Saturday, August 24, 2013

NSA Officers Spy on Their Love Interests

Build a spy network and it will be abused. First, they spied on their love interests.

WSJ reports:
National Security Agency officers on several occasions have channeled their agency’s enormous eavesdropping power to spy on love interests, U.S. officials said.

The practice isn’t frequent — one official estimated a handful of cases in the last decade — but it’s common enough to garner its own spycraft label: LOVEINT.

Spy agencies often refer to their various types of intelligence collection with the suffix of “INT,” such as “SIGINT” for collecting signals intelligence, or communications; and “HUMINT” for human intelligence, or spying.

The “LOVEINT” examples constitute most episodes of willful misconduct by NSA employees, officials said.

6 comments:

  1. I am sure this is never done to members or congress, the media, or a certain Supreme Court justice who changed his opinion of Obamacare after already writing the brief declaring it unconstitutional.

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  2. Bureaucrats will abuse power every single time. No exceptions.

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  3. up close and personal ,way too much.

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  4. I predicted this EXACT scenario years ago to the neocons who kept professing that you had no worries if you had nothing to hide.

    Quite a few years ago I knew this drop-dead gorgeous woman who used to brag about getting a cop to pull over and harass an ex-boyfriend of hers. I have no idea whether there was a "trade" for that service (it wouldn't surprise me), but both men and women will commit heinous acts where love (or sex) is concerned.

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  5. Anyone remember that movie "True Lies".

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  6. No link to the article?

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