When someone tells you Big Brother might be listening to you over your Bluetooth or your gaming console, it just might be true…

Times Square attempted bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad was picked up at JFK International Airport very soon after his SUV filled explosives was found.  How did authorities scramble so quickly to find him?

Rumor has it that a secret Army intelligence plane found him and listened in as he placed calls with his anonymous, prepaid cell phone.

WCBS’ website reported: “In the end, it was secret Army intelligence planes that did him in. Armed with his cell phone number, they circled the skies over the New York area, intercepting a call to Emirates Airlines reservations, before scrambling to catch him at John F. Kennedy International Airport.”

This paragraph was deleted very soon after it was published online.

According to WIRED’s Danger Room, Jeremy Scahill, relying on a source in U.S. Special Operations, says those planes were likely RC-12s, equipped with a Guardrail Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) system. The planes are designed to pluck all kinds of communications from the air. “It sucks up everything. We’ve got these things in Jalalabad [Afghanistan]. We routinely fly these things over Khandahar. When I say everything, I mean BlueTooth would be effected, even the wave length that PlayStation controllers are on. They suck up everything. That’s the point,” Scahill’s source tells him.

Northrup Grumman contracted in 2007 for up to $462 million to upgrade the spy planes, which are serviced less than a hundred miles from New York.