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Just in case you missed it:

ITEM: The National Security Agency routinely listened in on the intimate and innocent phone calls of Americans in Iraq, including government personnel, journalists and aid workers, as they called back into the United States, according to two former NSA operators who spoke to ABC News.

Oh, it gets better.

[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’.”

Full details here.

FUN FACT 01: Junior Bush justified the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program by claiming they only listened to suspected al Qaeda members.

FUN FACT 02:
A judge ruled in 2006 that the program was illegal and unconstitutional.

FUN FACT 03: Congress made it legal in July.

I’m just saying.

Now hear this,

This is dF

on 2008-10-11 03:36 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] bluesgirly.livejournal.com
We are SO SCREWED.

I figure I'm going to have to come up with epic cleverness to amuse my flist while WE ARE STILL ALLOWED TO BE ON LJ without a government monitor.

Oh Lord help us all.

Have I mentioned that Bush is the most scary man ever to walk planet earth?

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