(Raw Story) Reporter: NSA analysts spied on own wives and girlfriends

[Fumesucker]

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/18/reporter-nsa-analysts-spied-on-own-wives-and-girlfriends/

By David Edwards and Muriel Kane

Published: June 18, 2009
Updated 1 day ago

According to the reporter who first broke the NSA wiretapping story, there is no proof the agency has scaled back its interception of the personal phone calls and email messages of American citizens as promised by the Obama administration or even that it is being straight with Congress about its activities.

James Risen and Eric Lichtblau revealed the NSA’s over-collection of data in an article for the New York Times on Tuesday, noting that one NSA analyst was even found to have been reading the private email of former President Bill Clinton.

Risen told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann the next day that he knew of no other cases like the Clinton incident but that many NSA analysts had been abusing their powers in other ways. “It sounded like, from the former NSA analyst that we interviewed, that it was rare to access the emails of celebrities or famous people,” Risen stated, “but that it was fairly routine, according to him, for people to access the emails of girlfriends or wives or other people that they might know.”

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More at the link..

[SpiralHawk]

1. Is it fascism yet?

Or is this just a limited hangout personal fascism?

[Nickster]

2. So let me get this straight, when you have unchecked power, no rules, no oversight, you get people

that abuse that power?? Well, color me shocked.

[EFerrari]

3. Not our "dedicated men and women".

Tell me this is a lie. :sarcasm:

[Captain Hilts]

5. Guess it's only men. nt

[corpseratemedia]

4. ok how many secret governments do we have now?

can't keep up

[Fumesucker]

7. It would take a whole case of Alphabits to even list the acronyms.. n/t

[dem mba]

6. of course they did

because they're weak and flawed human beings given way too much power and access. this kind of abuse should shock no one. it was to be expected from day one.

[northofdenali]

8. Well, duh.

With that ability, what "good ole boys" wouldn't?

FUCK REPUBLICANS AND ANYONE ELSE WHO GOES ALONG WITH SPYING ON U.S. CITIZENS BY OUR OWN GOVERNMENT.

[MinM]

9. So when they were not gathering blackmail material .. err opposition

research on political enemies. They were digging up dirt on their 'loved ones'.

All in the name of making US safer. :sarcasm:

[kenny blankenship]

10. No one could have foreseen that limitless surveillance powers would be abused!