(Senate) Panel to Study Military Eavesdropping

[struggle4progress]

Source: NYT

By SCOTT SHANE
Published: October 9, 2008

WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, said Thursday that the committee would investigate claims by two military eavesdroppers that they routinely listened in on private calls home from American military officers, aid workers and journalists stationed in Iraq ...

Ms. Kinne and Mr. Faulk, both Arabic linguists, were based at Fort Gordon, Ga., where the N.S.A. has a large listening post focused on the Middle East. Ms. Kinne was there from 2001 to 2003 and Mr. Faulk was there from 2003 to 2007, Mr. Bamford said ...

Mr. Faulk told ABC that .... the eavesdroppers would swap recordings of intimate calls for entertainment ...

Mark Mansfield, a spokesman for Gen. Michael V. Hayden, who was director of the N.S.A. from 1999 to 2005 and is now director of the Central Intelligence Agency, said he had never approved illegal eavesdropping ...



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/washington/10nsa.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin

[Dr.Phool]

1. Oh, Jesus Fucking Christ! David Swanson reported this shit a year ago.

So did Amy Goodman.

Rockefeller finally decided to pull the dildo out of his ass and pay attention?

These guys are really ahead of the curve on this one.

[struggle4progress]

2. I'm quite sure thousands and thousands of others predicted it even earlier

:shrug: Politics has been like that as long as I can remember

[Ian David]

3. I THOUGHT this sounded familiar. Liberal media my ass, once again! n/t