The Government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them. - Mark Twain

“We Gotta Get Us Some More Terrists” II

by West Virginia Rebel

Remember the movie “The President’s Analyst” where the phone company secretly ran everything? Well, the government has done them one better over the years.

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.”

She said US military officers, American journalists and American aid workers were routinely intercepted and “collected on” as they called their offices or homes in the United States.

For those of you who wondered in the comments to the previous post with this title as to what local cops putting nonviolent antiwar protesters on a terrorist watch list had to do with the Bush administration, there you go. It represents a pattern of behavior on the part of those in authority that has become acceptable in this country. That’s the problem.

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