U.S. Outlines N.S.A.'s Culling of Data for All Domestic Calls

New York Times ^ | 7/31/13 | Charlie Savage

[Nachum]

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Wednesday released formerly classified documents outlining a once-secret program of the National Security Agency that is collecting records of all domestic phone calls in the United States, as top officials testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. As the hearing began, The Guardian newspaper published another document from the archives of Top Secret surveillance matters leaked to it by the former N.S.A. contractor Edward J. Snowden. It was a 32-page presentation describing the N.S.A.´s XKeyscore program, by which N.S.A. analysts can mine vast databases of phone and Internet information the agency has vacuumed up.

[jurroppi1]

it is not just verizon. Read the details, AT&T and sprint as well as several other wireless providers are on the list being trawled. They are not just collecting metadata, they are trawling telcos because they don’t circuit switch (haven’t for a long time). Everybody uses packet switching right now, so there is no differentiation between data, voice, video, audio, email, anything. That’s why it’s called trawling, they access the whole pipe and supposedly only keep what they want, but they have everything that comes through that pipe (what they want and anything else that happens to be in the pipe as well - could be your data).

[autumnraine]

Credit due, credit given!

[autumnraine]

The whole thing sounds ridiculous. At least it would 20 years or so ago.

[Excellence]

No, I can’t turn it off to the EMS service.

[444Flyer]

"It's not just Obama's people."

True! America was sold down the river a long time ago.:(

[thecodont]

That’s why it’s called trawling, they access the whole pipe and supposedly only keep what they want, but they have everything that comes through that pipe (what they want and anything else that happens to be in the pipe as well - could be your data).

Dang -- we're the electronic krill and they're the baleen!

[bgill]

They gots you on FR.

[upchuck]

They gots you on FR.

Oh yeah! Gots me big time. Gots you, too.

They should pay attention. Might learn something.

[jurroppi1]

A fairly apt comparison...

[familyop]

Hey, that looks like my place in the photo, except that it’s much colder here.

[meadsjn]

Snowden is always one step ahead.
I suppose one could claim that was by design.

I'm hoping to see dumps of those presidential phone calls he claimed were available.

Timing is key.

[newzjunkey]

OK, I really *am* tired. I read that as domestic CATS.

[kevao]

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[A Navy Vet]

"IN YOUR FACE ! We record all you do and there isn`t a damn thing you can do about it."

Actually, as this all come to front, I'm thinking that there may be repercussions. Stand fast and watch...

[caww]

[SgtBilko]

Good ‘ol times when letters we’re private, but today ..http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mail.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

[ScottinVA]

We can, and should, pay attention to both. They are both deadly threats to America

And... they're very likely interrelated anyway. Does anyone think the IRS isn't benefitting from NSA spying?

[Cedar]

How about just visiting a friend in person? Private conversations worked well for centuries. ;)

[Stayfree]

Just got a notice from my bank Citibank setting forth my privacy rights and what I can do about them...every one of them from privacy of income & social security number said there was nothing I could do about how they were used...

In other words, there is not a damn thing you can do to stop us from sharing all of your personal information and getting paid to do so.....
WELL,FUK U CITIBANK

[Patriot95]

The only reason the NSA story got so much more attention is because it affected the traitors of the MSM. The IRS targeting conservatives only affects us “little people.”