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Even Congress Wants To Know What The NSA Is Doing With This $2 Billion Utah
Spy Center
Maybe you've heard of it and maybe you haven't, but in Bluffdale, Utah
alongside one of the largest polygamist sects in America, the NSA is
building a one-million-square-foot data collection center — five times the
size of the U.S. capital.
Despite immense secrecy, and construction workers with Top Secret clearances
, news of the project made it to the pages of Wired last month.
Intelligence authority James Bamford wrote that the center is part of
President Bush's "total information awareness" program that was killed by
Congress in 2003 in response to public outrage over its potential for
invading Americans privacy.
One senior intelligence official formerly involved with the project told
Bamford "this is more than just a data center," that it's a code breaking
megalopolis the likes of which the world has never seen.
Several years ago the NSA made a major leap in breaking complex encryptions
used in everything from "financial information, stock transactions, business
deals, foreign military and diplomatic secrets, legal documents,
confidential personal communications."
The official concluded by saying “Everybody’s a target; everybody with
communication is a target.”
The story caused such a stir that the NSA's chief General Keith Alexander
was called before Congress last week to testify about the project and
categorically denied the facility will be used to spy on American citizens.
"The NSA does not have the ability to do that in the United States,"
Alexander told Georgia Rep. Hank Johnson. "We’re not authorized to do that,
nor do we have the equipment in the United States to collect that kind of
information.”
NSA public information officer Vanee' Vines backed up Alexander in an email
saying: “What it will be is a state-of-the-art facility designed to support
the Intelligence Community’s efforts to further strengthen and protect the
nation."
Update: The NSA does not spy on Americans, they hire it out to the Israelis.
While it's impossible to know the specifics of the work to be done in
Bluffdale, it's pretty clear the NSA does have the power to snoop on
Americans at will, despite what General Alexander said to Congress.
Former NSA analyst Adrienne J. Kinne told Bamford the NSA has had the
ability to listen in on American phone calls in real time since 9/11 when,
she said, "basically all the rules were thrown out the window."
The eavesdropping Kinne was involved in even included listening to U.S.
journalists calling home from overseas.
“A lot of time you could tell they were calling their families,” she says,
“incredibly intimate, personal conversations. It’s almost like going
through and finding somebody’s diary,”
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/top-nsa-general-says-this-new-2-billion-spy-center-will-definitely-not-snoop-on-americans-2012-4#ixzz1vuiGgcSy |
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