I personally would not call “phone sex” one of the most wholesome activities.
But, then again, “it’s a free country.” Or is it?
According to an ABC investigative report published today:
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.
The calls intercepted, and shared among intercept operators, included U.S. soldiers’ “Phone Sex,” according to the report which can be seen tonight on “World News Tonight with Charles Gibson” and “Nightline.”
These disturbing reports are being looked into. Again, according to the ABC report,
The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), called the allegations “extremely disturbing” and said the committee has begun its own examination.
“We have requested all relevant information from the Bush Administration,” Rockefeller said Thursday. “The Committee will take whatever action is necessary.”
Read more about just one more shenanigan possibly being committed in the name of the war on terror, in “Exclusive: Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans.”
The author is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and a writer.