10-10-2008, 08:49 AM
Here is the story Duchess sent to me so everyone can read:
Wiretappers Passed Around Intimate Calls
At a February press conference a reporter pointed out to President Bush that the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program is "not intended to spy on Americans, but in the collection process, information about everybody gets swept up and then it gets sorted."
Bush responded, "People who analyze the program fully understand that America's civil liberties are well protected. There is a constant check to make sure that our civil liberties of our citizens are treated with respect."
It turns out that the privacy and civil liberties of American citizens were most certainly not treated with respect. In fact, according to a report from ABC News, the calls of hundreds of US citizens were exposed to ridicule by National Security Agency employees, including some calls that included sexual content. Many of the calls came from American military officers in the Green Zone in Iraq.
One of two independent whistle blowers, former Navy linguist David Murfee Faulk told ABC News that that others would tell him about what they considered! to be a musing phone calls. According to Faulk, they would say, for example, "Hey, check this out, 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'."
Senate Intelligence Chair Jay Rockefeller said that his committee has begun an investigation.
Wiretappers Passed Around Intimate Calls
At a February press conference a reporter pointed out to President Bush that the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program is "not intended to spy on Americans, but in the collection process, information about everybody gets swept up and then it gets sorted."
Bush responded, "People who analyze the program fully understand that America's civil liberties are well protected. There is a constant check to make sure that our civil liberties of our citizens are treated with respect."
It turns out that the privacy and civil liberties of American citizens were most certainly not treated with respect. In fact, according to a report from ABC News, the calls of hundreds of US citizens were exposed to ridicule by National Security Agency employees, including some calls that included sexual content. Many of the calls came from American military officers in the Green Zone in Iraq.
One of two independent whistle blowers, former Navy linguist David Murfee Faulk told ABC News that that others would tell him about what they considered! to be a musing phone calls. According to Faulk, they would say, for example, "Hey, check this out, 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'."
Senate Intelligence Chair Jay Rockefeller said that his committee has begun an investigation.