Fri 10 Oct 2008
Major shock: Eavesdropping powers abused without oversight
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Glenn Greenwald Salon 10/09/08
In the most unsurprising revelation imaginable, two former Army Reserve Arab linguists for the National Security Agency have said that they routinely eavesdropped on – “and recorded and transcribed” – the private telephone calls of American citizens who had absolutely nothing to do with terrorism. (more…)