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Jason Tate
10/09/08, 09:53 AM
However, ABC News reports that the NSA frequently listened to and transcribed the private phone calls of Americans abroad (http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=5987804&page=2), according to two former military intercept operators. These conversations included those of American soldiers stationed in Iraq and American aid workers abroad, such as Doctors Without Borders:
[Former Navy Arab linguist David Murfee] Faulk says he and others in his section of the NSA facility at Fort Gordon routinely shared salacious or tantalizing phone calls that had been intercepted, alerting office mates to certain time codes of “cuts” that were available on each operator’s computer.
“Hey, check this out,” Faulk says he would be told, “there’s good phone sex or there’s some pillow talk, pull up this call, it’s really funny, go check it out. It would be some colonel making pillow talk and we would say, ‘Wow, this was crazy’,” Faulk told ABC News. […]
“We knew they were working for these aid organizations,” [former Army Reserves Arab linguist Adrienne] Kinne told ABC News. “They were identified in our systems as ‘belongs to the International Red Cross’ and all these other organizations. And yet, instead of blocking these phone numbers we continued to collect on them,” she told ABC News.
Kinne called Bush’s assurances that the U.S. was only tracking phone calls of a “known al Qaeda suspect” “completely a lie.” Click here (http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=5987804&page=1) to watch ABC’s report.


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This is so beyond outrageous that I can't think straight.
nfggc10
10/09/08, 10:08 AM
Ironic seeing as though Republicans are the party always touting that they'll protect our freedoms and how we need less government.

More networks besides ABC need to pick this up.
Sic Transit Zeb
10/09/08, 10:12 AM
Not surprised at all. The patriot act goes against 5-7 constitutional rights.

The republican party only wants to protect our right to have guns and try to influence our social lives. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they, in some way, screened most calls at home. Not to sound too conspiracy theory but I don't tihnk it would be that hard, the technology is there. With the internet, you can search just one word or block one word, so why couldn't they do that with phones? Wouldn't be that hard.
Burning Star IV
10/09/08, 10:27 AM
Old news is old?

I though this happened a while ago?
boykosaurus
10/09/08, 12:02 PM
Hopefully they didn't monitor those sexy texts I sent to my gf while I was overseas M-(
saysmydoctor
10/09/08, 12:37 PM
PATRIOT Act Multi-Point Authority, Section 206?
lew_1987
10/09/08, 04:07 PM
This is the end.
SilenceBrokenTT
10/09/08, 04:10 PM
So that's what they were doing in Signal Towers...

Fort Boredom... thank God I left that place in early May before it REALLY started getting hot/humid. Missed some nasty tornado's by a couple days too...
timchoke
10/09/08, 09:20 PM
First, isn't this old? Or is this just another case of it.

Also, thank god we don't have to vote for McCain, who supports the PATRIOT Act! I'm glad we have Obama, who only votes to reauthorize FISA. Yes we can...wiretap.
EchoPark
10/10/08, 06:48 AM
Interesting indeed. I wonder if any of my drunken 2am calls home to my Dad to rant how Bush has tarnished our image overseas hit their radar, I hope so.
FScott
10/10/08, 08:33 AM
Ironic seeing as though Republicans are the party always touting that they'll protect our freedoms and how we need less government.

Limited government= tax cuts for the wealthy. Only the rich enjoy "small government" under the Republican party.

"The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then get elected and prove it."
P.J. O'ROURKE
Nourez
10/12/08, 07:38 AM
Have any of you watched Eagle Eye? The beginning of the movie starts the exact same way...
incredulous
10/12/08, 09:50 PM
They just don't want to pay for their own phone sex. No personal responsibility these days.
3eb23
10/13/08, 01:01 PM
oh yeah this is definitely a possibility
atticusfinch
10/13/08, 01:05 PM
Not surprising in the least.
nkalldayyy
10/14/08, 12:27 PM
i feel violated.
Olympia
10/14/08, 01:20 PM
Not surprising in the least.

Nope. Our Government does all kind of sketchy shit that's worse than this we'll only find out about 30 years later.

The quickest example I can think of is the CIA's handling of the Marxist group, the Sandinistas in the 70's. I forget which country it was in Central/South America but every time the Sandinstas would do a bombing of an embassy or something they would dip their hands in white paint and mark the area with white hand prints.

So what the CIA decides to do is bomb an orphanage and leave white hand prints all over the place.

Nobody knew about that until the 90's.
atticusfinch
10/14/08, 08:16 PM
Nope. Our Government does all kind of sketchy shit that's worse than this we'll only find out about 30 years later.

The quickest example I can think of is the CIA's handling of the Marxist group, the Sandinistas in the 70's. I forget which country it was in Central/South America but every time the Sandinstas would do a bombing of an embassy or something they would dip their hands in white paint and mark the area with white hand prints.

So what the CIA decides to do is bomb an orphanage and leave white hand prints all over the place.

Nobody knew about that until the 90's.

Are you familiar with National Security Presidential Directive 51?
It was signed into law by Bush one year ago, it basically gives Bush the power to postpone the election if he feels that a state of emergency cannot be resolved.

If the markets keep downtrodding the way they are, we could be setting up for Martial Law, and a true police state. There have been signs of it for the past 3-6 years, and now, we're scarily approaching a time I really don't want to be a part of.

The sad thing? One World Bank/Government seems to be the goal of the CFR, and nobody knows what to do about it, or how to stop it.
Olympia
10/15/08, 12:13 AM
Are you familiar with National Security Presidential Directive 51?
It was signed into law by Bush one year ago, it basically gives Bush the power to postpone the election if he feels that a state of emergency cannot be resolved.

If the markets keep downtrodding the way they are, we could be setting up for Martial Law, and a true police state. There have been signs of it for the past 3-6 years, and now, we're scarily approaching a time I really don't want to be a part of.

Yes, our rights can be taken away at any moment, which is why we need to become educated, ask questions, and look closer.
AP_Punk
10/15/08, 12:20 AM
God bless america!

:waves flag:
Olympia
10/15/08, 12:22 AM
God bless america!

:waves flag:

Honestly, the combination of this post and your avatar is awesome.
AP_Punk
10/15/08, 12:23 AM
Honestly, the combination of this post and your avatar is awesome.

Haha. Thanks. I display my avatar proudly. Yours is nice as well!
Olympia
10/15/08, 12:25 AM
Haha. Thanks. I display my avatar proudly. Yours is nice as well!

Thanks. I'd like to think so.
SoggY ThE OnE
10/15/08, 06:15 AM
Are you familiar with National Security Presidential Directive 51?
It was signed into law by Bush one year ago, it basically gives Bush the power to postpone the election if he feels that a state of emergency cannot be resolved.

If the markets keep downtrodding the way they are, we could be setting up for Martial Law, and a true police state. There have been signs of it for the past 3-6 years, and now, we're scarily approaching a time I really don't want to be a part of.

The sad thing? One World Bank/Government seems to be the goal of the CFR, and nobody knows what to do about it, or how to stop it.

Sometimes I wish I were Canadian. That is some scary stuff.