Posted on 10/09/2008 8:00:23 AM PDT by steve-b
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.
"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."...
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....
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
“If the dems come to power and I am in the meddle east they are welcome to enjoy my pillow talk if it means protecting my country.”
Assuming you have a daughter, suppose she calls you while you’re over there and tearfully admits to an abortion. You still have no objections to Seaman Schumukatelly listening in on your “pillow talk?” Please understand I hope you never have to endure this type of scenario and am mentioning it for demonstrative purposes only.
I take it you didn't actually read the entire article.
"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,: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...
"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
Especially if she tells you in Arabic.
You sound like the pointy-haired boss who went off on a tear after being informed that 40% of sick days were taken on Monday and Friday.
Actually I have read the article 3 times, and I still don’t understand your comments.
What’s not to understand? These jack-offs (literally?) are using the surveillance system as a personal phone-sex line instead of doing their jobs.
So NSA shouldn’t be monitoring phone calls from Americans who just happen to be in the middle east. Phone calls to Arabic speaking people.
Is that what you are saying?
What should NSA be doing?
Ft. Leavenworth probably has a room available
You said “The so called listening happened when so called Americans were overseas not in America.” Since US military officers serving in Iraq were listened in on, I can only assume that they fall into your category of “so called Americans.” Does that make it clear?
And the flip side is NOT having access to terrorists talking about blowing people up?
You can't be serious.
Tax dollars have been used in listening into networks and intercepting genuine information about terror activities.
One of the very, very best use of tax dollars.
All I know is that I'm not paying these guys to sit around jerking off while they listen to salacious private conversations.
Anyone remember Echelon? A Clinton Admin. program allowing the Brits to listen to Americans , the US listening to Brits. Then exchanging info.
IOW, nothing new and repub.
On another note, some years ago I worked in a job that got calls from individuals at a nearby AFB.
Many calls were recorded, even though the calls had nothing to do w/ the AF or the base.
While conversing w/ the airmen, every 30 sec. there was a beep alerting us the call was being recorded.
You know nothing.
You read something about the NSA in an AP news story, but you know nothing about the NSA.
You know for sure that the guys were sitting around jerking off.
If so, NSA would like to hear from you.
Cut this guy loose, Dave. The problem wasn’t the eavesdropping, it was the gossip.
What should NSA be doing?
Not monitoring the phone calls of America’s military heroes period.
What should NSA be doing?
Not monitoring the phone calls of America’s military heroes period.
The NSA intercepts telecommunications!? WHO’DA THUNK IT!
This kind of feigned indignation and surprise is really irritating. The biggest collection of the cream of the mental crop with the biggest computer network on the planet - what do you think they do?! They’ve been doing this since they were No Such Agency.
So we no longer have Benedict Arnolds in our military?
My uncles in WWII had every piece of mail sent to their relatives censored and often parts would arrive at home with a lot of deletions.
The same happened with my cousins in the Korean war.
A simple unintended slip of the lip can mean the death of innocent warriors then and today.
With millions of Opecker Thug money around, the slips might be intentional.
Anyone using a private or public sat phone in the middle east or S America is a possible suspect and will be monitored.
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