Just as we know that efforts to fight terrorism also expose communications between international offices of law firms and banks to the eyes and ears of the U.S. federal government, we also know that the extensive, warrant-less wire-tapping privileges that the U.S. currently (and extra-legally) enjoys have the potential to make any of our private international conversations not private. Now two former feds have come forward to say that, from Baghdad, "U.S. military officers, American journalists, and American aid workers were routinely intercepted and 'collected on' as they called their offices or homes in the United States." Including, of course, when they were having terrorist phone sex!

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