Constitutional Law

Former Military Specialists Describe U.S. Surveillance Of Americans

Two former military intercept operators tell ABC News that the federal government has eavesdropped on hundreds of calls made from Americans oversees to friends and relatives back home. The Bush administration, as ABC News notes, has repeatedly said its wiretapping surveillance program would not spy on Americans. Adrienne Kinne, a U.S. Army Reserves Arab linguist who worked at the National Security Agency Center in Georgia, told ABC News that calls of “ordinary Americans” have been intercepted. Kinne said the calls were “personal, private things with Americans who are not in any way, shape or form associated with anything to with terrorism.”

Full post as published by ACS Blog on October 09, 2008 (boomark / email).