Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Is The NSA Collecting And Storing Data About Americans?

NSA Chief Defends Agency Against Domestic Spying Charges -- Washington Times

The head of the National Security Agency on Monday denied reports that NSA’s new data center in Utah would collect and store data about Americans, including their e-mails and web-browsing habits.

The $2 billion data center in Bluffdale, Utah, will house massive supercomputers capable of storing and analyzing vast quantities of data when it comes online next year, but U.S. ArmyGen. Keith B. Alexander reiterated NSA’s insistence it does not unlawfully conduct surveillance of Americans.

“We don’t store data on U.S. citizens,” Gen. Alexander told an audience at the American Enterprise Institute. “That’s baloney. … That’s ludicrous.”

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My Comment: Considering the volume of data that the NSA collects everyday .... no one can be THAT sure on what is being collected and processed.

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