We Would Never Spy on Innocent Americans
We all remember BushCo and his minions scoffing away as folks concerned about (the inevitable) abuses of collecting telephone data on Americans in an overly broad fashion. We were told that this would be only target evil-doers and those who talk to them.
Well,eavesdropping on Americans overseas is not only routine, but it is a sport:
Faulk says he and others in his section of the NSA facility at Fort Gordon routinely shared salacious or tantalizing phone calls that had been intercepted, alerting office mates to certain time codes of “cuts” that were available on each operator’s computer.
“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.
Faulk said he joined in to listen, and talk about it during breaks in Back Hall’s “smoke pit,” but ended up feeling badly about his actions.
“I feel that it was something that the people should not have done. Including me,” he said.
Read the whole thing. The whistleblowers have pretty much told us what we knew already — that an Executive Branch with no checks is a rogue branch, doing what it wants no matter the law or basic decency. The NSA spokespeople obfuscate behind lots of vaguely patriotic puffery, and no one asks them about the offense to patriotism embodies in spying on Americans with no cause. Jay Rockefeller says he’ll get to the bottom of this, but since the Senator has been a major enabler of legislation to enable this bullshit I don’t have very high hopes.
Tags: Bush's FUBAR War
Yet another thing I can’t even fake shock over. Everyone knew this was going on… mostly because of human nature. Such patriots. (Gee, I hope while they were getting off on the sex talk they didn’t miss an important call.)
Look, I don’t really blame the guys manning the phone. I blame BushCo. Completely.
Have we been attacked? Case closed.
Typical republican response. We haven’t been attacked since 9/11 because the republicans are in charge, but the economy is the Dems’ fault. You want credit? Take all of it.
That Protack is a real patriot.
Protack.
We’re attacked every god damn day in Iraq and Afghanistan. Also a couple of weeks ago on US soil in Yemen.
Have they gotten bin Laden Yet?
No? Then this spying on Americans is a failure. Spending tax money to listen in on Americans arranging assignations with one another is beyond stupid.
But Mike is a repub and wasting tax dollars on this kind of a boondoggle is typical.
Case closed.
I demand prevailing wage charges reimbursed to the US by those involved parties who benefitted for personal enjoyment eavesdropping on said pillow talk/phone sex. This would include the offender’s wages, and the market wage to solicit such acts. We may finally see our back thru the financial fiasco. We have to start somewhere. Now case closed.