Overhead: New Photos of the NSA and Other Top Intelligence Agencies Revealed for First Time -- Creative Times Report
In partnership with The Intercept, artist Trevor Paglen offers a glimpse of America's vast surveillance infrastructure, photographing three of the United States' most powerful intelligence agencies—including the NSA—and placing the images in the public domain.
What does a surveillance state look like?
Over the past eight months, classified documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden have exposed scores of secret government surveillance programs. Yet there is little visual material among the blizzard of code names, PowerPoint slides, court rulings and spreadsheets that have emerged from the National Security Agency’s files.
The scarcity of images is not surprising. A surveillance apparatus doesn’t really “look” like anything. A satellite built by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) reveals nothing of its function except to the best-trained eyes. The NSA’s pervasive domestic effort to collect telephone metadata also lacks easy visual representation; in the Snowden archive, it appears as a four-page classified order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Since June 2013, article after article about the NSA has been illustrated with a single image supplied by the agency, a photograph of its Fort Meade headquarters that appears to date from the 1970s.
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My Comment: These are all night-time shots, but what I find it interesting is that while the National Geospatial Intelligence office lights were all on (and the parking lot appeared to be full), the NSA and the Agency National Reconnaissance Office's were dark and their parking lots empty. now we know who burns the "midnight oil".
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