Government ‘Shut Down’ Doesn’t Prevent Opening of $2 Billion NSA Spy Center
Snooping on Americans; business as
usual
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
October 1, 2013
Infowars.com
October 1, 2013
The so-called “government shut down” and the
furloughing of thousands of non-essential federal employees has not prevented
the opening of a $2 billion NSA spy center in Utah which will snoop on
Americans’ private emails, Google searches and phone calls.
Image: NSA Spy Center, Utah.
As we highlighted yesterday, the shut down will only
affect the tiny amount of services government provides that Americans actually
like.
Rest assured, TSA grope downs, VIPR checkpoints,
drone attacks, SWAT team raids, tax collection, torturing terrorists at
Guantanamo Bay, arming jihadists in Syria and running guns to Mexican drug
dealers will all continue unimpeded – as will NSA domestic spying.
Although the NSA itself refuses to confirm it, to all
intents and purposes the agency’s mammoth new spy center in Bluffdale, Utah “may
be open already,” according to the Denver Post.
“The facility is expected this fall to quietly begin
sucking in massive amounts of information for the intelligence community and
storing it in the cavernous buildings in Bluffdale, Utah, according to NSA
officials — and it could be open now even as the agency faces scrutiny over
efforts to collect data on Americans domestically,” writes Thomas
Burr.
An NSA spokesperson said back in July that the center would be open
by the “end of the fiscal year,” i.e., the end of September. The fact that
lawmakers have failed to agree on legislation that will fund the government from
today onwards isn’t an issue for the agency.
NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines also recently
acknowledged that the center, which covers 1 million square feet of space, is
ready for each machine to be switched on. The center will hold 1 trillion
terabytes of data. To put that in context, all of the books ever written in any
language would need just 400 terabytes.
The facility is set to collect “complete contents of
private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of
personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases,
and other digital “pocket litter,” according to Wired.
It will be filled with supercomputers that can run
one thousand trillion calculations per second as part of a data mining process
that seeks to identify suspects “before they commit a crime or associate with
terror suspects,” state of the art pre-crime technology that puts the movie
Minority Report to shame.
While the center itself will not analyze the data (it
only has 200 employees), the information will be scrutinized “at other federal
facilities by personnel [useless parasites who don’t have a life and should get
a real job] who can remotely access the information stored in Bluffdale,”
reports the Salt Lake Tribune.
The NSA “has broken privacy rules or overstepped its
legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency
broad new powers in 2008,” according to a recent Washington Post report.
The most recent example of domestic snooping emerged
only yesterday, when it was reported that the NSA, “is storing the
online metadata of millions of internet users for up to a year, regardless of
whether or not they are persons of interest to the agency.” The New York Times also reported that the NSA was
exploiting such data to create, “sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social
connections that can identify their associates, their locations at certain
times, their traveling companions and other personal information.”
This year’s series of revelations about the NSA’s
corrupt practices on behalf of whistleblower Edward Snowden did not prompt the
federal agency to become more transparent about its activities in
Bluffdale.
Forget visiting the facility, despite your tax
dollars paying for it, you’re not even allowed to drive into the car park. Even
local officials were barred from a ceremony earlier this year to mark the
project’s completion. Reporters were also not welcome.
“A few Utah dignitaries have received tours. Most of
them have been reticent to discuss what they saw there,” reports the Salt Lake Tribune.
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posted: Tuesday, October 1, 2013 at 6:00 am
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