Posted on 06/09/2013 11:03:15 PM PDT by Nachum
Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old who leaked information about the NSA's data surveillance programs, said he had the authority to wiretap even the president's email if he had a personal email address.
In an interview with Glenn Greenwald the UK Guardian posted on Sunday, Snowden said while the NSA surveillance programs were at first more narrowly tailored, the agency now "specifically targets the communications of everyone" and stores them because "it's the easiest and most efficient" way to achieve their ends. He said he had the authority to wiretap nearly everyone in the United States.
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I don’t believe him
What strikes me odd, is he’s 29 years old. How do you get such a highly sensitive job right off the bat like that?
Does obama make the threat matrix? He should be somewhere near the top.
Boy, would I love to see a dump of Obama's Blackberry. We'd learn a lot from that.
90 trillion emails are sent every year, which is about 300 million per day. How do you sort through that?
They are called “Super Computers” and the gov has lots of them.
With the chained super computers that the government has built. I hate to quote a bad movie but in Independence Day when the dad says, “you don’t think they paid $500 for a hammer... do you”. I bet there is a treasure trove of things that we have paid for that we know nothing about strictly used to spy on us.
Why not? We have had other whistle blowers who have said similar things in the past. Even under Clinton a few came out and said that all our phone conversations were recorded and could be reproduced. Why not electronic files? I have a good friend in computer forensics. Very little you have entered or emailed from your computer can be be erased even if you think you have reformatted.
I don’t doubt the data mining — look at the facility at Bluffdale. And all of this has been known for a decade as part of the Eschelon program.
I question this 29 year old high school dropout being given a job at NSA at $200,000/yr. And after 3 months he has unprecedented access to information.
Please —
This is all a set up.
But by whom?
Don’t know but security agencies don’t hire people with this kids background and lack thereof and then give him unprecedented access and authority.
“How do you get such a highly sensitive job right off the bat like that?”
18 year old enlistees are hired directly by the Air Force, who runs the NSA, to be in such career fields. They do the grunt work of listening and monitoring.
“He couldn’t possibly wiretap everyone.”
Sure he can. The systems are setup to allow access to any stream or record. If he knows an IP address, an email address, a phone number, any data point reference at all, he can.
“, “you don’t think they paid $500 for a hammer... do you”. “
No need to skim off hammer purchases. They have tens of billions to work with every year.
A monster of such proportion - but yes, our government is spying on American citizens.
He wasn't a lieutenant. His name was Leiutenant Quarles Harris, Jr.
Why?
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