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[HungLikeJesus]

Report: U.S. spied on Americans' intimate conversations abroad

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

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."

David Murfee Faulk, a former U.S. Navy Arab linguist, said in the news report that he and his colleagues were listening to the conversations of military officers in Iraq who were talking with their spouses or girlfriends in the United States.

According to Faulk, they would often share the contents of some of the more salacious calls stored on their computers, listening to what he called "phone sex" and "pillow talk."

Both Kinne and Faulk worked at the NSA listening facility at Fort Gordon, Georgia. They told ABC that when linguists complained to supervisors about eavesdropping on personal conversations, they were ordered to continue transcribing the calls.

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From here.

[Cicero]

Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

From here.

I didn't look, but I hope this article is dated at least prior to 2000.:p

This is how you rewrite history. Constantly say that it just happened and you are on top of it. ...I am tired of hearing this crap.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Cicero

I didn't look, but I hope this article is dated at least prior to 2000.:p

This is how you rewrite history. Constantly say that it just happened and you are on top of it. ...I am tired of hearing this crap.

Hell, all the blacks down in the South are trying to get rid of anything related to the Confederates, no difference. They are trying to re-write history as well. Look at the text books in school, dumbed down politically correct pieces of crap.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Hell, all the blacks down in the South are trying to get rid of anything related to the Confederates, no difference. They are trying to re-write history as well. Look at the text books in school, dumbed down politically correct pieces of crap.

All the blacks, eh?
I wish we had their unity and sense of purpose.

[Shawnee123]

Textbooks have almost always been a product of revisionism.

Remember the US history books in Jr Hi? The noble and patriotic white men saved us from the savage and evil native americans. Why, if we hadn't slaughtered them by the hundreds think what they would have done to our lifestyle, our country, our entire raison d'etre!

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Textbooks have almost always been a product of revisionism.

Remember the US history books in Jr Hi? The noble and patriotic white men saved us from the savage and evil native americans. Why, if we hadn't slaughtered them by the hundreds think what they would have done to our lifestyle, our country, our entire raison d'etre!

A perfect example of why we should not erase our history, good or bad.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Textbooks have almost always been a product of revisionism.

Remember the US history books in Jr Hi? The noble and patriotic white men saved us from the savage and evil native americans. Why, if we hadn't slaughtered them by the hundreds think what they would have done to our lifestyle, our country, our entire raison d'etre!

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

A perfect example of why we should not erase our history, good or bad.

Well said - by both of you.

[Cicero]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Hell, all the blacks down in the South are trying to get rid of anything related to the Confederates, no difference. They are trying to re-write history as well. Look at the text books in school, dumbed down politically correct pieces of crap.

Yes. Yes. and yes. I just don't think we need to replicate it on the cellar right?

Hey guys! I have been the hottest woman on the cellar since 1999!!!



Oh wait, when you rewrite history it has to be specious enough to sound almost true...

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Cicero

Yes. Yes. and yes. I just don't think we need to replicate it on the cellar right?

Hey guys! I have been the hottest woman on the cellar since 1999!!!



Oh wait, when you rewrite history it has to be specious enough to sound almost true...

You crack me up woman..

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Hell, all the blacks down in the South are trying to get rid of anything related to the Confederates, no difference. They are trying to re-write history as well. Look at the text books in school, dumbed down politically correct pieces of crap.

Which is why you shouldn't expect to have mastered history until you've studied it in more than just your HS textbooks.

History everywhere and everywhen has its array of warts, blemishes, and scars. Only mythology is smooth and altogether noble.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Which is why you shouldn't expect to have mastered history until you've studied it in more than just your HS textbooks.

History everywhere and everywhen has its array of warts, blemishes, and scars. Only mythology is smooth and altogether noble.

I get the distinct feeling that the general population of blacks and apologists in the South have a organized plan to erase that history. JMHO from what I have seen in my short time in the South.