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When The NSA Comes To Town
Buzzfeed.com ^ | July 31, 2013 | Justine Sharrock

Posted on 08/02/2013 6:50:19 AM PDT by Daffynition

BLUFFDALE, Utah — “There is no data center here.”

Pete Ashdown and Grant Sperry, who run XMission, a small internet service provider, were in Utah’s National Guard’s Camp Williams. It is located across the street from the National Security Agency’s infamous Utah Data Center, which houses the massive server farms that power the agency’s sweeping digital surveillance operation; they had a rare invitation from the agency to tour the facility with a group of heads of other internet companies, professors, and politicians, and they were looking for parking. They could clearly see the 1 million-square-foot complex — in fact, anyone driving in the area, even on the main highway leading up to Salt Lake City, could spot the drab gray buildings. But here was a solider with an AR-15 telling them the center didn’t exist.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; US: Utah
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In case reading this gives you the {{{chills}}}...here's a cup 'o hot cocoa for ya. Marshmallows?


1 posted on 08/02/2013 6:50:19 AM PDT by Daffynition
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2 posted on 08/02/2013 6:52:26 AM PDT by Daffynition (Life's short- paddle hard!)
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To: Daffynition
The main reason the NSA chose Utah was because of its cheap electricity. It also has abundant water, immunity from most types of natural disasters, and abundant open land,

Abundant water? Yeah, Utah is a lush Garden of Eden environment.

Captain Renault: What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?

Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.

Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.

Rick: I was misinformed.

3 posted on 08/02/2013 7:04:14 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (This message has been recorded but not approved by Obama's StasiNet. Read it at your peril.)
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To: Daffynition
You better watch out
you better not type
you better not Google
I'm telling you why
The NSA is coming to town

They know when you're angry
they know how you vote
they know when you're FReeping
and when you built that moat

4 posted on 08/02/2013 7:13:58 AM PDT by BipolarBob
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To: KarlInOhio

The greatest lines from one of the greatest movies ever...


5 posted on 08/02/2013 7:16:27 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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6 posted on 08/02/2013 7:18:01 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: KarlInOhio
It's all about water… and fluoridation.
7 posted on 08/02/2013 7:44:15 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Daffynition; All
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8 posted on 08/02/2013 7:47:12 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: bigbob

9 posted on 08/02/2013 7:51:14 AM PDT by Daffynition (Life's short- paddle hard!)
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To: BipolarBob

10 posted on 08/02/2013 8:33:06 AM PDT by Daffynition (Life's short- paddle hard!)
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To: KarlInOhio
Excellent post!

Watching the watchers....what could possibly go wrong?


11 posted on 08/02/2013 8:36:08 AM PDT by Daffynition (Life's short- paddle hard!)
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To: Daffynition
Watching the watchers....what could possibly go wrong?

Fluoridation.

12 posted on 08/02/2013 8:47:21 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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