Sleeper Cells

"The object of the Brotherhood is, briefly, the object of other political societies of the same sort -- the destruction of tyranny, and the assertion of the rights of the people ... the laws of the Brotherhood are the laws of no other political society on the face of the earth. The members are not known to one another. There is a President [in the home country] ... there are Presidents abroad. Each of these has a Secretary. The Presidents and the Secretaries know the members; but the members, among themselves, are all strangers, until their Chiefs see fit, in the political necessity of the time, or in the private necessity of the society, to make them known to each other. With such a safeguard as this .... We are told to go about our ordinary business, and to report ourselves to the President, or the Secretary, four times a year, in the event of our services being required. We are warned, if we betray the Brotherhood, or if we injure it by serving other interests, that we die by the principles of the Brotherhood -- die by the hand of a stranger who may be sent from the other end of the world to strike the blow -- or by the hand of our bosom-friend ... It is our first business to know how to wait -- our second business to know how to obey when the word is spoken. Some of us may wait our lives through, and may not be wanted. Some of us may be called to the work, or to the preparation for the work, the very day of our admission ... "

An NSA intercepted call from some 9/11 terrorist? A wiretapped conversation from a cell phone in Boston, September, 2001?

Nope. This is from The Woman in White! A novel written in 1859 by one of Charles Dickens' closest friends, Wilkie Collins.