BY Monica Shores
October 20, 2008
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This past week, ABC reported that our government, in its noble quest to fight terror, has done a lot of listening in on private phone calls. Shockingly, while this effort didn’t manage to catch many (read: any) evil plots, it was an overwhelming success when it came to picking up phone sex. According to whistle blower testimony, employees regularly invited fellow professional eavesdroppers to listen in when talk turned dirty, and the most interesting conversations were saved so that they could be, in the words of constitutional law professor Jonathon Turley, “passed around like some type of fraternity game.”

I can’t deny that it would be fun to listen to sexy phone calls, but if these operators were so hard up, they should have just gone the honest route and paid for it. Or found a free partner on Craigslist like the rest of us do.

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