Bush Administration tapped intimate calls from Americans overseas

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U.S. intelligence analysts eavesdropped on personal calls between Americans overseas and their families back home and monitored the communications of workers with the Red Cross and other humanitarian organizations, according to two military linguists involved in U.S. surveillance programs.

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The linguists said that recordings of intimate conversations between citizens and their loved ones were sometimes passed around, out of prurient interest, among analysts at an electronic surveillance facility at Ft. Gordon, Ga.

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"I observed people writing down, word for word, very embarrassing conversations," Faulk told The Times. "People would say, 'Hey, check this out, you're not going to believe what I heard.' "

Their claims were reported Thursday by ABC News.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/f...0,1778799.story

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Yeah, I saw that yesterday night.

Where's the outrage?

[symbiosis 0]

I think we're all too exhausted to outrage anymore. This administration has trampled on every right and blown up the economy.

It's what we've come to expect.

[Dan J 277]

Maybe they need a breach in security so that these call become public before anyone will care.

[pedroh 21]

na but since they started wiretapping there hasn't been another terrorist attack..

etc etc

[luckytxn 2,265]

It was field operatives that stepped over the line. Now many years ago way before all this 911 stuff, I was in the military overseas and we called back home we knew we were possibly being monitored. This goes way back. The NIA has always monitored most calls made overseas. Is it right? No but it is a program that has been around way before Bush came to office.

[natty bumppo 297]

U.S. intelligence analysts eavesdropped on personal calls between Americans overseas and their families back home and monitored the communications of workers with the Red Cross and other humanitarian organizations, according to two military linguists involved in U.S. surveillance programs.

...

The linguists said that recordings of intimate conversations between citizens and their loved ones were sometimes passed around, out of prurient interest, among analysts at an electronic surveillance facility at Ft. Gordon, Ga.

...

"I observed people writing down, word for word, very embarrassing conversations," Faulk told The Times. "People would say, 'Hey, check this out, you're not going to believe what I heard.' "

Their claims were reported Thursday by ABC News.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/f...0,1778799.story

not the first time this has happened .... FDR & company censored tons of correspondence during WWII ...

nothing new here ... move along

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I did not realize we were in the midst of a World War. Silly me.

[IAMX 3,055]

I did not realize we were in the midst of a World War. Silly me.

But we are in the midst of a government finding any way to squelch dissent and remove privacy.

Does that count?

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I did not realize we were in the midst of a World War. Silly me.

But we are in the midst of a government finding any way to squelch dissent and remove privacy.

Does that count?

[natty bumppo 297]

I did not realize we were in the midst of a World War. Silly me.

it's a military thing ... and has been done before during times of conflict ...

what is the real difference between then ... and now?

[luckytxn 2,265]

Gee folks. This ####### has been going on for a long time. Why the uproar now? Oh yeah y'alls hated President is still in office. Guess the Dems in office when this was going on was ok. They had to be a lot more honest.

[luckytxn 2,265]

I did not realize we were in the midst of a World War. Silly me.

it's a military thing ... and has been done before during times of conflict ...

what is the real difference between then ... and now?

It has always been done and even during peacetime. The NIA is a huge info gathering entity. Just think of this. When we call or are chatting with our loved ones even in yahoo chat or anything they can be listening in. This program has been around for ages and to blame this admin is rediculous. It is wrong now to do it and it was wrong way back when.

[natty bumppo 297]

Gee folks. This ####### has been going on for a long time. Why the uproar now? Oh yeah y'alls hated President is still in office. Guess the Dems in office when this was going on was ok. They had to be a lot more honest.

at that time sections of letters were removed or "blacked out" so it was known the mail was read by censors ...

[luckytxn 2,265]

Gee folks. This ####### has been going on for a long time. Why the uproar now? Oh yeah y'alls hated President is still in office. Guess the Dems in office when this was going on was ok. They had to be a lot more honest.

at that time sections of letters were removed or "blacked out" so it was known the mail was read by censors ...

Actually Natty you are thinking of writing letters from military posts. This is a different program that the article is talking about. It monitors all calls made from overseas. We were told when we arrived at a new base and we were making a call that our calls MAY be monitored.

Most people do not realize that any calls made by ANYONE overseas (There or here) could be monitored and listened. This is way before 911 and has been or was the sole focus of the National Intelligence Agency for most of their being. Now they are tasked with new powers and all but all calls can be monitored. It has been known for many years that since the internet came into being that they could also monitor communications by messengers and other things. Again way before Bush came into office.