The Wall Street Journal reports: National Security Agency officers on several occasions have channeled their agency’s enormous eavesdropping power to spy on love interests, U.S. officials said.
The practice isn’t frequent — one official estimated a handful of cases in the last decade — but it’s common enough to garner its own spycraft label: LOVEINT.
Spy agencies often refer to their various types of intelligence collection with the suffix of “INT,” such as “SIGINT” for collecting signals intelligence, or communications; and “HUMINT” for human intelligence, or spying.
The “LOVEINT” examples constitute most episodes of willful misconduct by NSA employees, officials said.
Waiting for aknowledgement of BLACKMAILINT especially in regard to politicians, billionaires, etc., world-wide. Great way for USA (as J Edgar Hoover used to do over at FBI) to control the world. But when used personally by NSAteers, a bit more like UN-LOVEINT.
When Military officers/generals get to run this operation as is the case today, it’s inevitable that it turns out to be-I know, I over use the word/phrase-“clusterfuck”. They’re good at blindsiding themselves due to denial or some such. Of course, what do I know, i,m just a lowly grunt in the game here?