Wednesday, April 4, 2012

NSA's Huge New $2bn Spy Center Will Be Able To Collect Info On Americans At An Unprecedented Level

Plans for the new Utah spy center. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Conceptual Site plan)

NSA's Huge New $2bn Spy Center Will Be Used To Snoop On Ordinary Americans, Warn Experts -- Daily Mail

The National Security Agency is facing claims that its new spy centre in Utah will have the power to monitor ordinary Americans.

Intelligence expert James Bamford recently interviewed a whistleblower who claimed that the NSA has software that is able to search through the emails, phone calls and texts of U.S. citizens, in an article published in WIRED magazine.

But Mike Baker, a former cover field operations officer for the CIA, told Fox News that the paranoia surrounding the billion dollar project was understandable yet exaggerated, adding that the main problem was the size of the data collection warehouse.

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Update #1: Is the NSA's massive new spy center watching you? -- FOX News
Update #2: Shady Companies With Ties to Israel Wiretap the U.S. for the NSA -- Threat Level

My Comment: As I have said on numerous occasions .... if this was happening in any past administration .... the media, civil liberties organizations, etc., would be screaming to the rafters on how dangerous this is .... on this case .... with a few exceptions .... everyone is silent.

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