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Comments on: Exclusive: Widespread cell phone location snooping by NSA?

It appears that the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping scandal spreads far beyond AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint.

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by Galaxy5 September 8, 2008 9:02 AM PDT
Congress will do nothing because the American people are content to sit back and let the press turn the Presidential race into a soap opera. They know they've got a captive audience.
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by jeepinls September 8, 2008 10:13 PM PDT
Although my day to day phone calls, trips to the grocer ect are no where near exciting enough to cause any agency to wish to track me... I find it absurd that an error in dialing (or answering) could cause me to land on a list of "questionable characters". I am amazed that the same government that takes weeks, even months to straighten out an IRS error (in their favor) can know within minutes of a call to my phone by master slasher miguel from BFE, even if it was a misdialed call. What happened to privacy? What if miguel was my illegitamate 1/2 brother, and he was calling to say HI, not to purchase a truck-load of dope or firearms? We are all on camera, at the store, in the streets, how long before that "private" web-chat with your husband working out of town is being watched by the local P.D.? Paranoia? Reality? Think about it!!
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by kimocrossman September 9, 2008 2:59 AM PDT
Have you seen the Bob Woodward stories from his new book about how 'Groundbreaking Covert Techniques" have significantly allowed the US to know every word the Prime Minister says and allows us to locate target and kill the bad guys.

It' certainly seems to be that they are doing this will cell phones.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090403160.html?hpid=topnews
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by TheOtherHawk September 9, 2008 5:25 AM PDT
Great article, keep up the good work!
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by colcol8 September 9, 2008 7:05 AM PDT
future headline? ," Mass suicide amongst security services" Yes, they have been listing in to my wife and daughter "talking on their phones" l defy them to endure more that 5 mins. !!
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by operator_z September 12, 2008 2:41 AM PDT
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by Looknofurther September 15, 2008 7:27 PM PDT
Why look outside the country, After experiencing the strangest set of events, I have been able that a predator stalker has been snooping in on my cell phone conversations. I have contacted law enforcement, countless Federal Agencies about it, but I guess they havent gotten around to investigated yet. I has happened over both CDMA and GSM technologies where the phones are turned into microphones. I understand fully well what I am saying, fully aware of the reprecutions of making false statements, but if anyone can point me into the right direction to jump start this investigation.
I could care less if the NSA wants to listenin to me. But I do care when a fixated stalker, obsessed with my X wife( Divorce ensued his initial acts, since we both thought the other person was playing a sick game)
I know who it is, I know where he lives, but until Justice arrives, I will have to endure having every protection and right granted to me by the constitution violated by a deranged being.
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