Posted on 06/06/2013 7:10:52 PM PDT by kristinn
Analysts at the National Security Agency can now secretly access real-time user data provided by as many as 50 American companies, ranging from credit rating agencies to internet service providers, two government officials familiar with the arrangements said.
Several of the companies have provided records continuously since 2006, while others have given the agency sporadic access, these officials said. These officials disclosed the number of participating companies in order to provide context for a series of disclosures about the NSA's domestic collection policies. The officials, contacted independently, repeatedly said that "domestic collection" does not mean that the target is based in the U.S. or is a U.S. citizen; rather, it refers only to the origin of the data.
The Wall Street Journal reported today that U.S. credit card companies had also provided customer information. The officials would not disclose the names of the companies because, they said, doing so would provide U.S. enemies with a list of companies to avoid. They declined to confirm the list of participants in an internet monitoring program revealed by the Washington Post and the Guardian, but both confirmed that the program existed.
"The idea is to create a mosaic. We get a tip. We vet it. Then we mine the data for intelligence," one of the officials said.
SNIP
From the different types of data, including their credit card purchases, the locations they sign in to the internet from, and even local police arrest logs, the NSA can track people it considers terrorism or espionage suspects in near-real time. An internet geo-location cell is on constant standby to help analysts determine where a subject logs in from.
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It also jives with Obama's appointment of Susan Rice.
Exactly. IMHO NSA is the latest round of "The Clinton Machine vs. The Chicago Lightweight." Hillary is still bumping along under the bus while Rice gets second-to-none access to POTUS. That has got to give certain influential and connected people serious butthurt.
If I am right, new Benghazi reveal coming in 3...2... This one may be for the K.O.
Whatever you are on, I want some of it. ;-)
ping
“Why would somebody working against Obama choose WaPo to break this? “
Basic Sun Tzu strategy of using the enemy’s strength against the enemy. It’s very devastating when done right, and I think that this was done effectively.
We’re seeing asymmetric warfare applied against obuma by the best practitioners of the art in the world. Cloven-Piven is no match for what’s coming down.
IMO, of course.
We’re seeing asymmetric warfare applied against obuma by the best practitioners of the art in the world. Cloven-Piven is no match for what’s coming down.
Possible. I am leaning to a Bradley Manning copy cat at the moment. I haven’t seen much passion on the right from government circles these days. Everybody seems most concerned about keeping their retirement pay while the Dems burn down the country.
“Everybody seems most concerned about keeping their retirement pay while the Dems burn down the country.”
And isn’t that an in-your-face paradox? If the country implodes, there will be no retirement pay.
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