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NSA JUST ONE OF MANY AGENCIES SPYING ON AMERICANS
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7904.shtml
DOUG
THOMPSON, CAPITOL HILL BLUE - Spying on Americans by the
super-secret
National Security Agency is not only more widespread than
President George
W. Bush admits but is part of a concentrated,
government-wide effort to
gather and catalog information on U.S.
citizens, sources close to the
administration say. Besides the NSA, the
Pentagon, Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the Department of Homeland
Security and dozens of private
contractors are spying on millions of
Americans 24 hours a day, seven days a
week, 365 days a year. "It's a
total effort to build dossiers on as many
Americans as possible," says a
former NSA agent who quit in disgust over use
of the agency to spy on
Americans. "We're no longer in the business of
tracking our enemies.
We're spying on everyday Americans."
"It's
really obvious to me that it's a look-at-everything type program,"
says
cryptology expert Bruce Schneier. Schneier says he suspects that
the NSA is
turning its massive spy satellites inward on the United
States and
intentionally gathering vast streams of raw data from many
more people than
disclosed to date - potentially including all e-mails
and phone calls within
the United States. But the NSA spying is just the
tip of the
iceberg.
Although supposedly killed by Congress more than 18 months ago,
the
Defense Advance Project Research Agency's Terrorist Information
Awareness system, formerly called the "Total Information Awareness"
program, is alive and well and collecting data in real time on Americans
at a computer center located at 3801 Fairfax Drive in Arlington,
Virginia. . . "TIA builds a profile of every American who travels, has a
bank account, uses credit cards and has a credit record," says security
expert Allen Banks. "The profile establishes norms based on the person's
spending and travel habits. Then the system looks for patterns that
break from the norms, such of purchases of materials that are considered
likely for terrorist activity, travel to specific areas or a change in
spending habits.". . .
In her book Army Surveillance in America,
historian Joan M. Jensen
noted, "What began as a system to protect the
government from enemy
agents became a vast surveillance system to watch
civilians who violated
no law but who objected to wartime policies or to the
war itself." "It's
a fucking nightmare," says a congressional aide who
recently obtained
information on the program for his boss but asked not to
be identified
because he fears retaliation from the Bush administration.
"We're
collecting more information on Americans than on real enemies of our
country."
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