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NSA routinely spied on calls by Americans back to U.S.

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

The National Security Agency routinely spied on soldiers', aid workers', and journalists' intimate calls back home while they were in Iraq.See NYTimes, Washington Post, and LATimes. From WaPo: The allegations, by two former military intercept officers assigned to the National Security Agency, include claims that U.S. spies routinely listened in on intimate conversations and sometimes shared the recordings with each other. At least some of the snooping was done under relaxed eavesdropping rules approved by the Bush administration to facilitate spying on terrorists. And nobody thought that this would not happen if the NSA were allowed to spy on American's telephone calls? When I was in West Africa in trial, I just assumed I was being listened to when I called home...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on October 10, 2008 (boomark / email).