More crackpot thinking from Glenn Greenwald

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96. Like ThinThread, the technologies TIA incubated migrated to other programs

Regardless of what program code names have been changed to, the capabilities to carry out mass surveillance and profiling developed by these earlier programs are still in use and have been vastly expanded, albeit it may be that the current programs have returned some of the safeguards originally intended by Binney, Drake and others at NSA who were sacrificed in the process of bringing this thing to life.

The Utah facility due to open in September, and other server farms currently operating around the country are testaments to the fact that TIA and Thin Thread are very much alive. The 2008 FISA Amendment legalized much of The Program, the Bush era domestic surveillance, guaranteeing the growth of these programs.

The most alarming aspect of all this is that despite the fact that the NSA effectively picks up on and "maps out" terrorist groups and support networks operating inside the US, other IC agencies continue to run them as assets, granting known terrorists virtual immunity. That is the fatal flaw in the system that has led to every major "intelligence failure" resulting in a terrorist attack in the U.S. from 9/11 through the Boston Bombing.