Domestic Wiretapping First Hand Account: NSA Listened To Phone Sex

ABC:

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."

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Comments

[jdenham]

Well Republicans have nothing to worry about or do they?

[sposton]

Brownshirts are protected. Republicans like president Eisenhower (if any are still around) could end up in a Hulliburton built conz-lagers.

[HowietheScreamer]

Protected only until the "night of long knives" then all bets are off.

[BannedInBoston]

They don't have phone s.ex, just airport restroom s.ex....

[happyobama]

That is cool. They can listen to mine.

http://tinyurl.com/3zm7yz

[CtJean]

I GIVE GOOD PHONE!

[TN]

I was at a store the other day and this kid tells me he works for the dept. of homeland security and they just installed cameras along the interstate every 3 miles along I-40 from cookville to Nashville. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU

They are spending billions to spy on us and we are bankrupt.

[sposton]

That is why we are bankrupt. Terrorists spent about $400,000 and we have spent trillions in response.

[HatingTheGame]

Yeah, but they couldn't produce any credible video of the so-called jumbo jet slamming into the Pentagon on Sept 11 2001 (which should be as monitored as any interstate). In fact, apparently they went to all of the CCTVs around the Pentagon (like at a gas station across the street) and have not produced them, even for the 911 Commission.

All they could produce was shaky, grainy set of pictures that don't prove anything. This fact, along with the fact that there was no indication of any disturbance in the approach to the Pentagon (perfect grass, standing lamp posts, except one or two), etc. and the fact that no evidence of a plane (other than a part of a plane engine that was way too small for the type of jet), and oh so many other inconsistencies and lack of evidence.

You'd think that Big Brother would be watching themselves much better than that. Maybe they were, but they don't want us to see what really hit the building.

Who is watching the watchers??

[Durango]

Don't know if what you heard was true or not but that is the biggest scandal going. The waste of resources on programs that are not effective or efficient.

If it is true about the cameras along the Interstate they were no doubt part of a package sold to the government by lobbyists who were big time Bush campaign contributors.

And the government bought the program, not because of the improvement in security it offered, but because it would pay off political friends of the Administration.

Every move Bush and Company have made for the past 8 years was designed for partisan political advantage. And every nickel spent was with an eye to rewarding their friends and increasing the advantage.

The security of the American people could be damned. It was unimportant compared to the Permanent Republican Majority.

[BannedInBoston]

I-40 must rock?

[beanchihuahua]

Oh no they di-ii-nt. God forbid someone stuck in a combat zone for 15 months gets a little pick me up via the phone lines.

[standup2them]

Hey the solders should beable to talk to their loved ones. And I do believe in security to protect everyone. i don't mind if they listen to my phone calls, but for the people that are telling their people to listen to a solder who has not been home and loves his wife or girlfriend and have a personal confersion on the phone and then are people telling other people to listen to it- well thats disgusting. Thankx Bush-- thats just down right digusting. What are they saying to the men and women owe are fighting for our country? They don't trust them? Its simply wrong to do that. I believe and securty at the airports and other things that need to be protected. But are they listening to the wrong People? Don't they trust our troops? I feel sorry for the troops who private phone calls were listened to by people who shouldn't be getting off on it and exploiting it. Thankx Bush and Cheny!! You are the ones who shouldn't be trusted.

[cryingeagle]

I haven't seen any foreign terrorists, just local ones, you know like the ones on the news each night, but they're all from around here.

[Tom95134]

Yeah, so? These were phone calls from outside the United States back to the United States. In addition, they were calls from a war zone. As a final point they were using cell or satellite phones. While the passing around and group listening of intercepted calls may be inappropriate there is no law broken here. Anybody working in a military area should expect that their phone calls will be monitored.

There is nothing to see here... move along.

[ellawensmom]

Well, then perhaps you'd be good enough to post any naughty little phone calls you've made on youtube. If It's good enough for our troops and humanitarian workers, it's good enough for us, right?

[ellawensmom]

Oh yeah, and as far as that "nothing to see here, move along." comment.
Were you forgetting that you're not on a Joe 6 pack comment board?
Over here in Brain Land, we don't move along like sheep, Sir.

[JohnFromCensornati]

Except for the Je$u$ lovers (sheep).

[JohnFromCensornati]

Nothing to see. Correct. They are *listening*. Video installation is in the works.

[laocoon]

the constitution prohibits unreasonable searches. if the search is inappropriate then it might be unreasonable.

[sposton]

It is time to shrink the military-security complex to the size commensurate with protection of our Republic, not the Empire. We may even save some badly needed $$ to help us dig ourselves out of this economic black hole. How much does it cost to fight useless wars and maintain about 700 military outposts around the world? And we cannot even catch Bin Laden!

[jurornumber13]

Whats that Gene Hackman, Will Smith movie?

[WildBill]

Enemy of the State. Gen'l Michael Hayden, the current director of the CIA, viewed the movie at a base theater in Korea on the day he was appointed director of the NSA in 1999. He was miffed at what he thought was an untruthful portrayal of the agency he had just been appointed to direct.

[ccpostman]

They should use this technology on Wall Street and phone calls/wire transfers to office shore banks.

Maybe we would know who has all our money now?

Get our money back and nail the banking and broker crooks!

[itmaybetoolate]

Really, who could have predicted THIS - you know, with human nature being what it is.

[beck]

Are they thinking of banning phone sex?

[JohnFromCensornati]

Big brother's watching
We watch him back
We see right through his disguise
He tries to scare us with angry words, but we all know that they're lies
Whole world is waiting
Just see the fear in their eyes
Whole world is watching
Anticipating
Big brother's marching
Is it beginning or the end?

Wake up! It's 1984.

[lisakaz2]

OMG! Sex on the phone! What a calamnity. Has that become illegal or did these guys become such dorks that they don't get any? This is shameful, even beyond shameful.

[Chavez08]

If these d*ckless, spineless federal opportunists get a chance to live vicariously through the innocent American citizens they are betraying in the name of fascism, treason and greed, I say let them have their moments.

[patianneb]

What empty shells these eavesdroppers must be It's a very sick form of voyeurism in my view.

[ShakeYourComplacency]

We knew this would happen. And the lame defense that employees of the US government should expect their calls monitored doesn't fly. How are journalists employees? This is definitely a constitutional violation because a government listening in on calls from journalists circumvents our right to a free press. The constitution doesn't say, free inside our boders and not free once you cross the border. It says free, period.

Also, the idea they gave us that it was data mining that wouldn't pick out calls unless certain terrorists words were picked up is bogus as well, because they are listening to these calls deliberately and have the ability to easily mark them and save them. Nothing is anonymous about it. I'm not saying they don't have trigger words. You can bet one of the words is "Republica­n." They get to listen to any conversation which talks about their political party. This is political abuse of power. And you can bet they are doing it in the states and not just in the middle east.

We are becoming like the old Soviet Union more and more every day. As US citizens, we used to laugh at the paranoid behavior of their government, and how they would listen in on phone calls. Now our government does that.