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Dr. Eowyn posted: " You know that saying that even the paranoid
sometimes are right? 14 months ago, on March 19, 2012, I wrote a post
"2013: The end of privacy in America," about the construction of a heavily
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You know that saying that even the paranoid sometimes are right?
14 months ago, on March 19, 2012, I wrote a post "2013: The end of privacy
in
America<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/2013-big-brother-the-end-of-privacy-in-america/>,"
about the construction of a heavily fortified $2 billion Data Center in
Utah, by the National Security Agency, in which the federal government will
store (and analyze) your every email, cell phone call, Google search,
parking receipt, credit card purchases, and more. The construction was
expected to be completed by September of this year, but it looks like the
Data Center is already up and running.
For several years, two Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee, *Senator
Ron Wyden of Oregon and Senator Mark Udall of Colorado*, have been
cryptically warning that the Obama regime was interpreting its surveillance
powers under the Patriot Act in a way that would be alarming to the public
if we knew about it.
Last year in a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder
Jr<https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/325953-85512347-senators-ron-wyden-mark-udall-letter-to.html>.,
Wyden and Udall wrote: “We believe most Americans would be stunned to learn
the details of how these secret court opinions have interpreted *Section
215 of the Patriot Act*. As we see it, there is now a significant gap
between what most Americans think the law allows and what the government
secretly claims the law allows. This is a problem, because it is impossible
to have an informed public debate about what the law should say when the
public doesn’t know what its government thinks the law says.”
The American people are now finding out to what the two senators were
cryptically referring.
Charlie Savage and Edward Wyatt
report<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/us/us-secretly-collecting-logs-of-business-calls.html?hp&_r=1&;>for
the
*New York Times*, June 5, 2013, that, using a hotly debated section of
the Patriot
Act<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/u/usa_patriot_act/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>--
the supposed anti-terrorist legislation that first became law in the
George W. Bush administration, then not just continued but expanded by the
Pres. Lucifer -- *the Obama regime is secretly collecting every overseas,
domestic and local phone call and email (called "metadata") logged by
Verizon Business Network Services (VBNS). *Verizon Business is one of
America's largest telecommunications and Internet providers for
corporations.
This discovery was disclosed yesterday by the UK paper, *The
Guardian<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order>
*, contained in a highly classified court
order<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/verizon-telephone-data-court-order>,
signed in April by *Judge Roger Vinson* of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court. Vinson's order directs a Verizon
Communications<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/verizon_communications_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org>subsidiary,
VBNS, to turn over “on an ongoing daily basis” to the National
Security
Agency<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/national_security_agency/index.html?inline=nyt-org>(NSA)
all call logs “between the United States and abroad” or “wholly
within the United States, including local telephone calls.”
The FBI had asked for the court order under a section of the *Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act*, the 1978 law that regulates domestic
surveillance for national security purposes, allowing the government to
secretly obtain “tangible things” like a business’s customer records. The
provision was expanded by Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which Congress
enacted after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Section 215 makes it easier to
get an order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to obtain
business records so long as they were merely deemed “relevant” to a
national-security investigation.
The order was marked “TOP SECRET//SI//NOFORN,” referring to
communications-related intelligence information that may not be released to
noncitizens. That would make it among the most closely held secrets in the
federal government. The collection of call logs is set to expire in July
unless the court extends it.
*Judge Vinson's order does not apply to the content of the communications*,
which means it's a blanket order, instead of one that specifically targets
only communications containing Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) "trigger
words <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/dhs-trigger-words/>".
(For a list of those words, see our LTG's post of May 27, 2012, "DHS
Trigger
Words?<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/dhs-trigger-words/>
".)
*It is not clear whether similar orders have gone to other parts of
Verizon, like its residential or cellphone services, or to other
telecommunications carriers. The order prohibits its recipient from
discussing its existence, and representatives of both Verizon and AT&T
declined to comment *Wednesday evening.
Obama administration officials at the F.B.I. and the White House also
declined to comment on it Wednesday evening, but did not deny the report,
and a person familiar with the order confirmed its authenticity. “We will
respond as soon as we can,” said NSA spokeswoman *Marci Green Miller* in an
e-mail.
*Kate Martin* of the Center for National Security Studies, a civil
liberties advocacy group, said that “absent some explanation I haven’t
thought of, this looks like the largest assault on privacy since the N.S.A.
wiretapped Americans in clear violation of the law [under the Bush
administration]. On what possible basis has the government refused to tell
us that it believes that the law authorizes this kind of request?”
Even more alarming, Andy Greenberg
reports<http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/05/nsas-verizon-spying-order-specifically-targeted-americans-not-foreigners/>for
Forbes, June 5, 2013, that although the NSA has long justified its
spying powers by arguing that its charter allows surveillance on those
outside of the United States, while avoiding intrusions into the private
communications of American citizens, *the Obama regime's spying order to
Verizon specifically targets Americans, instead of foreigners.*
It gets worse.
Elspeth Reeve
reports<http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/06/nsa-spying-verizon-analysis/65963/>for
the
*Atlantic Wire* that the NSA's surveillance of our communications is most
likely much, much bigger than that. Technology has made it possible for the
American government to spy on citizens to an extent East Germany could only
dream of. Basically *everything we say that can be traced digitally* is being
collected<http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2013/06/twitters-jaded-reaction-nsas-phone-records-collection-program/65951/>
by
the NSA.
Previous reporting from many outlets suggests that's true. In 2006, *USA
Today*'s Leslie
Cauley<http://yahoo.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm>reported
the NSA was secretly collecting call records with data from AT&T,
Verizon, and BellSouth. A source told Cauley, "It's the largest database
ever assembled in the world" and that the NSA wanted "to create a database
of every call ever made" within U.S. territory. Likewise, in 2011, *The New
Yorker*'s Jane
Mayer<http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/23/110523fa_fact_mayer>spoke
to former
*NSA *crypto-mathematician Bill Binney, who "believes that the agency
now *stores
copies of all e-mails transmitted in America*, in case the government wants
to retrieve the details later." He thinks the NSA wants all emails to be
searchable, the same way we search with Google. "The agency reportedly has
the capacity to intercept and download, every six hours, electronic
communications equivalent to the contents of the Library of Congress,"
Mayer said.
And *the NSA* isn't just collecting the things we say. It's* also tracking
what we buy and where we go.* In 2008, *The Wall Street Journal*'s Siobhan
Gorman <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120511973377523845.html> reported
that the NSA's domestic data collection "have evolved to reach more broadly
into data about people's communications, travel and finances in the U.S.
than the domestic surveillance programs brought to light since the 2001
terrorist attacks." *That means emails records, bank transfers, phone
records, travel records.*
See also:
- Look Who's Defending the NSA in
Washington<http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/06/nsa-phone-records-reactions-washington/65973/>
- Eric Holder Got Off Really Easy at His First Post-Verizon
Hearing<http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/06/eric-holder-senate-appropriations-committee-hearing/65975/>
- Exactly Who to Blame in Congress for OK'ing Government
Spying<http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/06/congress-government-spying-votes-charts/65969/>
- Obama Administration Defends Right to Take Phone
Records<http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/06/obama-administration-verizon-phone-records/65954/>
~Eowyn
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