Report: U.S. spied on Americans' intimate conversations abroad

I would tell the them what my wife and i did last night, but i guess you already know. That why i randomly say true(bad) things about Government in hopes that someone would get mad enough to pick up

I agree its no ones fault but our own.

Its a lot like a frightening book I recently read, a sequel to 1984 that takes place just six years from now, called America 2014: An Orwellian Tale. Check out Bush1984.com to see what that author thinks will happen to the Bill of Rights if the "faith-based" reality that McSame, Palin, Bush and Cheney becomes America's future.
Its really witty and an interesting read. These little observatory exercises seem like they're just test runs for the future laid out in this book. This little pod seems to echo that scary future, lets not let it happen.

No Freedom just Free Doom.

It's almost sexist (?) in a way to assume all military are men (calling wives, girlfriends) or heterosexual. Women may have called husbands or girlfriends and men may have called boyfriends.

regardless, it's all a shame.

You're right J_Jammer. It's not the fault of either party

It is the American people's fault. WE are allowing and approving of their actions by voting for them.

We sit back and vote for the choices they give us...Dem or GOP, Left or Right...whatever. All of them the same shit with a different name.

It is time to clean house...or should I say, clean House and Senate.

Vote for all non-incumbents this year...and at the end of their term, if they do the same old thing, vote for somebody else.

We can make them change. We just have to use our power to do so.

Clean the slate. Pass it on.

It's not republican's fault or democrat's fault.

It's government and that's EVERYONE's fault...not a specific group. They cannot really do much without the other party helping.

Helping either means voting with them or not stopping them.

It's not I think this is right, it's that I highly doubt that NOW is the first time they've done this...I think this has been the case the moment the phone became useful.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin, 1759

Ol' Ben would be churning in his grave if he could see what our country has become. A government based on bribery, corruption and unconstitutional breaches of freedom. A government that preys on her citizens' fears in order to maintain control.

How long will the American people sit back and allow their elected representatives to routinely subvert our most precious national truths in the name of protection.

Live free or die.

You can send a young person over there to die for your precious oil interests, but you can't trust him enough to let him tell his wife that he loves her in private? The double standards abound.

Move along, nothing to see here? Mainstream media will not cover this more than one news cycle, while covering minor issues every news cycle. Makes ya wonder why? Have they been spied on too?

Way to "support the troops"! Yes, they were "listening" and then they were passing around the "good ones" of soldiers talking intimately with their wives, so they could get a good laugh. Isnt it bad enough that they are giving up the right to be there when their babies are born or when their loved ones die? Now they have to give up the right to have a private conversation with the people they love too? Or be laughed at for missing someone they love so much and havent seen in over a year? I have two sons that are fighting for you and you wont even return the favor? You wont even fight for their right to talk to their loved ones?

Soooo. So what? They did not HEAR the conversations, they tracked them as they pretty much do already with everything.

What is it so much that you want to talk about that you want to Hide!?

Some of us said this was exactly what would happen, but our voices were drowned out by the "patriotic" screams of bloodlust at the time.

Privacy and security are illusions.

Is nothing sacred anymore?
is there no such thing as privacy?
How is it fair that the men and women "defending our rights" have no rights of their own?

why are we surprised? i'm not against protecting the country...but do we need protection from ourselves?

Who cares? We listen here and there. If we hear something important we act on it. Everything else is menusha.

"home of the free"?

"Our government has lost it way"
Yea... long time ago...

Thanks for the people that came forward to tell us what the hell is going. And you know they are listening to our congressman, and senators as well as pre-judged trouble makers. Us all probably. What friggin Nazi's...........Freedom!