Operators: We listened to private calls

Published: Oct. 9, 2008 at 6:11 PM
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Two former military operators say that they listened to personal telephone calls made by members of the U.S. military and other citizens living overseas.

"These were just really everyday, average, ordinary Americans who happened to be in the Middle East, in our area of intercept and happened to be making these phone calls on satellite phones," Adrienne Kinne told ABC News.

Kinne, 31, is an Arab languages specialist in the Army Reserves. Between 2001 and 2003, she was assigned to a special military program at the NSA's Back Hall at Fort Gordon from November 2001 to 2003.

David Murfee Faulk, 39, formerly an Arab linguist with the Navy, said that between 2003 and 2007 he was part of an intercept program monitoring calls made from the Green Zone in Baghdad. Faulk said that operators shared salacious calls.

"Hey, check this out, there's good phone sex or there's some pillow talk, pull up this call, it's really funny, go check it out," Faulk described operators saying. "It would be some colonel making pillow talk and we

would say, 'Wow, this was crazy.'"


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