Secret to Prism program: Even bigger data seizure

pioneer press ^ | 6-15-13 | STEPHEN BRAUN, ANNE FLAHERTY, JACK GILLUM and MATT APUZZO

[TurboZamboni]

WASHINGTON—In the months and early years after 9/11, FBI agents began showing up at Microsoft Corp. more frequently than before, armed with court orders demanding information on customers. Around the world, government spies and eavesdroppers were tracking the email and Internet addresses used by suspected terrorists. Often, those trails led to the world's largest software company and, at the time, largest email provider.

The agents wanted email archives, account information, practically everything, and quickly. Engineers compiled the data, sometimes by hand, and delivered it to the government.

Often there was no easy way to tell if the information belonged to foreigners or Americans. So much data was changing hands that one former Microsoft employee recalls that the engineers were anxious about whether the company should cooperate.

[TurboZamboni]

“I don’t have to listen to your phone calls to know what you’re doing. If I know every single phone call you’ve made, I’m able to determine every single person you talk to; I can get a pattern about your life that is very, very intrusive. The real question here is what do they do with this information that they collect that does not have anything to do with al-Qa’ida? ... But this idea that ... we’re going to trust the president and vice president of the United States that we’re doing the right thing — don’t count me in on that.” —then-Senator Joe Biden in 2006

[oblomov]

Couldn’t the NSA simply install equipment in large server farms to intercept and process the electromagnetic radiation given off by the equipment of the lessee companies?

The government could claim that there was no “wiretap”, but merely the collection and processing of ambient radiation...

[Liz]

Mmmmmm......thanks to NSA, now we got evidence:

(1) Obama/Jarrett/Axelrod/Emanuel's communiques making lucrative deals with enemies of the US in exchange for foreign aid.

(2) The Gang of Eight colluding---getting their marching orders from Third World hellholes WRT immigration reform--- the gang exchanging aye votes for insider deals.

(3) Eric Holder and Obama deciding which "troublesome" news organizations and reporters to surveil.

(4) Hillary Clinton reading to Susan Rice what to say on TV talk WRT Benghazi.

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Memo to NSA, please copy the Join Chiefs of Staff w/ all communiques.

[Defiant]

Don’t doubt that they have all electronic data of any kind, including the grocery store customer programs that track purchases, all your credit card purchases with a copy of the receipt, your health record, Netflix videos watched, and on and on. If you poke your head out of the sand, and get their attention, they can then focus on you and find a way to destroy you. This is how they plan to end the republic.

[BfloGuy]

If you poke your head out of the sand, and get their attention, they can then focus on you and find a way to destroy you. This is how they plan to end the republic.

That's it. Everything's "against the law" now. The conventional wisdom is that we all commit three felonies a day. Hey, they gotta get results to justify their jobs.

And they will.

[justa-hairyape]

If you poke your head out of the sand, and get their attention, they can then focus on you and find a way to destroy you. This is how they plan to end the republic.

What goes around comes around. Foreign agents have been mining the data base and are currently mining the data base. Our entire government structure has now been compromised.