Whisteblowers: Bush administration eavesdropping on Americans
Posted by Jacque on October 9th, 2008
ABC news is reporting on two whistleblowing former government intercept operators at the National Security Administration (NSA), saying phone calls were monitored that were “personal, private things with Americans who are not in any way, shape or form associated with anything to do with terrorism.”
Ordinary Americans in middle eastern intercept areas using satellite phones to call home were listened to, as were those using phones in Baghdad’s Green Zone over a period of years while the Bush Administration continued to issue denials.
“The accounts of the two former intercept operators, who have never met and did not know of the other’s allegations, provide the first inside look at the day to day operations of the huge and controversial US terrorist surveillance program,” says ABC News. “They raise serious questions about how much respect is accorded those Americans whose conversations are intercepted in the name of fighting terrorism.”
Calls were recorded, transcribed, and often passed around among NSA employees when they included phone sex. Watch the video on the ABC site for the details about this illegal, egregious activity.