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In reply to the discussion: Get One Thing Clear: NSA Domestic Spy Op Is FASCISM [View all]Waiting For Everyman
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That's a DIRECT WITNESS, who BUILT THE DAMN PROGRAM HIMSELF!
Edit to add: Second link quote...
Russ Tice, the original NSA whistleblower, told Business Insider that in 2005 the NSA "didn't have the capability to go after every American's communications. There were three things they didn't have: the computer processing capability, the power grid they didn't have enough electricity to go after everyone, and the biggest thing they didn't have was the storage capability."
Now they have those things in the form of the Titan supercomputer (processing capability), the expansion of NSA headquarters at Fort Meade (electricity), and the new Utah Data Center (storage.)
A source inside the NSA today confirmed to Tice that increased capabilities allow the spy agency to copy "every domestic communication in this country, word for word, content, every phone conversation, every email they are collecting everything in bulk and putting it in databases."
And Binney recently told Zero Hedge that the government believes it can gather and use any information (including content) about American citizens living on U.S. soil if it comes from "any service provider
any third party
any commercial company like a telecom or internet service provider, libraries, medical companies holding data about anyone, any U.S. citizen or anyone else."
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-processed-1-trillion-pieces-of-data-2013-6#ixzz2XijEwVNc