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2020-05-27 Government

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] ...says investigative journalist who exposed classified documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden

Ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden shared thousands of classified documents about US surveillance programs with journalist Barton Gellman in 2013

One of those documents revealed that the NSA was tracking phone calls made by Americans inside the US

In an excerpt from his new book, Dark Mirror, Gellman lays out how the tool at the heart of the program works in unprecedented detail

It cultivated a database that was 'preconfigured to map anyone's life at the touch of a button', Gellman writes

The program was scaled back significantly in the wake of the Snowden leak, but a more restrained version is still in effect today

Though the NSA insists that the database is only used to investigate terrorists, Gellman raises concerns about how easily it could be abused

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 This is a displacement exercise to distract us from the fact that we don't really have intelligence agencies that actually fight external enemies.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-05-27 08:50|| 2020-05-27 08:50|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ Such as events in Wuhan, China over the past 10-15 years.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-27 08:52|| 2020-05-27 08:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Snowy nails it.

Posted by Woodrow 2020-05-27 09:00|| 2020-05-27 09:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Snowy, It's an establishment protection agency.

It's not to protect you, your liberty terrifies them.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-05-27 12:56|| 2020-05-27 12:56|| Front Page Top