Posted on 06/06/2013 5:53:21 PM PDT by servo1969
UPDATE: Why Govt. Source leaked PRISM
Additional information is being reported that confirms what most of us have always suspected. NSA is collecting all our email data, tracking our movements, our photographs, our documents, etc. Also factor in the fact that a court recently ruled that Obama is free to collect our DNA without being found guilty of any crime.
National Security Agency (NSA) building designed for massive data collection in Utah:
WaPo reports the following:
The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time.
The highly classified program, code-named PRISM, has not been disclosed publicly before. Its establishment in 2007 and six years of exponential growth took place beneath the surface of a roiling debate over the boundaries of surveillance and privacy. Even late last year, when critics of the foreign intelligence statute argued for changes, the only members of Congress who knew about PRISM were bound by oaths of office to hold their tongues.
An internal presentation on the Silicon Valley operation, intended for senior analysts in the NSA’s Signals Intelligence Directorate, described the new tool as the most prolific contributor to the President’s Daily Brief, which cited PRISM data in 1,477 articles last year. According to the briefing slides, obtained by The Washington Post, “NSA reporting increasingly relies on PRISM” as its leading source of raw material, accounting for nearly 1 in 7 intelligence reports.
That is a remarkable figure in an agency that measures annual intake in the trillions of communications. It is all the more striking because the NSA, whose lawful mission is foreign intelligence, is reaching deep inside the machinery of American companies that host hundreds of millions of American-held accounts on American soil.
The technology companies, which participate knowingly in PRISM operations, include most of the dominant global players of Silicon Valley. They are listed on a roster that bears their logos in order of entry into the program: “Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple.” PalTalk, although much smaller, has hosted significant traffic during the Arab Spring and in the ongoing Syrian civil war.
Dropbox , the cloud storage and synchronization service, is described as “coming soon.” [...]
Read more here.
Note how there is a one-line mention of things to come from cloud storage. If you haven’t read this previous report on who is running the cloud, now would be a good time to review the links from this GatewayPundit article in connecting the dots, and the Obama appointees behind the cloud.
UPDATE: Politico reports the following:
Why did a government source leak information of this program, dubbed “PRISM,” to the Post? What follows is perhaps the most chilling paragraph I’ve read to date about U.S. government surveillance:
Firsthand experience with these systems, and horror at their capabilities, is what drove a career intelligence officer to provide PowerPoint slides about PRISM and supporting materials to The Washington Post in order to expose what he believes to be a gross intrusion on privacy. “They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type,” the officer said.
In the wake of last night’s Guardian report about the NSA’s collection of Verizon phone user metadata, the New York Times editorial board argued that the Obama administration “has now lost all credibility” in defending its abuses of executive power. That was before the report about PRISM, which unlike the Verizon metadata, includes surveillance of user content.
“‘They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type,’ the officer said.” [...]
Read more here.
5.56mm
It’s just getting worse and worse. it’s wonder the citizens havent marched on DC yet.
ping!
The political implications are terrifying.
Combine that with the fact that Eric Holder wouldn’t answer when asked if info was being collected on congress.
Dig up the articles of Bammy courting Silicone Valley. Remember that? They support his agenda. Fascists one and all.
But I thought the war on terror was over.
The problem is that these programs have a tendency to creep. I the hands of patriotic leaders it is a powerful tool to be used wisely.
In the hands of an ideologue with delusions of grandeur ???
I couldn’t agree with you more.
I am not a paranoid sorta guy, but this has me a bit nervous.
The surveillance network is a sick joke. It didn’t catch the Boston bombers with the Russians telling us about them. The father of the underwear bomber was warning us. The father of the American woman killed in Syria says he tried warning the feds that there was going to be trouble.
I wonder how many millions or billions of dollars are going down that constitution shredder of a hole.
THIS is what you *need* to see.
Docu-fiction from 2006. It has probably not been widely shown in the us.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427461/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlVK906Xzr8
Neither am I and this scares the crap out of me
“It’s just getting worse and worse. it’s wonder the citizens havent marched on DC yet.”
I’m ready!!!!
You mistake deliberate lack of action with bumbling incompetence. How many people in these agencies SUPPORTED the bombers and their motives?
Terror’s war on YOU, however, is never over.
Obama - Building a Religion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xtNr5-up0U
This is how they explain it.....
“If you did nothing wrong you have nothing to worry about”
So thought the Jews in Poland and the Branch Davidians children in Waco.
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