The NSA admitted in Congressional testimony this week that they were deliberately “collect[ing] data about ordinary Americans’ cellphone locations,” in a test program that lasted from 2010 to 2011.
Collecting data about the cellphone locations of ordinary Americans. The NSA targeted ordinary Americans. This is quite a departure from what the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has repeatedly insisted, that data about ordinary Americans may get inadvertently swept up in the process of targeting terrorists or foreigners.
In an interview after his testimony, NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander told the Washington Post that they discontinued the program because “we couldn’t find…operational value out of it.”
Did you get that? They didn’t shut down the program because it, say, violated the privacy rights of American citizens. They didn’t do it out of conscience. No, they shut it down because it wasn’t as useful as they thought it would be.
But Alexander wants you to know, as he said in testimony, “This may be something that may be a future requirement for the country, but it is not right now…”
Well, I feel better.
After all that has been revealed since Edward Snowden’s heroic leaks, Americans have little reason to be surprised about each new NSA revelation, no matter how much more egregious it makes the previous one seem. But this confession comes just days after another NSA program, also begun in 2010, was revealed. In this program, which is still ongoing, the NSA “has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections that can identify their associates, their locations at certain times, their traveling companions and other personal information,” as reported by James Risen and Laura Poitras in the New York Times.
The agency can augment the communications data with material from public, commercial and other sources, including bank codes, insurance information, Facebook profiles, passenger manifests, voter registration rolls and GPS location information, as well as property records and unspecified tax data, according to the documents. They do not indicate any restrictions on the use of such “enrichment” data, and several former senior Obama administration officials said the agency drew on it for both Americans and foreigners.
N.S.A. officials declined to say how many Americans have been caught up in the effort, including people involved in no wrongdoing.
This program still exists, so I suppose it proved “valuable” in spying on Americans.
The proportions of the NSA’s unconstitutional domestic surveillance apparatus are wider and grander than almost anybody conceived prior to these disclosures. And yet, the “real story,” as Sen. Ron Wyden put it, is still being hidden from us.
“After years of stonewalling on whether the government has ever tracked or planned to track the location of law abiding Americans through their cellphones, once again, the intelligence leadership has decided to leave most of the real story secret — even when the truth would not compromise national security,” Wyden said in a statement on Wednesday.
In addition to being able to track the geographic location of any “ordinary American,” the NSA is grabbing 75% of all Internet traffic, the Wall Street Journal reported in August, including in some cases “the written content of emails sent between citizens within the U.S.” Former NSA analyst Russell Tice put it this way: the NSA is “collecting everything.”
What is the Obama administration’s official line on the NSA scandal as of this date? Just as he said on Jay Leno back in August: “There is no spying on Americans.”
Not only they spy on Us, they destroy our brain with false info and hack their gadgets(our bailCciti's) 24/7
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The agency can augment the communications data with material from public, commercial and other sources, including bank codes, insurance information, Facebook profiles, passenger manifests, voter registration rolls and GPS location information, as well as property records and unspecified tax data, according to the documents. They do not indicate any restrictions on the use of such “enrichment” data, and several former senior Obama administration officials said the agency drew on it for both Americans and foreigners.
Mind Control Overview and Head Tilting
*The supercomputers are dependent on satellite mm laser entry into left cerebellum lobe and trying to override your left cerebrum and left neocortex transmissions(right-side body controls). The Chemtrails we all see in the sky put nano-fibers and BIOAPI and ions in the atmosphere and when ingested or inhaled turn your brain cell synapses into like a circuit board. This left cerebellum laser sends the forwarding information using these BIOAPI modified synapses and granule cells to the nervous system.The lasers which enter thru the top right of skull to right cerebrum and right neocortex are the main controllers of higher thought processing and send the thought voice with various options for your control. Thought voice can also be sent thru cheekbones and TMJ area(V2K). These lasers lock you in the creative and dreamy side of the mind. While the logical and reasoning side is limited and the computer sends the artificial cognitive model(see blog for NSA Tactics for Thinking). In short, the laser to left cerebellum must be blocked by silk, vcr tape, tin foil, buttons, magnets, copper,copper screen or all. Perps usually stiffen neck on entry to prevent side to side movement. If no blockers are available, the tilting of head to the right messes up all laser entries and controls of right neocortex. By leaning head on hand or tilting head this will disrupt download. You should hear a slight pop in your left ear and you have disabled laser momentarily. The other primary key is the access to the hypothalamus which creates all likes and dislikes and therefore controlling effort and quitting points. This is how they control your use of tv remote, buying decisions, driving decisions and work efforts. The nose must be covered and top of skull with metal, tin foil, silk or vcr tape or something to block access to this vital organ. I have effectively restricted these areas before and the perps have gone to nano laser and acupuncture points. You must then cover eyebrows and ears with something or just grow hair over these areas. Hair restricts thermal infrared imaging and access to these areas which appear cool relative to rest of body therefore making it hard to locate precise acupuncture points. For lung and stomach points I wear a leather jacket or vest or shield with an aluminum cooking sheet or copper platter. When receiving a bad thought pattern or forced anxiety just tilt your head to one side and the feed is broken.
NSA is tracking the location of approx 5 billion cell phone users.
Isn't they are playing with the security of common people. Every person should ask this question to them.
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How it can be legal to track the location of so many people. That's doesn't sounds good
The proportions of the NSA’s unconstitutional domestic surveillance apparatus are wider and grander than almost anybody conceived prior to these disclosures. And yet, the “real story,” as Sen. Ron Wyden put it, is still being hidden from us.
The proportions of the NSAa??s unconstitutional domestic surveillance apparatus are wider and grander than almost anybody conceived prior to these disclosures. And yet, the a??real story,a?? as Sen. Ron Wyden put it, is still being hidden from us.
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