Eww-is this what the Patriot Act is for?

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Registered: 09-26-2008
Eww-is this what the Patriot Act is for?
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Thu, 10-09-2008 - 5:38pm

Why do Republicans have such an interest in other people having sex and what they do in the bedroom and on the phone?



Exclusive: Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans


U.S. Officers' "Phone Sex" Intercepted; Senate Demanding Answers


By BRIAN ROSS, VIC WALTER, and ANNA SCHECTER
Oct. 9, 2008




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.


The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), called the allegations "extremely disturbing" and said the committee has begun its own examination.



"We have requested all relevant information from the Bush Administration," Rockefeller said Thursday. "The Committee will take whatever action is necessary."



"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."



WATCH Kinne discuss why it was 'awkward' listening to her fellow Americans.




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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 5:54pm

I thought the one posted this morning was worse, but could be a toss-up:

http://messageboards.ivillage.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=iv-elpoliticsto&msg=17286.1&x=y

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-08-2008
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 5:56pm
Woof. Welcome to the Police States of America.