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Documents: U.S. intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program
Washington Post ^ | 6/6/13 | Barton Gellman and Laura Poitras

Posted on 06/06/2013 3:45:54 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA

The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time.

The highly classified program, code-named PRISM, has not been disclosed publicly before. Its establishment in 2007 and six years of exponential growth took place beneath the surface of a roiling debate over the boundaries of surveillance and privacy. Even late last year, when critics of the foreign intelligence statute argued for changes, the only members of Congress who know about PRISM were bound by oaths of office to hold their tongues.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fbi; govtabuse; nsa; openborders; policestate; prism; spying; spyingoncitizens; tyranny; unsecureborders; wideopenborders
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To: newheart

The people that run this country have decided Obama is politically expendable.


81 posted on 06/06/2013 5:20:58 PM PDT by sunrise_sunset
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To: Red in Blue PA

One thing after another. Where are the Republicrats on this? oh that’s right, sending Lindsey Grahamnesty out to the TV shows to defend everything Obama does.


82 posted on 06/06/2013 5:29:23 PM PDT by CountryClassSF
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To: Red in Blue PA

The thing folks don’t understand is the connection between the intelligence services and the world “financial oligarchy”.

If you don’t know who’s really behind the curtain directing what’s going on, you’re simply fighting a front.

The CIA was founded by Wall Street operatives who were part of its globalist espionage efforts for decades prior to their careers at CIA and State.

Look up the Dulles brothers, read all about them.

The top level of CIA works for globalists, always has, always will.

It makes no sense to have intelligence services - whose mandate is “national security” - to be outside the chain of command of the military. IMHO, intelligence services present much more of an opportunity for giving up military secrets than providing the military with reliable information on foreign militaries, since the stock-in-trade of intelligence services is spies, and they themselves are riddled with double agents. It only takes one double agent in the right place to lose a tremendous amount of information. And the military has no control of information once the CIA has it; they only can control information that is kept exclusively inside the military.

So we have a supposedly civilian organization which has the opportunity to completely fabricate reports to Congressional oversight committees, since the committees have no alternate means of verifying what they are told.

Which is not hard for them to accept, because members of Congress are backed by the same globalists. They rely on organizations like CFR for their view of foreign policy and the world diplomatic and geopolitical scene. So if CIA briefs a Congressional Intelligence oversight committee and provides evidence that the leader of nation X is a threat and must be overthrown, and the evidence looks reasonable - most of the committee members will undoubtedly accept this as fact, and give the CIA leadership whatever authorizations it requests. Without a doubt, organizations like CFR will already be cranking out articles casting the leader of nation X in a bad light, and the “secret briefing” will simply be confirming the Congressmen’s suspicions.

And there we have it - a President has the military on one hand, and the State Dept and civilian intelligence agencies on the other. Military Flag Officers are gently brought on board with globalism via relationships with defense “experts” at CFR, think tanks, contractors, universities, etc., but they undoubtedly have very little idea of what transpires between those people and State/CIA. Any such officers that buck the system can simply be retired.

A President is simply handed a few carefully engineered options and a recommendation that basically relays what the financial oligarchy wishes to happen.

Once you get outside of the White House, there is no logging of who said what to whom - where the advice came from or how it was developed.

The CIA only releases tiny carefully engineered statements to the public about what it tells the President and how it arrived at its recommendations, with such pronouncements inherently limited because of “national security” concerns. There is nothing preventing the relationships top CIA people have in the academic, business and diplomatic worlds from being used in secret, providing leaders in those spheres with virtually unlimited influence on our intelligence services.


83 posted on 06/06/2013 5:30:03 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: Red in Blue PA

This is what a single party system does. You are either a party member or you are not. If you fight the party you become marked of re-education or extermination. Bill Ayers contemplated doing this by simple murder, and Ms. Dorn was intrigued, but the Chicago crowd knew to follow the money. FedGov had the money. So they groomed a bastard halfbreed to get to the money. Historians will study this for a long time.


84 posted on 06/06/2013 5:34:54 PM PDT by Gabrial (The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the Whitehouse)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Geez, so cynical /sarc


85 posted on 06/06/2013 5:36:29 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Carry_Okie

I’m not sure, given this system, it’s even a basis for short term strategy. Everyone has a relative, former business partner or other party that’s probably dirty somehow.

I really wonder if this isn’t why Palin cut and ran. Even if she and Todd were squeaky clean, is her whole entire family squeaky clean?


86 posted on 06/06/2013 5:37:55 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Carry_Okie

No, I haven’t forgotten echelon. But it does give me pause about the ‘07 start date. There wasn’t any great terrorist event around then.


87 posted on 06/06/2013 5:38:58 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: newheart

A few weeks ago I thought this could all be swept under the rug. Well now they’re gonna need an awful big rug now. The floodgates are about to open up as a bunch of people, who were going to be thrown under the bus, are speaking up. It’s going to be a long, hot summer for the Hope and Change crowd.


88 posted on 06/06/2013 5:42:05 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Black Agnes

Tin foil hat time. This very well might be an authorized leak from team kenya. This is way over the top and obvious. Top secret splashed all over, etc.

This could be a ham handed start of a new propaganda spin from team kenya. The big pitch by the Dems will be government is the problem not obama.

That is almost exactly what they are doing with the IRS scandal now with all the faux displays of outrage.


89 posted on 06/06/2013 5:44:04 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Red in Blue PA

1) Alex Jones, from Info wars, becomes the most credible Journalist in America.
2) I got the last five boxes of tin foil from Walmart, and no one gave me a sideways glance


90 posted on 06/06/2013 5:47:11 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: Red in Blue PA

I wonder if Obamas renowned data base has been fed by the gov nsa assets?

Everyone talks about that thing like it has everything about everyone, maybe we should have that data base checked by Congress to see if he has bent a few rules to use the nsa data for political gains.


91 posted on 06/06/2013 5:51:19 PM PDT by R0CK3T
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To: newheart

Carl Gallups, freedom Fridays, mentioned a few months ago, that shocking news was to break, then snowball and gather momentum before the Cold Case Posse investigation would break and the MSM would have no choice but to cover the BC forgery.

I thought he was over-hyping the situation.
Then the big three scandals broke, and I thought that was the avalanche of news!

Now This-Wow!!


92 posted on 06/06/2013 5:51:33 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: Red in Blue PA
tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs,

Theyy knew about Weiner a long time ago if this is correct.

93 posted on 06/06/2013 5:52:34 PM PDT by mware
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To: Red in Blue PA
This surveillance really worked. It stopped the Boston Marathon bombings. Oh wait.

They weren't meant to be stopped, or they would have been.

94 posted on 06/06/2013 5:55:13 PM PDT by glock rocks ("They who don't speak against evil are just as guilty as those who do the evil..." -GraceG)
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To: lonevoice

known as:

“The Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cyber-Security Initiative Data Center”

A data storage facility for the United States Intelligence Community that is designed to be a primary storage resource capable of storing data on the scale of yottabytes (1 yottabyte = 1 trillion terabytes, or 1 quadrillion gigabytes).

Its purpose — as the name implies — is to support the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), though its precise mission is secret.

The National Security Agency,... which will lead operations at the facility,....is the executive agent for the Director of National Intelligence.....

It is located at Camp Williams, near Bluffdale, Utah, between Utah Lake and Great Salt Lake.

The data center is alleged to be able to capture “all forms of communication, including:

..the complete contents of private emails
.. cell phone calls
.. Internet searches
.. all sorts of personal data...trails—parking receipts... travel itineraries.... bookstore purchases.... and other digital ‘pocket litter’.

According to the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, the federal government is legally prohibited from collecting, storing, analyzing, or disseminating the content of the communications of US persons, whether inside or outside of the United States, unless authorized by an individual warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

..The planned structure is 1 million or 1.5 million square feet.
..Projected to cost from $1.5 billion to $2 billion when finished in September 2013.[

One report suggested that it will cost another $2 billion for hardware, software, and maintenance...... The completed facility is expected to have a power demand of 65 megawatts, costing about $40 million per year.

During the Obama Administration, the NSA has officially continued operating under the new FISA guidelines..... However, in April 2009 officials at the United States Department of Justice acknowledged that the NSA had engaged in “overcollection” of domestic communications in excess of the FISA court’s authority,....but claimed that the acts were unintentional and had since been rectified.

From Wiki


95 posted on 06/06/2013 5:55:16 PM PDT by caww
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To: Zeta Beam

There has to be more to the Boston Bombers considering all the history around the father and intel community.


96 posted on 06/06/2013 5:58:32 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: jurroppi1

self ping


97 posted on 06/06/2013 5:59:21 PM PDT by jurroppi1
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To: Red in Blue PA

DO THEY KNOW WHERE THE REAL BC IS?


98 posted on 06/06/2013 5:59:40 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: Fresh Wind
Odungo...

I like that one. I will add it to my repertoire.

I have heard people, Eric Boling, Lindsey Grahamm, saying that they are doing nothing illegal so they are not worried, but, you don't have to do anything wrong to generate an IRS audit, just criticize dumBO.

99 posted on 06/06/2013 6:00:01 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: Black Agnes
So, maybe the smart meter phobes are onto something too?

Why would this not be collected and stored in the huge hard drive arrays in NSA's new data center in Utah along with the phone call cataloging and internet activity cataloging of all who live in America? All? ?? 

100 posted on 06/06/2013 6:02:12 PM PDT by dennisw (too much of a good thing is a bad thing - Joe Pine)
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