The NSA is listening...

[wrenb]

"The NSA has threatened me..." and the phone line goes dead.

You can't make this stuff up!  I was listening with just one ear to Kathleen Dunn on Wisconsin Public Radio and she's interviewing James Bramford who writes books about the NSA. She managed to get the guest back and he was able to finish the sentence "threatened me with prosecution after the publication of my first book". But in the meantime I was laughing hysterically.

After ten, Kathleen Dunn talks with the foremost expert on the National Security Agency, on how the agency grapples with shadowy new enemies in the war in terror, and in so doing, has turned its high-tech gaze inside American borders. Guest: James Bramford, visiting professor, University of California-Berkeley. Author, "The Shadow Factory: The Uktra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America" (Doubleday)

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[ukelele.livejournal.com]

I used to volunteer answering phones for the ACLU. You would not believe.