Are Your Naked Selfies Being Passed Around By The NSA?

Posted by | July 18, 2014 03:30 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Top Stories


In a new revelation, Edward Snowden is alleging that members of the spy agency routinely passed around naked photos that had been “intercepted.”

In an interview with The Guardian, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden revealed that government analysts would routinely pass around sexually explicit photos they st stumbled across.

In the course of the interview, building on the massive leak of NSA documents that he made public, Snowden made the startling claim that a culture exists within the NSA in which, during surveillance, nude photographs picked up of people in “sexually compromising” situations are routinely passed around:

Now in the course of their daily work, they stumble across something that is completely unrelated to their work in any sense. For example, an intimate nude photo of someone in a sexually compromising situation, but they’re extremely attractive.

So what do they do? They turn around and they show their coworker. And their coworker says ‘Oh hey, that’s great. Show it to Bill down the way.’ And then Bill sends it to George, George sends it to Tom, and sooner or later this person’s whole life has been seen by all of these other people.

The allegations are distinct, though not dissimilar, to something NSA official have already admitted is a problem: Analysts spying on their love interests. According to NSA officials such situations are relatively rare. But they are common enough to have a name: LOVEINT.

We think COITUSTELPRO has a better ring to it.

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30 responses to Are Your Naked Selfies Being Passed Around By The NSA?

  1. Obewon July 18th, 2014 at 03:45

    Russia’s Edward Snowden has a habit of exaggerating and making many unsubstantiated claims. NSA’s congressional oversight and audits every 6 months indicated about 300 instances of a very few Analysts spying on their ex’es and love interests. Such situations are relatively rare.

  2. Obewon July 18th, 2014 at 03:45

    Russia’s Edward Snowden has a habit of exaggerating and making many unsubstantiated claims. NSA’s congressional oversight and audits every 6 months indicated about 300 instances of a very few Analysts spying on their ex’es and love interests. Such situations are relatively rare.

  3. Anomaly 100 July 18th, 2014 at 07:28

    I wonder if Snowden started the #JadaPose hashtag.

    • R.J. Carter July 18th, 2014 at 09:34

      When I worked telemarketing as a college student, we would occasionally get the hilarious answering machine greeting. We’d pass those cards around so that others could call and hear it.

      • Anomaly 100 July 18th, 2014 at 09:42

        I made an answering machine message when I lived in Florida. One day I got home from work and there were tons of messages, more than normal. I started listening and it was people laughing. I got to one and he said, “Sorry, I was just passing this around at the office.”

        • R.J. Carter July 18th, 2014 at 09:45

          See? People being people. I can totally see humans at the NSA “admiring” a sexy pose. And I would bet, based on nothing more than knowledge of humans, that the sexy but “Oh god they really shouldn’t have” poses got passed around even more.

          • Anomaly 100 July 18th, 2014 at 09:53

            Oh those! Those were probably my naked pics. I get that reaction often, “She really shouldn’t have.”

      • William July 18th, 2014 at 09:51

        I had this one. The department secretary got it one day, was offended and I had another “talk” with the Chief.

        http://www.goofball.com/phone/shock_kitten_Voltage_Kitty_Answering_Machine_Message

  4. Anomaly 100 July 18th, 2014 at 07:28

    I wonder if Snowden started the #JadaPose hashtag.

    • R.J. Carter July 18th, 2014 at 09:34

      When I worked telemarketing as a college student, we would occasionally get the hilarious answering machine greeting. We’d pass those cards around so that others could call and hear it.

      • Anomaly 100 July 18th, 2014 at 09:42

        I made an answering machine message when I lived in Florida. One day I got home from work and there were tons of messages, more than normal. I started listening and it was people laughing. I got to one and he said, “Sorry, I was just passing this around at the office.”

        • R.J. Carter July 18th, 2014 at 09:45

          See? People being people. I can totally see humans at the NSA “admiring” a sexy pose. And I would bet, based on nothing more than knowledge of humans, that the sexy but “Oh god they really shouldn’t have” poses got passed around even more.

          • Anomaly 100 July 18th, 2014 at 09:53

            Oh those! Those were probably my naked pics. I get that reaction often, “She really shouldn’t have.”

      • William July 18th, 2014 at 09:51

        I had this one. The department secretary got it one day, was offended and I had another “talk” with the Chief.

        http://www.goofball.com/phone/shock_kitten_Voltage_Kitty_Answering_Machine_Message

  5. R.J. Carter July 18th, 2014 at 09:33

    Dear NSA. I am an IT professional with 25 years of experience. Please find enclosed my resume and three references. Sincerely.

    • talibandan2010 July 18th, 2014 at 09:48

      They won’t consider your resumé without at least one accompanying naked selfie!

      • mmaynard119 July 18th, 2014 at 21:31

        They really wouldn’t consider the selfie with any accompanying naked selfie of RJ.

  6. R.J. Carter July 18th, 2014 at 09:33

    Dear NSA. I am an IT professional with 25 years of experience. Please find enclosed my resume and three references. Sincerely.

    • talibandan2010 July 18th, 2014 at 09:48

      They won’t consider your resumé without at least one accompanying naked selfie!

      • mmaynard119 July 18th, 2014 at 21:31

        They really wouldn’t consider the selfie with any accompanying naked selfie of RJ.

  7. William July 18th, 2014 at 09:48

    IF I took naked selfies, and IF the NSA was passing them around, it could disable the entire agency.

  8. William July 18th, 2014 at 09:48

    IF I took naked selfies, and IF the NSA was passing them around, it could disable the entire agency.

  9. Shades July 18th, 2014 at 11:15

    Only to cure hiccups.

  10. Shades July 18th, 2014 at 11:15

    Only to cure hiccups.

  11. AnthonyLook July 18th, 2014 at 13:09

    As a teenager one of my first jobs was processing photo’s for photomat; it was happening even then.

  12. AnthonyLook July 18th, 2014 at 13:09

    As a teenager one of my first jobs was processing photo’s for photomat; it was happening even then.

  13. wasabibites January 18th, 2015 at 09:48

    malware is set up in cable box flats screen with all the latest spyware for NSA.Skype as well.

  14. Thevoice January 18th, 2015 at 10:48

    malware is set up in cable box flats screen with all the latest spyware for NSA.Skype as well. You pay for more than cable

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