How the United States spies on us all

[C. Petersen]

> Hey, when you're the NSA, you don't have to sub to a list to read its
> traffic. And this message isn't even about terrorism.
> 
> Years ago, a friend of a friend of mine who made a film about surveillance
> for HBO told me that the NSA's computers are programmed to tap any phone
> conversation containing the word "Israel." I bet they do the same for
> emails containing the word Saddam now too. Wonder how many spelling
> variants of the Libyan leader's name they recognize?
> 

But where do they have huge rooms of people sitting around listening to
conversations and reading people's boring email in search of anything
useful. In East Germany, there was a whole large employment category of
workers whose job was to guard or spy on other people - does the NSA and
FBI etc. have thousands of employees?