Diane Roark warned that the U.S. was eavesdropping on its own citizens. Then it turned on her.

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http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19632-who%E2%80%99s_listening_to_diane_roark.html

September 5th, 2012 AARON MESH | News Stories

Who’s Listening to Diane Roark?

An Oregon woman warned that the U.S. government was eavesdropping on its own citizens. Then it turned on her.

SPOOKED: Diane Roark says she no longer feels secure in her home. “Every time at night when I go around and lock the doors, I think, ‘Well, if they want to get in…’” - IMAGE: Tom Patterson

Warrantless wiretapping may have faded from the headlines with George W. Bush, but one Oregonian is determined to focus attention on the federal government’s spying on its own citizens.

Diane Roark, 63, is an unlikely activist. More comfortable with Dick Cheney than Noam Chomsky, the Stayton mother of two spent over 20 years inside Washington, D.C.’s, intelligence bureaucracy—not exactly an anarchist breeding ground.

But since the summer day five years ago when a dozen FBI agents banged on her front door, Roark has been a different person.

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She says she went to her congressional leaders and the NSA’s director, Gen. Michael Hayden, and asked why the protections against warrantless domestic wiretapping had been abandoned.

“We had the power,” Roark recalls Hayden saying. “We didn’t need them.”

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Just came across this on a climate blog http://climatechangepsychology.blogspot.com/2013/10/whos-listening-to-diane-roark.html

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2. Rally Against Mass Surveillance Saturday Oct 26

It's not over. Take part if you are in or near DC .

https://rally.stopwatching.us/

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3. "Because we can."

And they have the fucking chutzpah to whine at us about ethics and morality and duty and all that "you guys do as you are told" blather.

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4. ^

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5. Recommend

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6. Motto of the Bully

"Because I can."