Posted on 04/14/2013 10:38:45 AM PDT by null and void
The Utah Data Center is a facility for the intelligence community that will have a major focus on cyber security.
Asked if the Data Center would hold the data of American citizens, Alexander said, "No...we don't hold data on U.S. citizens," adding that the NSA staff "take protecting your civil liberties and privacy as the most important thing that they do, "
Thomas Drake who worked at the NSA says Americans should be concerned about letting the government go too far in the name of security.
The only way you can have perfect security is have a perfect surveillance state. That's George Orwell. That's 1984. That's what that would look like."
"It's really a-- turnkey situation, where it could be turned quickly and become a totalitarian state pretty quickly," he said. "The capacities to do that is being set up. Now it's a question of if we get the wrong person in office, or if certain people set up their network internally in government, they could make that happen quickly."
Because the Utah Data Center is a "secure facility" and you cannot go inside without the needed security clearances, Fox News rented a helicopter and took to the skies, where the depth and breadth of the Utah Center were stunning.
Two weeks after our filming, the helicopter pilot reported to our Fox News team that he had been visited by the FBI on a "national security matter."
The pilot said, according to the FBI agents, that the NSA had taken photos of the helicopter once it made several flyovers. These photos allowed the NSA to identify the make and manufacturer of the helicopter in California who, in turn, told the NSA who operates it in the Salt Lake City area.
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Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
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A DC was installed in UK to get around Constitutional rights of monitoring data and voice communications so this is just in your face stuff. It already exists.
“the NSA staff “take protecting your civil liberties and privacy as the most important thing that they do, “
LOL
Can they even keep a straight face while saying that??
So the NSA sent the FBI or did the FBI inform the NSA what they were going to do? Guess it doesn't matter 'cause we're supposed to just shut up and eat our peas. Yeah, they're really concerned about our privacy. Will watch tonight. Thanks null and void.
“Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!”
Would you call the present police state we live a “Nut-job Conspiracy Theory”?
Ping
It was a given that the spooks would have every last bit of info on the helicopter, pilot and passengers down to when they last clipped their toe nails. The thing here is they made the extra step in knocking on doors to scare people.
Nope. Far from it.
The name of the ping list dates back to:
As such it is similar to a theory of cosmic origin scornfully being named by a detractor as the so-called "The Big Bang Theory".Dont ping me with your nutjob conspiracy theories or Ill report you to the admin.
We wear the nut-job monicker as something of a badge of honor, and a poke in the eye to the willfully obtuse.
not saying stuck_in_new_orleans is one of them, but he/she has the distinction of providing the name...
Please add me to the ping list, thanks!
You call spying on EVERYBODY’S email, phone conversations, texts, credit card transactions, plane ticket purchases, cell phone movements, bank transactions, foreign travel, and even lemonade stand transactions a conspiracy?
DO YOU REALLY TRUST THIS GOVERNMENT? REALLY?
I’d like to sell you some beach front real estate in Arizona.
You call spying on EVERYBODY’S email, phone conversations, texts, credit card transactions, plane ticket purchases, cell phone movements, bank transactions, foreign travel, and even lemonade stand transactions a conspiracy?
DO YOU REALLY TRUST THIS GOVERNMENT? REALLY?
I’d like to sell you some beach front real estate in Arizona.
“We wear the nut-job monicker as something of a badge of honor, and a poke in the eye to the willfully obtuse.”
Ah, I guess that puts me well into the Nutjob camp then. Sorry for being so obtuse. :)
Just bear in mind that if you wish to be added to the NJCT Ping list, you have to threaten to report him to the mods if you're not added.
Thanks for the Ping, Nully.
No.
To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I dont add you to the list...
Oops. See #16 for domo.
Yes. It’s not immediately obvious, is it?
unixfox should catch up any minute now...
DO YOU REALLY TRUST THIS GOVERNMENT? REALLY?
No. You probably ought to threaten to report Nully to the mod so you can get on a ping list with like-minded FReepers.
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