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Massive San Antonio NSA Data Center Raises Eyebrows
Andrew Breitbart's Big Government ^
| 17 Jun 2013
| Ben Shapiro
Posted on 06/18/2013 4:06:19 PM PDT by drewh
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To: bgill
I know. Just trying to get my bearings on where that is.
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posted on
06/18/2013 5:41:50 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(The reason we own guns is to protect ourselves from those wanting to take our guns from us.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
NSA collected intelligence from four geostationary satellitesOne 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.
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posted on
06/18/2013 5:58:28 PM PDT
by
Bobalu
(It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
To: Black Agnes
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.
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posted on
06/18/2013 6:03:38 PM PDT
by
bgill
(This reply was mined before it was posted.)
To: EEGator
Death to Goldstein that terrist!
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posted on
06/18/2013 6:07:50 PM PDT
by
Theophilus
(Not merely prolife, but prolific)
To: Theophilus
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posted on
06/18/2013 6:14:37 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: drewh
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the plant will supposedly translate intercepted communications from the NSA; the communications are then forwarded to Maryland for processing.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.
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posted on
06/18/2013 6:42:41 PM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: El Gato; Eaker; hocndoc; Squantos; SwinneySwitch; MeekOneGOP; weegee; EQAndyBuzz; 2ndDivisionVet; ..
"...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."
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posted on
06/18/2013 7:15:02 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
the Texas Cryptology CenterIf 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.
To: Windflier
To: Windflier
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posted on
06/18/2013 8:40:56 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: JoeProBono
Where are the eyebrows it raised?
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posted on
06/18/2013 8:41:53 PM PDT
by
pax_et_bonum
(Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
To: JoeProBono
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.
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posted on
06/18/2013 9:03:11 PM PDT
by
El Gato
("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
To: hoosiermama
They do still interept a lot of foreign signals you know. That being their legitimate function.
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posted on
06/18/2013 9:06:57 PM PDT
by
El Gato
("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
To: EQAndyBuzz
The interesection at the top of the image is Micron and Potranco
I lived in two apartments nearby on Potranco. Later had a house just off Micron.
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posted on
06/18/2013 9:14:24 PM PDT
by
El Gato
("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
To: Texas Eagle
You think they are translating the English conservatives speak into Arabic
Think people, this place was being bulit before The Won came to power. It was, WAS, to be used for work on Foreign comms.
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posted on
06/18/2013 9:19:26 PM PDT
by
El Gato
("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
To: Jack Hydrazine
Let’s not forget PINE GAP, in Australia that allowed ALL the communications for the 1st Gulf War to occur.
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posted on
06/19/2013 3:14:20 PM PDT
by
Pagey
(HELL is The 2nd Term of a POTUS who uses the terms “social justice” and “fair distribution".)
To: Windflier
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posted on
06/19/2013 6:17:08 PM PDT
by
fanfan
("If Muslim kids were asked to go to church on Sunday and take Holy Communion there would be war.")
To: Pagey
I totally forgot about that. Good call!
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posted on
06/19/2013 8:54:56 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
To: drewh
When the SHTF. They prefer to be with Texans. I understand.
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posted on
06/20/2013 12:43:03 PM PDT
by
showme_the_Glory
(ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
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