Two Arab linguists, both of whom previously worked as U.S. military intercept officers, have claimed to have been tasked by the NSA with listening in to phone calls made by Americans - including military officers and journalists - who were stationed overseas. Both Adrienne Kinne, who worked for the U.S. Army Reserves, and David Faulk of the U.S. Navy, have said that they eavesdropped on calls between Americans, many of which did not concern any potential threats to America's national security. Congress has begun an investigation into the claims.1
Faulk and Kinne have described their alleged experiences spying on Americans to ABC News. Among the more outrageous revelations are that, in the Ford Gordon facility, choice segments of personal phone calls - particularly anything salacious, such as phone sex - were saved and passed around the workplace for entertainment. Kinne acknowledges that it was well-known that the conversations being monitored were conducted between American citizens - often volunteers from organizations like the International Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders - and that these digressions may have distracted the group from finding genuinely useful information. She concedes, however, that some of the intercepts did provide useful information that could aid troops in the field, such as the locations of IED's.3
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