Bingo! Remember that 'secret' think tank the 0bama campaign set up to data mine voter data? That was nothing more than the NSA working under cover of the 0bama campaign, and the reason it was held a close secret had nothing to do with Romney finding out about it. More likely, it was an active NSA hub. Fox news did a feature story on this so-called Obama campaign team.
Also, remember Romney's 'real time' voter data computer program called Orca? Who killed it? Hmmmmmmmm!!!!
Orca failed because it was buggy software. And it was buggy because instead of spending money on it, they tried to do it on the cheap, with volunteers and campaign staffers writing code instead of paying professionals.
I have emailed Newt about this idea. He didn’t respond, but I am sure it hit home. This is something like what I wrote:
Let’s say that all phone conversations are digitally stored until voice recognition software can put them into text. The storage of text takes little storage space and allows for huge amounts of text to be stored. They say that storage space is growing exponentially. With the phone tree architecture that Snowden described, you can organize the text according to rings of influence. You then have quite a powerful system.
Lets say you have a political campaign and want to ID those who would be your grass roots. With software, you can worm through a few years worth of text and find those friendly to your campaign. It would be as easy as doing a Google search. Then, because you have access to all the phone numbers, you could robocall your grassroots for support. Phones would get texts saying dial this number and donate. You see the power such an intelligence tool would have in the hands of an unethical person like Zer0 in power?
Let’s say you want to take out a political opponent by finding something embarrassing about them. That would be easy. You have the text of all their phone conversations. God help them if they dialed for a sex escort or asked where they could score some crack. You see the power such an intelligence tool would have to take out the opposition?
In the hands of the thugs we see working in the Zer0 Syndicate, the NSA could take out political enemies as easy as it did Paula Deen. And, there would be zero political accountability for doing it because the operation of the NSA is top secret. No one can crack into the workings of the NSA because it is inaccessible.