Post-September 11, NSA ‘enemies’ include us

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James Bamford
Politico
Sept 13, 2011

Somewhere between Sept. 11 and today, the enemy morphed from a handful of terrorists to the American population at large, leaving us nowhere to run and no place to hide.

Within weeks of the attacks, the giant ears of the National Security Agency, always pointed outward toward potential enemies, turned inward on the American public itself. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, established 23 years before to ensure that only suspected foreign agents and terrorists were targeted by the NSA, would be bypassed. Telecom companies, required by law to keep the computerized phone records of their customers confidential unless presented with a warrant, would secretly turn them over in bulk to the NSA without ever asking for a warrant.

There, NSA software and hardware designed for “deep packet inspection” filtered through the billions of email messages looking for key names, words, phrases and addresses. The equipment also monitored phone conversations and even what pages people view on the Web — the porn sites they visit, the books they buy on Amazon, the social networks they interact with and the text messages they send and receive.

Because the information is collected in real time, attempting to delete history caches from a computer is useless.

At the NSA, thousands of analysts who once eavesdropped on troop movements of enemy soldiers in distant countries were now listening in on the bedroom conversations of innocent Americans in nearby states.

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“We were told that we were to listen to all conversations that were intercepted, to include those of Americans,” Adrienne Kinne, a former NSA “voice interceptor,” told me. She was recalled to active duty after Sept. 11.

“Some of those conversations are personal,” she said. “Some even intimate. … I had a real problem with the fact that people were listening to it and that I was listening to it. … When I was on active duty in ’94 to ’98, we would never collect on an American.”

Despite his hollow campaign protests, President Barack Obama has greatly expanded what President George W. Bush began. And through amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Congress largely ratified the secret Bush program.

So much intercepted information is now being collected from “enemies” at home and abroad that, in order to store it all, the agency last year began constructing the ultimate monument to eavesdropping. Rising in a remote corner of Utah, the agency’s gargantuan data storage center will be 1 million square feet, cost nearly $2 billion and likely be capable of eventually holding more than a yottabyte of data — equal to about a septillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text.


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9 Responses to “Post-September 11, NSA ‘enemies’ include us”

  1. In light of how this does not surprise me any way, I wonder if I can enlist their help? There was this website I went to a few years ago, for the life of me, I cannot remember the name and I can’t find it again. They should have it saved somewhere in my “file”. I have to figure, just by visiting PrisonPlanet, that is enough to get me on the “terrorist” watch list….

    Captain Ron Reply:
    September 13th, 2011 at 10:50 am

    Well Mary… welcome to the resistance… no other way to go now… but forward.

    emus Reply:
    September 13th, 2011 at 2:38 pm

    Sharia is a tool for the west to maintain a cultural clash, antagonize westerners against Muslims and project them as backward. west want to convince its citizens that Muslim world don’t allow women enough freedom and thus setting aside an excuse to intervene in the name of liberating women incase their installed puppet is not that obedient. west need a potential enemy for conflicts to feed its arms industry. sharia helps western leaders convince its citizens that they have more freedom compared to Islamic world by projecting the Islamic countries as backward and medieval. it is also a way to control Muslims with a western backed puppet. at the same time sharia is an easy target by western media to perpetuate a clash of civilization since the warmongers need to breed hate and need to have enemies. this is why after invasions after invasions west is actually promoting and imposing sharia law and Islamic state like they are doing in Libya. people need to remain divided and have a fictitious enemy to hate so the “elites” can take advantage of it.

    the sage Reply:
    September 13th, 2011 at 3:39 pm

    Alex…

    What do you think the likelihood is that those who visit your site, post on it or are members of the forum are specifically monitored and-or categorized by Homeland Security of other governmental agencies? And how much of this are you and have been aware of and for how long?
    How much does it pay

    Captain Ron Reply:
    September 13th, 2011 at 4:08 pm

    Buy a fuckin “Alex Jones Info War Camo Hat” and find out!

  2. LET them read this: drop dead!

  3. NSA = New Socialist Alliance = war on freedom.

  4. Fuck ‘em all….

  5. what will it take for most humans to wake the f up ?

    look at em….they all walk around with a cell phone

    glued to their ear…eyes glazed over…urban zombies

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