls of U.S. military officers, journalists and aid workers overseas who were talking about "personal, private things with Americans who are not in any way, shape or form associated with anything to do with terrorism."

David Murfee Faulk, a former U.S. Navy Arab linguist, said in the news report that he and his colleagues were listening to the conversations of military officers in Iraq who were talking with their spouses or girlfriends in the United States.

According to Faulk, they would often share the contents of some of the more salacious calls stored on their computers, listening to what he called "phone sex" and "pillow talk."

[Bluebear]

1. This is how the GOP "supports the troops". By using their personal calls as porn. nt

[Botany]

2. Damn who knew our troops were terrorists?

Once again ....

bush/Cheney used the NSA to spy on us
and the DoJ was the muscle w/ the US Attorneys
being the "hit men."

[Rancid Crabtree]

3. I long for you tragically...

...thought maybe we had a Catch-22 moment, Irving Washington listening in...doesn't work...I'm sure these allegations will be investigated and it will be discovered that the perpetrators broke the rules on their own...but I did see an interesting bug this past weekend...talking with the neighbor about his teenage son and their escapades the previous evening, homecoming weekend, paintball guns, salad dressing...the bug began hovering nearby shortly thereafter...homeland security perhaps?

[Duke Newcombe]

4. "They hate us for our freedoms", indeed...

So our fighting boys and girls go to a war they should never have been sent to, and can't even share intimate moments on the phone with their loved ones without BushCheneyMcCain spying on them.

Barack, Joe...hit this s*&t EVERY. FREAKIN'. DAY until November 4th. That our so-called "war hero" disrespects the troops...AGAIN.

Duke

[RoyGBiv]

5. Class Action Suit in the Making ...

I see a class action in this. If individual soldiers can determine their calls were captured and used in such a manner, they should be able to sue ... I mean $3.99/minute/per listener (unless they wanna be generous and give them the party line rate) isn't small change, dontcha know.

:evilgrin: