Exclusive: Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans [2008]

ABC News ^ | Oct. 9, 2008 | BRIAN ROSS

[BarnacleCenturion]

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.

[MestaMachine]

There is nothing the powerful do that the majority of the powerless wouldn't if they could. Give the less powerful even an iota and they will abuse it. It's the nature of the beast.

[penelopesire]

Interesting though that none of the details of the salacious pillow talk, etc. became public until Obama and his thugs moved into 1600 Penn. Avenue....then the Petraues affair and others came spilling into the public domain.

None of it is good, but at least Bush was actually looking for terrorists and enemy moles......now Obama uses the technology for blackmail and extortion leverage on his political opponents.

[Graewoulf]

BUMP.

[KeyLargo]

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[hoosiermama]

It would only take one minion placed in a position similar to Snowden to take all power away from those in authority and give it to won.

[PghBaldy]

You are right.

[Whenifhow]

IF this program is so successful at stopping terrorism, can anyone explain to me how 2 Chechen brothers used cell phones-—called back & forth to their family in Russia—and managed to not get stopped in advance of their attack on the Boston Marathon?
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Allen West on Greta last night points out all the terrorists that the NSA has NOT caught.

Losing Faith In The Feds - Obama Admin Scandals Erode Americans’ Trust In Government - On The Record

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BYzaRlfeBg

[GOPJ]

Ummm, that’s why we have laws.

Laws don’t exist to protect the ‘powerful & corrupt’ - those people can take care of themselves. And yes, once people move into the class of ‘powerful and corrupt’ we need to create laws around them to keep them from abusing power.

It’s how civilized societies work.

[American Constitutionalist]

If I was not mistaken but this a lot like the NBC TV series Revolution where the DoD develops these nano sized machines to shut down all electrical systems world wide.

[RedMDer]

This is disturbing but not suprising. I wonder what happened to the whistle blowers.

[American Constitutionalist]

Yeah, how about that, amazing how with all these resources and with the Russians telling them about those 2 still ? they could not stop them.
Glenn Beck on his show was just talking about this and he said that they are lying to us, this system was built to be used against us.

[thouworm]

Did you see post 27?

One minute video of LeBeouf’s story at the link

[hoosiermama]

Don’t know. One retired. Maybe moved out of country and is posting on FR. ;-)

[thouworm]

“We are going to have a lot more significant revelations that have not yet been heard over the next several weeks and months,” said Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian.

http://news.yahoo.com/journalist-us-surveillance-case-more-come-050921834.html

[Rusty0604]

This is from 2008, under Bush.

[hoosiermama]

Soooo do we expect to hear phone calls or read “private” emails? Hope not. Up to this point he has not disclosed any new material. What can he really be charged with?
If he releases private material it could be a felony
Unless it is exposing government fraud or other crimes he could be in big trouble !

[reformedliberal]

Just make sure you are out of line of sight of a surveillance camera, especially one of the new ones that capture audio. If there is an ATM or bank or USPS across the street, they could capture something from that.

I suppose small villages are still relatively private places. What about drone surveillance, though?

We don’t have a smart phone or a new TV w/a camera and we store all RFID cards in foil lined envelopes and don’t take them out in public. Tape is over the computer camera.

We have nothing to hide, that we know of. But we are pretty sure our closest friends, both former Special Forces, are on the *list*, so we assume we are caught up in their surveillance.

OTOH, I post here. DH posts on some other forums, one under his real name. He is on several professional LinkedIn lists under his real ID.

SIGH.

[thouworm]

It may depend on what the agreement was between Greenwald and Snowden.

“There are dozens of stories generated by the documents he provided, and we intend to pursue every last one of them,” Greenwald said.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3029914/posts

I’m still wondering why Snowden chose Hong Kong. Also, I noticed it was the one place he faltered in his interview.

[PowderMonkey]

Look at it this way: with everybody under surveillance, everybody is a criminal with something to hide. Embrace your new found status as an enemy of the state.

"Strike a blow for Liberty!" - Harry S. Truman

[reformedliberal]

Agree.

Back in my unreformed days,the Milwaukee PD had a *Red Squad* devoted to tracking the social circles of people who were politically dissident. I was an art major. Most of my friends were art or theater majors. I worked at a co-op. Etc, etc. We assumed we were routinely surveilled, phones tapped, whatever.

That was over 50 years ago. Today, my beliefs and friends are 180 degrees from what they were then and I still find myself in the enemy camp.