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2020-05-27 Government
NSA's phone-tracking program is FAR more extensive than anyone knew
[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

  • The tool, Mainway, secretly scoured billions of phone records a day for years

  • 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|| [11135 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

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