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FORT MEADE, MDThe director of the National Security Agency announced at a press conference Tuesday that the ongoing phone surveillance of Cincinnati resident Greg Wyckham has yielded "overwhelming and incontrovertible" evidence that the 37-year-old high-school teacher and married father of three is wasting money on a long-distance plan that does not suit his calling needs.
According to Lt. Gen. Keith B. Alexander, Wyckham, who caught the attention of authorities in July 2004 when he placed a call to his first wife, has spent an average of $75 a month on long distance, "when he could have been saving as much as $30 per billing period."
Alexander cited additional examples of Wyckham's reckless long-distance use, which included a late-afternoon call to his mother in Colorado last spring and several March 2005 calls to old college friends to plan a summer mini-reunion. In January, a lengthy conversation with his cousin in California cost nearly $10.
Added Alexander: "Bear in mind that this is a man who earns only $43,220 a year. With both a Dodge minivan in desperate need of repair and an upcoming vasectomy to pay for, he should be more concerned about these expenses."
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ZombieHorde
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(72,631 posts)& Rec !!!
MADem
(135,425 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)or is that just a baseless rumor started by the Onion?
thesquanderer
(12,242 posts)satirical piece about the Onion closing because they can't come up with fiction nearly as ridiculous as Republican reality.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)of jokes. That's part of what makes a workday survivable, isn't it? Why should it be any different at Booz Allen or the NSA? Let's just hope the belly laughs they get when they see the many, many calls from lonely congressmen living in crumby places in D.C. while their wives are living in their home districts don't reverberate in the halls of Congress. It must be hilarious to review the calls of members of Congress and their staffs, to say nothing of Scalia's orders for late-night Italian food.
Entertaining business, I'm sure.
Historic NY
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(84,711 posts)I'm one of those that AT&T is SCAMING....