Wednesday, March 21, 2012
NSA General denies Big Brother set up
According to the military goon in charge, the NSA is not set up to spy on all American citizens.
Responding to the recent report by Wired author James Bamford, one of the leading journalists on NSA affairs, General Keith Alexander insisted that no matter what Bamford’s insider sources might claim, the NSA is not able to spy on the communications of American citizens.Just the Americans they want to follow. If you don't believe me, go ahead and send that tweet you were thinking about.
Published last week, Bamford’s story rips open alleged plans to build a data center in Utah equipped with the most advanced spy tech in history. His sources claimed it essentially represents the resurrection of the “Total Information Awareness” program that Congress killed in 2003.
The center will allegedly be capable of breaking almost any encryption, reading any email and recording any phone call anywhere in the world, even if it’s not made over the Internet. A network of ultra-sensitive satellites enhance the center’s intelligence-finding capabilities with the unique ability to sniff electronic communications from a massive distance.
More troubling still, Bamford’s three covert sources who worked for the NSA reportedly claim that the agency is dumping Americans’ communications into the mix, knowingly violating the U.S. Constitution in pursuit of a modern-day Manhattan Project. And it’s not just Bamford’s sources: prior reporting by MSNBC, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and other publications have carried similar claims by other insiders
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It's not the NSA, it s the FBI. So General Alexander is 100% correct. Of course, the FBI *is* using employees and technology on loan from the NSA to do this ;).
- Badtux the Snarky Intelligence Penguin
- Badtux the Snarky Intelligence Penguin
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