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The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call In the Bahamas

Posted by samzenpus on from the listen-up dept.

Advocatus Diaboli (1627651) writes "The National Security Agency is secretly intercepting, recording, and archiving the audio of virtually every cell phone conversation on the island nation of the Bahamas. According to documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the surveillance is part of a top-secret system – code-named SOMALGET – that was implemented without the knowledge or consent of the Bahamian government. Instead, the agency appears to have used access legally obtained in cooperation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to open a backdoor to the country's cellular telephone network, enabling it to covertly record and store the 'full-take audio' of every mobile call made to, from and within the Bahamas – and to replay those calls for up to a month."

2 of 205 comments (clear)

  1. Re:the question is by Rich0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    .. what will the Bahama government/people do - will they sue the US for the presumable crime of breaking into their phone system?

    In what court would they do this? You can't sue the US government in a US court without the permission of the US government, and the US will just ignore the ruling of just about any other court.

    And yes, many (most?) other countries work the same way...

  2. Re:Legally speaking... by Charliemopps · · Score: 4, Informative

    Anyone at NSA who is participating in this is committing an act of war against a sovereign nation without any declaration of war.

    -jcr

    I'm not sure if you've noticed, but the united states does that like every other week. Noticed Ukraine lately? We started that. Everyone seems to forget there was a fucking US backed coup before Russia stepped in. It's not like they randomly decided to invade.