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U.S. spied on Americans' intimate PHONECALLS abroad
by SOLARLIFE | October 10, 2008 at 01:11 am | 285 views | 31 comments | 30 recommendations
My phone under control of someone else
Controlling every phone call, not knowing that the own country runs into bancruptcy, is Tragedy. Thats how the East german security service died. They controlled everything, the Berlin wall fall down. Their country did not exist anymore. If you spy to much you don't make business.
Privacy act
Only a new privacy act can re-establish confidence
The congressional oversight committees said Thursday that the Americans targeted included military officers in Iraq who called friends and family in the United States.
The allegations were made by two former military intercept operators on a television news report Thursday evening.
A terrorist surveillance program instituted by the Bush administration allows the intelligence community to monitor phone calls between the United States and overseas without a court order -- as long as one party to the call is a terror suspect.
Adrienne Kinne, a former U.S. Army Reserves Arab linguist, told ABC News the NSA was listening to the phone calls of U.S. military officers, journalists and aid workers overseas who were talking about "personal, private things with Americans who are not in any way, shape or form associated with anything to do with terrorism."
October 10, 2008 at 01:11 am by SOLARLIFE, 285 views, 31 comments
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at 03:32 on October 10th, 2008
SOLARLIFE, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Over a year ago, I expressed my concern for these very abuses in my article, What About My Right to Privacy?
at 10:08 on October 10th, 2008
Karen Hatter, you are the cool girl thinking ahead of time: "What About My right to Privacy?" Not many wanted to believe what will happen. It is time to say no. America recover to a free country, risk was always here, Americans know to live with it. But nobody has the right because he made $hit, to project his fear on any Good fellow American and investigating him, until an unpaid credit card will make him a suspect of having no money, a so called government enemy.
at 03:53 on October 10th, 2008
SOLARLIFE, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 10:02 on October 10th, 2008
francisrivera thanks for Flag 'NSA monitoring private US citizen phone calls"
at 03:57 on October 10th, 2008
SOLARLIFE, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 10:00 on October 10th, 2008
Rhonda thanks for Flag "NSA spys surveillence of US private phonecalls"
at 15:13 on October 10th, 2008
You are very welcome, SOLARLIFE.
at 05:41 on October 10th, 2008
SOLARLIFE, I like this story. It's good stuff. I will control my silly tongue over the phone now!
at 07:18 on October 10th, 2008
rahul...I will control my silly tongue over the phone now!.. well done rahul, I should alos keep my mouth under control. At the end who should listen to all that phonecalls, impossible ?
at 07:54 on October 10th, 2008
I will make no effort to control what I say on the phone, as I say nothing illegal. That I may say things they don't like or don't agree with is too bad for them.
I am perfectly happy to help them waste their time and your tax dollars every chance possible! Heck I just leave the phone off the hook for fun sometimes. (:D) Imagine what the fools make up about that?
Should anything ever happen to me because of any political statements I make on the phone, "they" will have bitten off more than they would care to chew!
Give me a higher profile soapbox, bring it!
at 09:43 on October 10th, 2008
moonwolf...as I say nothing illegal; that makes you suspicious, you run under surveillance of a sleeper.. No but serious if You are GI in the field for month, you call your wife or girl friend, who has the right to listen to your love stories . The NSA should pay by the minute.
at 08:33 on October 10th, 2008
SOLARLIFE, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Always start your conversations with others by using... a key word, such as "terror", "bomb" "kill Bush"... and you will be assured the NSA monitored program -- "Carnivore" -- will be tripped into recording your conversations. Don’t often agree with you Moon, but I do (and have been) howlin’ about this invasion of my privacy for years now and will continue, until, they pry my “cold-dead-fingers” from weapons in both hands, which of course have been emptied.
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at 09:36 on October 10th, 2008
Bally,
I hear ya!
at 09:46 on October 10th, 2008
BallyZACA...NSA program Carnivore; what happens if you say today, I have money, ...they follow you, ask you for presidency
at 09:30 on October 10th, 2008
Not a big deal if your not talking about any thing illegal.
SOLARLIFE, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 09:39 on October 10th, 2008
Fourbyfour,
Wrong. It depends on what they make up about what your saying, how paranoid the listeners are, and what the political agenda of the government of the day is and whether throwing you too the dogs would be advantageous.
at 09:47 on October 10th, 2008
I'm sure Ted Stevens used to think the same thing.
at 09:58 on October 10th, 2008
dunkelberg, Ted Stevens, you are referring to Net neutrality or what do you mean with same thing?
at 11:59 on October 10th, 2008
I am referring to Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) - he who delivereth the millions of dollars in earmarks to Sarah Palin and her Alaskan cronies. He is on trial for corruption and a highlight of the trial is the tape recordings of his conversations (ironically, in one he says they may be tape recording him).
at 09:54 on October 10th, 2008
fourbyfourblazer, ...if you not talk anything illegal. What is really behind this, has a name "Industrial espionage" the NSA and CIA are spying on all European tech companies to catch the orders, french politicians are obliged to use special phones to avoid insider information to this services. To spy on top on private American conversation is perverted. The guys who have done this in Eastgermany during comunism have been brought to justice into prison where they belong. So citizens make your homework before it is too late.
at 06:49 on October 11th, 2008
fourbyfourblazer
Not a big deal? So, I guess you would have no problems if Obama were given authority over the NSA?
at 10:45 on October 10th, 2008
Obviously the NSA is online now, I have amazing 864 comments on this article in my message box, can not delete them anymore, the people who wrote comments don't show up here. My Antivirus program just removed a keypad reader trojan . What a world. Happened last time during $700 bn bailout. Correction now 1268 internal messages.
at 11:29 on October 10th, 2008
We are currently having an issue with our anon comments function, so that is why you are getting messages about comments, but not seeing any. We are working on it right now and will hopefully have it back to normal really soon.
Sorry for the confusion.
at 11:33 on October 10th, 2008
amyjudd, thanks I feel not alone now and will stop writing bad things. Good luck for repair
at 11:42 on October 10th, 2008
It's not bad - just wanted to let you know. :)
at 14:23 on October 10th, 2008
Nah, they are there only when you detect nothing. If you detect something it is not them.
at 15:09 on October 10th, 2008
Fairbanks, Well the comments have been all empty, as you say nothing to detect. It is all about survival
at 13:33 on October 10th, 2008
So for all writers commenting, showing not up here I will answer later, take my excuses I did not expect such a reaction: Not displayed thanks however: worldwrite, cossy82, politisite, DrChewbacca and others. No mercy with Anonymous sending 1200 messages to shut down this article.
at 00:09 on October 11th, 2008
Anonymous filled up comment section with 450 empty comments. Well you could have been writing one and explain why you fear so much real comments. Thanks to patgarcia, badrnaseem, mchawk, thonda, jarett and others..The comments did not display. What an Event. Finally all the nice Home security programs, that did not work, are now applied against the rest who have still a home.
at 19:03 on October 11th, 2008