OK, WHO WERE THE SHIFT SUPERVISORS?

You may recall that when Gen. Hayden was in charge of the NSA, he assured us that there would be no violations of the 4th Amendment because we could trust the shift supervisors. So, what accounts for these lapses?

U.S. tapped intimate calls from Americans overseas, 2 eavesdroppers say
They say government monitors transcribed and passed around embarrassing information for their own enjoyment.

By Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 10, 2008

WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence analysts eavesdropped on personal calls between Americans overseas and their families back home and monitored the communications of workers with the Red Cross and other humanitarian organizations, according to two military linguists involved in U.S. surveillance programs.

Reporter: NSA analysts spied on own wives and girlfriends
By David Edwards and Muriel Kane

Published: June 18, 2009
Updated 11 hour ago

Risen told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann the next day that he knew of no other cases like the Clinton incident but that many NSA analysts had been abusing their powers in other ways. “It sounded like, from the former NSA analyst that we interviewed, that it was rare to access the emails of celebrities or famous people,” Risen stated, “but that it was fairly routine, according to him, for people to access the emails of girlfriends or wives or other people that they might know.”