Posted on 06/18/2013 4:06:19 PM PDT by drewh
Even as reports break about the size and scope of the National Security Agency’s vast data storage center in Utah, new details are emerging about a second massive NSA center in San Antonio, Texas. According to the Houston Chronicle, “Satellite and aerial imagery show that massive air conditioning units and backup generators have been added to the facility, which is now ringed by barbed-wire fencing. City permits and property tax records show that the complex has been dramatically expanded.” According to sources, the plant will supposedly translate intercepted communications from the NSA; the communications are then forwarded to Maryland for processing.
The data center itself is about 94,000 square feet. It became operational in 2012. But the San Antonio Express-News could find no funding in the Defense Department budgets from 2004 through 2013 for the work at the Sony plant where the NSA center was located. The property on which the data center is located has grown by approximately 135,000 square feet, and is now worth some $72 million. A local bond sale in 2006 estimated that the NSA would be dropping $300 million into the area.
Originally, the NSA was much more transparent about the project, actually holding a job fair to promote their expansion in San Antonio. But from 2007 on, the news about the site has been nonexistent. In 2010, San Antonio residents reported that their garage doors had been opening randomly, and the NSA admitted that its antenna were interfering with garage door openers.
Ben Shapiro is Editor-At-Large of Breitbart News and author of the New York Times bestseller “Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America” (Threshold Editions, January 8, 2013
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I know. Just trying to get my bearings on where that is.
One is a backup. Two of the big sats could do the job, three gives you extra capabilities though...one extra has to be up in case of a failure so it can be moved into place.
With at least three big sats they can communicate line-of-sight between each other.
Their command and control links cannot be jammed. They would not use the large dish for command/control. Instead a much smaller and very precise dish with a spot beam would be used. The ground station for command/control would use a lot of power for the uplink and the receiver on the bird would be set to VERY low sensitivity. The spot beam downlink would have VERY low power as well. The only way to interfere would be to have a huge dish and a lot of power inside the small area targeted by the spot beam.(say around Ft Meade) Located at any other location there would not be enough signal coming down to pick up and from any other location you could not send up enough power to overload the command channel.
The commercial TV satellites like DISH and DirectTV use low-tech spot beams to send down the local channels. That is why it is impossible to pick up local NYC TV stations in say Los Angeles...you are outside the spot beams target area.
Walmart’s own little NSA taking photos of my mug when I buy a dozen eggs. No wonder prices have increased. We all are People of Walmart getting our faces scanned at every aisle. Sure, they really needed the road doubled in size to accommodate 15-20 employees there, uh huh. More likely to accomodate those new armoured Homeland Security trucks.
Death to Goldstein that terrist!
the plant will translate intercepted communications from Conservatives, Tea Partiers and Hockey Moms; the communications are then forwarded to Organizing For Action for processing.
There. Fixed it.
If that is true, it is about code breaking, not phone monitoring operation. That is the stuff they were originally involved in and a legitimate government function, national defense.
Thanks for the ping!
bttt
Where are the eyebrows it raised?
You can see my previous apartment, from the 99-03 time freame in that picture. At upper left. I was on the end of the building closest to and facing te street.
The building was empty then, IIRC, Sony having taken it over from Micron, and then they left as well.
They do still interept a lot of foreign signals you know. That being their legitimate function.
I lived in two apartments nearby on Potranco. Later had a house just off Micron.
Think people, this place was being bulit before The Won came to power. It was, WAS, to be used for work on Foreign comms.
Let’s not forget PINE GAP, in Australia that allowed ALL the communications for the 1st Gulf War to occur.
bfl
I totally forgot about that. Good call!
When the SHTF. They prefer to be with Texans. I understand.
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