U.S. Officers' "Phone Sex" Intercepted, Recorded, Shared Across NSA Listening Post

[RiverStone]

Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on as they called friends and family back home, according to two former military intercept operators who worked at the giant National Security Agency (NSA) center in Fort Gordon, Georgia.

Intercept operators allege the NSA is listening to citizens' phone calls.
"These were just really everyday, average, ordinary Americans who happened to be in the Middle East, in our area of intercept and happened to be making these phone calls on satellite phones," said Adrienne Kinne, a 31-year old US Army Reserves Arab linguist assigned to a special military program at the NSA's Back Hall at Fort Gordon from November 2001 to 2003.

Kinne described the contents of the calls as "personal, private things with Americans who are not in any way, shape or form associated with anything to do with terrorism."

She said US military officers, American journalists and American aid workers were routinely intercepted and "collected on" as they called their offices or homes in the United States.

Another intercept operator, former Navy Arab linguist, David Murfee Faulk, 39, said he and his fellow intercept operators listened into hundreds of Americans picked up using phones in Baghdad's Green Zone from late 2003 to November 2007.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5987804&page=1

What a surprise! :sarcasm: :mad:

[Greyskye]

1. "This story is to surveillance law what Abu Ghraib was to prison law,"

"This story is to surveillance law what Abu Ghraib was to prison law," Turley said.

Yep. Who didn't see this coming? :eyes:

[originalpckelly]

2. But if you just don't have phone sex there's not a problem...

:P

:sarcasm:

[w4rma]

3. Yup. Anyone who didn't see this coming doesn't understand reality. (nt)

[ArbustoBuster]

4. The important thing is, this is completely confirmed.

Two whistleblowers, who didn't know each other and who each didn't know the other was coming forward, and yet both of them give the exact same story.

So tell me, CIA chief Hayden, were you lying when you said that you weren't spying on Americans, or are you just so incompetent that you didn't know about this? It's a choice between being sent to prison and being fired. You get to choose, sir.