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From Bruce Schenier's Crypto-Gram:
Remember when the U.S. government said it was only spying on terrorists? Anyone with any common sense knew it was lying -- power without oversight is always abused -- but even I didn't think it was this bad:
"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."
Warrants are a security device. They protect us against government abuse of power.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/washington/10nsa.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5987804&page=1
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/10/...9751223644874/
http://www.reuters.com/article/domes...4990CD20081010
"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."
Warrants are a security device. They protect us against government abuse of power.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/washington/10nsa.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5987804&page=1
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/10/...9751223644874/
http://www.reuters.com/article/domes...4990CD20081010
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