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NSA employees spied on their lovers using eavesdropping programme

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The Telegraph; By Harriet Alexander 		Mail this story
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The employees even had a code name for the practice – "Love-int" – meaning the gathering of intelligence on their partners... Last week it was disclosed that the NSA had broken privacy rules on nearly 3,000 occasions over a one-year period.

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Comments (5)

BernardSwiss ·
It just keeps getting worse, and the denials of impropriety and claims of scrupulous oversight are getting ever more laughable.

If this was a television drama series, it would would have been dumped in less than a season, as it would have been just too implausible to sustain the audience's "suspension of disbelief". (That's no longer true, of course).

It might, however, have made for a great sit-com...

cr ·
It's reminding me of Harry Potter, except it's not just the Ministry for Terror, as both PM and POTUS are involved.
seatex ·
I wish I could find humor in this, but it's just offensive that my tax dollars are going to NSA voyeurs and internet service mega corps to "protect" me. Rrrrrrright....
kikinovak ·
It should become mandatory for every member of the US government to install a 24/7 webcam connected to a live Internet stream in their bathroom. So next time they take a dump or change a tampax, they learn the meaning of the word "Intimacy".

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