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Showing Original Post only (View all)Latest Glenn Greenwald Scoop Vindicates NSA Whistleblowers [View all]
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/nsa-whistleblower-klein/?cid=co9260244NSA Leak Vindicates AT&T Whistleblower
Todays revelations that the National Security Agency collected bulk data on the email traffic of millions of Americans provides startling evidence for the first time to support a whistleblowers longstanding claims that AT&T was forwarding global internet traffic to the government from secret rooms inside its offices.
The collection program, which lasted from 2001 to 2011, involved email metadata the enveloped information for email that reveals the senders address and recipient, as well as IP addresses and websites visited, the Guardian newspaper reported today.
Mark Klein, a retired AT&T communications technician, revealed in 2006 that his job duties included connecting internet circuits to a splitting cabinet that led to a secret room in AT&Ts San Francisco office. During the course of that work, he learned from a co-worker that similar cabins were being installed in other cities, including Seattle, San Jose, Los Angeles and San Diego, he said.
The split circuits included traffic from peering links connecting to other internet backbone providers, meaning that AT&T was also diverting traffic routed from its network to or from other domestic and international providers, Klein said.
The collection program, which lasted from 2001 to 2011, involved email metadata the enveloped information for email that reveals the senders address and recipient, as well as IP addresses and websites visited, the Guardian newspaper reported today.
Mark Klein, a retired AT&T communications technician, revealed in 2006 that his job duties included connecting internet circuits to a splitting cabinet that led to a secret room in AT&Ts San Francisco office. During the course of that work, he learned from a co-worker that similar cabins were being installed in other cities, including Seattle, San Jose, Los Angeles and San Diego, he said.
The split circuits included traffic from peering links connecting to other internet backbone providers, meaning that AT&T was also diverting traffic routed from its network to or from other domestic and international providers, Klein said.
Latest Glenn Greenwald Scoop Vindicates One Of The Original NSA Whistleblowers
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-whistleblower-william-binney-was-right-2013-6#ixzz2XSbM53pC
William Binney one of the best mathematicians and code breakers in National Security Agency (NSA) history worked for America's premier covert intelligence gathering organization for 32 years before resigning in late 2001 because he "could not stay after the NSA began purposefully violating the Constitution."
Binney claims that the NSA took one of the programs he built, known as ThinThread, and started using the program and members of his team to spy on virtually every U.S. citizen under the code-name Stellar Wind.
Thanks to NSA whistleblower/leaker Edward Snowden, documents detailing the top-secret surveillance program have now been published for the first time.
And they corroborate what Binney has said for years.
Binney claims that the NSA took one of the programs he built, known as ThinThread, and started using the program and members of his team to spy on virtually every U.S. citizen under the code-name Stellar Wind.
Thanks to NSA whistleblower/leaker Edward Snowden, documents detailing the top-secret surveillance program have now been published for the first time.
And they corroborate what Binney has said for years.
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+1. Telling the truth and exposing Govt corruption are American values worth honoring /nt
think
Jun 2013
#2
Looks like you're into the Desperation Phase, when denial no longer works. Next phase of course is
rhett o rick
Jun 2013
#29
I don't believe ANYTHING Greenwald says, not a damn thing. I'm also not taking what these people
uponit7771
Jun 2013
#21
I can't remember if this is impossible, or if it's something we already knew.
reusrename
Jun 2013
#28