When I heard this story yesterday on another news channel I
didn't want to believe it, then here it is again on CNN too. I was
so afraid when the Patriot Act was passed again and then the FISA
Amendment Act of 2008 signed into law this is right where we would
go, I would rather have been wrong.
Both Presidential candidates gave their approval to these
laws, laws that are now impacting our soldiers and other citizens
who have absolutely nothing to do with terrorism.
I remember being upset about these and people calling me a
paranoid idiot, "what is the problem if you aren't doing anything
wrong?" they asked? Well this is exactly what I described, it is
happening and unfortunately I was right. I am wishing I was just
being a paranoid idiot.
Here is part of the story from CNN, write your law makers and
your candidates, let them know this is monstrously unacceptable:
"The allegations were made by two former military intercept
operators on a television news report Thursday evening.
A terrorist surveillance program instituted by the Bush
administration allows the intelligence community to monitor phone
calls between the
United States and overseas without a court order -- as long
as one party to the call is a terror suspect.
Adrienne Kinne, a former U.S. Army Reserves Arab linguist,
told ABC News the
NSA was listening to the phone calls of
U.S. military officers, journalists and aid workers overseas who
were talking about "personal, private
things with Americans who are not in any way, shape or form
associated with anything to do with terrorism."
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