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The NSA Has Been Creating Maps of American Citizens' Social Networks...
Mail Online ^ | 28 September 2013 | Ryan Gorman

Posted on 09/28/2013 6:04:06 PM PDT by Windflier

The NSA has been graphing American’s social networks and plotting them as they do organized crime since at least 2010, according to the latest published Edward Snowden leak.

The highly secretive intelligence agency has been mapping out American citizens’ social connections – identifying associates, determining locations, and logging who they talk to – by taking advantage of loosened rules previously meant to restrict surveillance actions.

As far back as November, 2010, the agency authorized spies to conduct ‘large-scale graph analysis on very large sets of communications metadata without having to check foreignness,’ the New York Times revealed Saturday.


Mapped out: THe NSA has been putting together diagrams of people's social networks similar to how the FBI maps out criminal organizations

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: benghazi; domesticspying; facebook; fastandfurious; fb; impeachnow; irs; nsa; socialnetworks; surveillance; tyranny; unfettered
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Full title: "The NSA has been creating maps of American citizens' social networks similar to how the FBI links organized crime families together"
1 posted on 09/28/2013 6:04:06 PM PDT by Windflier
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From the article:

“The agency augmented that information with bank codes, insurance information, Facebook profiles, passenger manifests, voter registration rolls, property records and tax data, the Times further divulged.

There does not appear to be any restriction on the types of data culled, or who it is gather on, the Times noted.”


2 posted on 09/28/2013 6:05:58 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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I’m so happy not to have any of those social network accounts........


3 posted on 09/28/2013 6:10:09 PM PDT by basil (2ASisters.org)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

Ping!


4 posted on 09/28/2013 6:10:50 PM PDT by basil (2ASisters.org)
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To: Windflier

But no one has been able to connect the dots between Soetoro, Wright, Young, and Larry in an unsolved murder?


5 posted on 09/28/2013 6:10:57 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Windflier

It just keeps getting more and more ominous...


6 posted on 09/28/2013 6:11:45 PM PDT by uncitizen
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To: basil

You have an account here. You probably send emails.


7 posted on 09/28/2013 6:12:55 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Windflier

Obama’s network must look pretty interesting.


8 posted on 09/28/2013 6:13:16 PM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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So they will see most of my online friends are in ID and UT...


9 posted on 09/28/2013 6:13:41 PM PDT by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, now Christian. I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see.)
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To: Windflier
So, "South Park" was correct?


10 posted on 09/28/2013 6:19:15 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: driftdiver

Well—there is that—LOL!

I’m also involved in an organization which is trying to save the 2A-—guess that makes me a target for sure.

Oh well..............


11 posted on 09/28/2013 6:21:07 PM PDT by basil (2ASisters.org)
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I’m so happy not to have any of those social network accounts...

I wish it were that easy to stay out of the range of their radar, but no. We Freeps were probably the first to get tracked.

12 posted on 09/28/2013 6:22:16 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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But no one has been able to connect the dots between Soetoro, Wright, Young, and Larry in an unsolved murder?

They also couldn't connect the dots on the Tsarnaev brothers before the Boston Marathon bombing - even though they were posting on FACEBOOK!

13 posted on 09/28/2013 6:23:27 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: NewHampshireDuo
Obama’s network must look pretty interesting.

We Freepers knew all about Obama's network in 2008...

14 posted on 09/28/2013 6:24:20 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

The main thing to remember is that the infrastructure of a nightmarish totalitarian government is being built, and its aimed squarely at us. All it will need is someone slightly worse than Obama who has the will to actually go ahead and turn the key.


15 posted on 09/28/2013 6:28:56 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Windflier

None of it can truly be intended to protect us, or numerous other policies such as wholesale would exist. Thinking of moslem immigration, open borders, empowering the moslem brotherhood, arming the cartels, etc,,,.


16 posted on 09/28/2013 6:31:30 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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They also couldn't connect the dots on the Tsarnaev brothers before the Boston Marathon bombing - even though they were posting on FACEBOOK!

The uncomfortable questions that raises are...

Is that because they are too overloaded with data to find an elephant in a pea patch?

Or...

Were they just not interested in two potential Jihadis on American soil?

Or...

Were they ordered to stand down on that info?

17 posted on 09/28/2013 6:33:53 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: Windflier

“What I saw at the coup”

http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/what-i-saw-at-the-coup/

How social network analysis could be used to target political enemies of the state for a decapitation strike.


18 posted on 09/28/2013 6:54:12 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Windflier

LOL!!

My old computer had been telling me that someone was trying to embed illegal cookies on my hard drive. An ethical hacker friend tracked it back to NSA.

We changed everything.


19 posted on 09/28/2013 6:55:09 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NATURAL BORN CITIZEN: BORN IN THE USA OF USA CITIZEN PARENTS)
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To: TigersEye

Mama Tsarnaev had it right; her sons were set up.

That is why BHO2 was tearing around the White House, screaming “Kill the Chechens!” the day after the bombing.

Those young men were hired to do a job, and I bet they didn’t make-up the contents of those pressure cookers, either.


20 posted on 09/28/2013 6:58:59 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NATURAL BORN CITIZEN: BORN IN THE USA OF USA CITIZEN PARENTS)
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