Terrorist surveillance; the slippery slope

[Kreskin]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Congress is looking into allegations that National Security Agency linguists have been eavesdropping on Americans abroad.

Government linguists say the U.S. eavesdropped on Americans, including military officers serving in Iraq.

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."

more... http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/09/spying.on.americans/index.html

 

[thomaska]

And just wait until the socialists are in power here..it should get even better....room 101, was it?

The Minitrue is coming.

 

[thomaska]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Congress is looking into allegations that National Security Agency linguists have been eavesdropping on Americans abroad.

Government linguists say the U.S. eavesdropped on Americans, including military officers serving in Iraq.

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."

more... http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/09/spying.on.americans/index.html

every call coming out of a combat zone, personal or not, is subject to monitoring.

Thats a fact.

In fact, If I call my wife from my government phone in my office in Philadelphia, to her Hotel in Philadelphia, its subject to monitoring. Every email I send to my wife or anyone else form a govt computer is subject. Everytime I log onto Canadian Content from work, ...monitored... This is silly.

This is a non issue.

 

[earth_as_one]

At one time the US had laws to prevent the government from spying on its citizens without a warrant from a judge. Under project echelon, Canada, the US, the UK, Australia and New Zealand all monitored the other nations citizens legally. If Canadian or the US intelligence services wanted to know something about one of their citizens "unofficially", they had to go through another country. That check prevented abuse. Now the US has cut out the third party, that check is gone. The potential for abuse is scary. A politician doesn't vote the way the President wants? Phone conversations with his mistress, the wife's anti-depressant prescription drug plan and his daughter's STD treaments can be "leaked" to the press.