According to a report today from the Daily Caller, two former NSA workers at a facility in Fort Gordon, Georgia claim that they were required to listen in on the phone calls made by Americans living and working abroad, including those serving in the military, many of which were very personal in nature. One whistle blower claimed he was told that "your job is not to question" when he expressed concern about listening in on the private phone calls. The NSA told the New York Times in 2008 that some of the allegations of the whistle blowers were unsubstantiated, while others were still under investigation.
One of the most prominent Americans who became a target of a criminal investigation as a result of the Patriot Act was former New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer, whose cash transfers to an offshore account drew scrutiny under Suspicious Activity Reports banks are required to file with the Department of Treasury. Officials claimed they began investigating the multi-millionaire Spitzer because of concern he was being bribed. In actuality, he was making payments for prostitution services.
“We had no interest at all in the prostitution ring until the thing with Spitzer led us to learn about it,” a Department of Justice official told ABC News. “[T]he governor called attention to himself by asking the bank to transfer money in someone else’s name,” Hosenball concluded in Newsweek.” The SAR was not itself evidence that Spitzer had committed a crime. But it made the feds curious enough to follow the money.”
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