NSA whistleblower: They’re assembling information on every U.S. citizen!

by Always Right Posted 2012/07/15 15:18:25

Related Topics: 2001, Processed, Government, Nsa

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Binney, who resigned from the NSA in 2001 over its domestic surveillance program, had just delivered a keynote speech in which he revealed what Shively called “evidence which we have not seen until this point.”

“They’re pulling together all the data about virtually every U.S. citizen in the country … and assembling that information,” Binney explained. “So government is accumulating that kind of information about every individual person and it’s a very dangerous process.” He estimated that something like 1.6 billion logs have been processed since 2001.

Walt 2012/07/15 16:48:44

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An article I read a couple of years ago says they are gathering the equivalent of 12 filing cabinets worth of information on each of us every year. In order to reach that level of detail on me, they would have to transcribe every phone call I make to text and include every credit card purchase I make at the grocery store.

There's no good reason for them having this level of information on the citizens.

(Here's the article I mentioned: http://www.helium.com/items/1... )
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Adam 2012/07/17 02:36:08

Really only 1.6 billion. There has got to be more conversations than that in the span of a week.

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Patriot Unit 2012/07/17 00:02:16

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Was not Nixon doing the same thing? Look what happened to him.

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Always ... to Patriot... 2012/07/17 00:45:19

Gutless politicians won't stop this, because the NSA has the goods on them also.

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Angus 2012/07/16 11:25:28

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A good Dictator needs to keep a tab on his/ her citizens in order to crush any opposition. And that's exactly what Maobama is doing with this.

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Charles R. Anderson 2012/07/16 03:29:38

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Since the TSA keeps having studies done that claim that people who believe in sovereign individual rights and the Constitution are a threat to the hugely overblown federal government and I have written extensively on these themes on the Internet, I am sure I must have a very full NSA file. Of course such government as our Declaration of Independence defined as illegitimate and tyrannical would have a great need to ship me off to the Gulag.

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zebsmom 2012/07/16 03:25:54

So, which is scarier? Marketing companies or the government?

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Walt 2012/07/15 16:48:44

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An article I read a couple of years ago says they are gathering the equivalent of 12 filing cabinets worth of information on each of us every year. In order to reach that level of detail on me, they would have to transcribe every phone call I make to text and include every credit card purchase I make at the grocery store.

There's no good reason for them having this level of information on the citizens.

(Here's the article I mentioned: http://www.helium.com/items/1... )

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Always ... to Walt 2012/07/15 18:26:31

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Makes me wonder what are they(the government) going to do with this information.

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Walt to Always ... 2012/07/16 02:12:46

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The only application I can think of for it is domination and control. If that isn't the intent, the potential is there, but I think that is the intended goal.

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Cognito22 to Walt 2012/07/16 03:06:00

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Our office/den only has 2 filing cabinets of our own stuff.
They probably know more about me than I do myself. LOL

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