Should Be Big News, Yes?

Given the election and all it's easy to forget who's actually running this country:

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.

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"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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"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.

Great. So we're not only being spied upon but there are "intelligence officers" stroking their dicks to our conversations.

Good thing Obama voted for telecom immunity, though.

[Via Glenn Greenwald.]

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Comments

[gyma]

Hey, that shit isn't important because Obama has really poor judgment because he associates with known terrorist Bill Ayers. Half this country is clearly out of their minds.

Are you still sure you'll stay if McCain/Palin get elected? I'm continue researching other possibilities, just in case!!

[spork_incident]

America is my ship and I'll be standing on the prow singing "Nearer My God to Thee" as it sinks beneath the waves.

(Wow, that's some purple prose.)

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