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Re:Calling the NSA: "I accidentally deleted an e-mail, can y... by httpagent on Saturday August 31, 2013 @07:31AM (#6306532)
I wondered the same thing - my conclusion is that it's an intimidation tactic.
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Re:Calling the NSA: "I accidentally deleted an e-mail, can y... by UVB-76 on Saturday August 31, 2013 @07:56AM (#6306589)
Alternatively, phone operators are instructed as a matter of course to record details about the phone calls they receive...
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Re:Calling the NSA: "I accidentally deleted an e-mail, can y... by officemonkey on Saturday August 31, 2013 @07:55AM (#6306586)
More likely the poor operator couldn't answer his question, so she was going to pass the details up to a supervisor and have the supervisor deal with it.

Later when the supervisor got on the phone, she just hung up on him.

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Re:Calling the NSA: "I accidentally deleted an e-mail, can y... by powertower on Saturday August 31, 2013 @10:31AM (#6306888)
You came to that conclusion because you knew that the operators don't ask contact info for every caller as standard procedure?
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