Saturday, August 24, 2013

Using The NSA To Spy On Your 'Love Interests'

An undated aerial handout photo shows the National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters building in Fort Meade, Md.. Reuters

NSA Officers Sometimes Spy On Love Interests -- Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON—National Security Agency officers on several occasions have channeled their agency’s enormous eavesdropping power to spy on love interests, U.S. officials said.

The practice isn’t frequent — one official estimated a handful of cases in the last decade — but it’s common enough to garner its own spycraft label: LOVEINT.

Spy agencies often refer to their various types of intelligence collection with the suffix of “INT,” such as “SIGINT” for collecting signals intelligence, or communications; and “HUMINT” for human intelligence, or spying.

The “LOVEINT” examples constitute most episodes of willful misconduct by NSA employees, officials said.

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My Comment: NSA officials "sometimes" spy on their love interests ?!?!?! .... I suspect that such behavior happens more than what they are admitting.

1 comment:

James said...

You'd better believe it!