Edward Snowden just told [3] the Guardian:
Snowden …. Made a 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.
NSA employees have also been caught using [4] their mass surveillance powers to spy on love interests [5], such as girlfriends, obsessions or former wives [6] … and to eavesdrop on American soldiers’ intimate conversations with their wives [7] back home.
By way of background, US and UK intelligence services have gathered millions of webcam images … many nude [8]. The NSA collects and permanently retains many suggestive photographic images [9] gathered in other ways. And top experts say the NSA is collecting the CONTENT of all of our phone calls and emails [10].
So NSA employees have access to a lot of nude or suggestive videos, photos, phone calls and emails.
It’s not just NSA … many government agencies have become corrupted.
For example, an employee of the Transportation Security Administration admitted that TSA agents share – and laugh at – nude scans [11] of passengers.
And as we’ve previously documented [12]:
- Senior SEC employees spent up to 8 hours a day surfing porn sites instead of cracking down on financial crimes
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission workers watch porn instead of cracking down on unsafe conditions at nuclear plants
- Investigators from the Treasury’s Office of the Inspector General found that some of the regulator’s employees surfed erotic websites, hired prostitutes and accepted gifts from bank executives … instead of actually working to help the economy
- The Minerals Management Service – the regulator charged with overseeing BP and other oil companies to ensure that oil spills don’t occur – was riddled with “a culture of substance abuse and promiscuity”, which included “sex with industry contacts”