Dial 1-900-TALK-TO-MY-BUSHIn a development that absolutely no one could have anticipated (sigh), it seems that the seemingly foolproof plan of giving Bush administration toadies access to your phone calls might not have worked out as planned:
Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on as they called friends and family back home, according to two former military intercept operators who worked at the giant National Security Agency (NSA) center in Fort Gordon, Georgia.
"These were just really everyday, average, ordinary Americans who happened to be in the Middle East, in our area of intercept and happened to be making these phone calls on satellite phones," said Adrienne Kinne, a 31-year old US Army Reserves Arab linguist assigned to a special military program at the NSA's Back Hall at Fort Gordon from November 2001 to 2003. Kinne described the contents of the calls as "personal, private things with Americans who are not in any way, shape or form associated with anything to do with terrorism."
Jeepers! Guess that's the "constant check to make sure that our civil liberties of our citizens are treated with respect" bullshit that Our Dear Glorious Leader was babbling about for the past five years.
Shame on all you Democratic House and Senate members that voted to give this buffoon and his criminal lackeys free rein to listen in on private conversations.....rubbing their thighs all the way, I imagine.
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