LOVEINT

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The term LOVEINT describes the practice that employees of a secret service use their extensive surveillance capabilities to spy on their loved ones or spouses. The designation was based on intelligence service terms such as SIGINT , COMINT or HUMINT .

National Security Agency

Although there have only been a handful of such cases at the NSA over the past decade, the term was coined there. In September 2013, following a request from US Senator Chuck Grassley , the NSA announced that there had been twelve cases since 2003 in which the life partners of secret service employees had been monitored by them.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrea Peterson: LOVEINT: When NSA officers use their spying power on love interests ( English ) In: The Washington Post . August 24, 2013. Archived from the original on August 31, 2013. Retrieved March 16, 2014.
  2. ^ Siobhan Gorman: NSA Officers Spy on Love Interests ( English ) In: The Wallstreet Journal - Washington Wire . August 23, 2013. Archived from the original on April 7, 2014. Retrieved March 16, 2014.
  3. ^ Zeit Online -Author rav: US Secret Service: NSA agents spied on their own lovers . In: Zeit Online . August 24, 2013. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved on March 16, 2014.
  4. ↑ Hannes Czerulla: NSA employees monitored lovers . In: Heise Online . August 25, 2013. Archived from the original on April 20, 2014. Retrieved March 16, 2014.
  5. ↑ Charles E. Grassley: Grassley Presses for Details about Intentional Abuse of NSA Authorities ( English ) In: Senator Chuck E. Grassley (R-Iowa) . August 27, 2013. Archived from the original on April 11, 2014. Retrieved on March 16, 2014.
  6. ^ Martin Holland: NSA affair: surveillance "to learn the national language" . In: Heise Online . September 27, 2013. Archived from the original on April 20, 2014. Retrieved March 16, 2014.
  7. ↑ George Ellard: Response from Inspector General, George Ellard, to intentional misuse of NSA authority ( English , PDF 1 MB) In: Senator Chuck E. Grassley (R-Iowa) . September 11, 2013. Archived from the original on March 16, 2014. Retrieved March 16, 2014.