Date: 2008-10-09 07:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dabhug.livejournal.com
That is the craziest motherfucking thing I've ever read. It makes me sad and angry and disappointed. How dare they?

Date: 2008-10-09 07:34 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] brewsternorth.livejournal.com
Ugh. That's the worst of surveillance - the openness to abuse and stupidity of that sort.

Meanwhile the UK info-state continues apace, according to Cory Doctorow: here.
Edited Date: 2008-10-09 07:34 pm (UTC)

Date: 2008-10-09 07:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] redstapler.livejournal.com
O_O

I can't decide if I want to forward that immediately to [livejournal.com profile] sinonmybody or keep that news from her for as long as possible. ;_;

(Yes, I know you're on her flist and she'll probably see it here.)

Date: 2008-10-09 07:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bodlon.livejournal.com
That's effing disgraceful.

(Also, did you catch the language in the article? "Not just that, but the clips are of private moments between troops and their wives and girlfriends." Presumably calls to boyfriends and husbands was safe?)

Date: 2008-10-09 07:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] affreca.livejournal.com
Argh! I want to see firings and loss of security clearances.

Date: 2008-10-09 11:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darthhellokitty.livejournal.com
That is severely fucked up.

This stuff always starts as Important National Security Stuff, and always ends as Poking Around People's Sex Lives.

Date: 2008-10-10 12:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stardragonca.livejournal.com
This was a satirical piece I co-wrote twenty four effing years ago. Because it was too outrageous to imagine actually happening.
Could the Bush administration's contempt for the troops be more palpable?

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