Congress to review NSA eavesdropping charges

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Congress to review NSA eavesdropping charges
By Rick Maze and William H. McMichael - Staff writers
Posted : Friday Oct 10, 2008 16:03:12 EDT

The chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence proposes a full investigation of allegations that the National Security Agency eavesdropped on personal and intimate telephone calls between deployed service members and their friends and family and even circulated some of the spicier calls among NSA workers for amusement.

Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, who heads the Senate panel overseeing the NSA and its intelligence program that monitors calls from overseas to the U.S., said the allegations made by two military linguists who formerly worked for the NSA “are extremely disturbing.”

The linguists made the allegations in interviews with ABC News.

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence “is examining this now and we have requested all relevant information from the Bush Administration,” Rockefeller said. “The committee will take whatever action is necessary to ensure those rules are followed and any violations are addressed.”

One reason the allegations have received so much attention is that the linguists spoke of intimate and sexually oriented telephone calls being monitored even though it appeared clear that these were private conversations between people who posed no national security threat to the U.S.


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