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National Security and Fbi tapping in!!

Ironbuilt

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NSA and FBi are now using a a program called "PRISM" to tap into 9 leading U.S.internet companies, extracting audio video chat , photos,emails,documents ,and connection logs that enable analysts to track one target or a whole network of associates.. see yettys are smart and
I don't know what all this means but porns legal.
 

tripletotal

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NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program - The Washington Post

NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program
Published: June 6, 2013

Through a top-secret program authorized by federal judges working under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the U.S. intelligence community can gain access to the servers of nine Internet companies for a wide range of digital data. Documents describing the previously undisclosed program, obtained by The Washington Post, show the breadth of U.S. electronic surveillance capabilities in the wake of a widely publicized controversy over warrantless wiretapping of U.S. domestic telephone communications in 2005. These slides, annotated by The Washington Post, represent a selection from the overall document, and certain portions are redacted.

A slide briefing analysts at the National Security Agency about the program touts its effectiveness and features the logos of the companies involved.

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Monitoring a target's communication

This diagram shows how the bulk of the world’s electronic communications move through companies based in the United States.

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Providers and data

The PRISM program collects a wide range of data from the nine companies, although the details vary by provider.

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Participating providers


This slide shows when each company joined the program, with Microsoft being the first, on Sept. 11, 2007, and Apple the most recent, in October 2012.

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NSA leak: Source believes exposure, consequences inevitable - YouTube
 

AnaSCI

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The Fourth Amendment:

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

This Amendment is no longer ours!!
 

tripletotal

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I think the gov'ment edited my post...all I put up was that initial washington post link, now I've got the whole thing fully displayed with an extra link to a video!

Creepy!

TT
 

AnaSCI

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I think the gov'ment edited my post...all I put up was that initial washington post link, now I've got the whole thing fully displayed with an extra link to a video!

Creepy!

TT

I did that:p

So that everyone wanting to read and join in the conversation did not have to go off page to read up on things:)
 

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This has been going on for a long time, nothing new. Just image what other things are going on during their "classified" hearings that we do not know about.

The only reason this was brought back to light is because someone leaked the info. They will tighten up clearance and make sure that things like that are few and far between!
 

Ironbuilt

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Thanks triple and Anasci for posting link ..that is something I did not know..lol
Love how triple got a scare on the edit by Anasci.. I saw that and thought " Whoa".ib
 

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I was listening to the radio this morning-

They had the guy who designed and engineered this entire system years ago for the NSA- he had been working for them for over 18 years and was talking about his personal feeling on the issue.

He said he feels like the creator of the atom bomb- he wished he had never done it.
 

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'I will be made to suffer for my actions': Self-identified source for NSA leaks comes forward - U.S. News

'I will be made to suffer for my actions': Self-identified source for NSA leaks comes forward

A 29-year-old former CIA technical assistant revealed in the British newspaper The Guardian on Sunday that he is the source who leaked information about vast National Security Agency surveillance programs collecting data about American citizens and foreigners.

Edward Snowden, who works for defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, told The Guardian that he knows there will punishment for exposing the classified information, but said he could not in good conscience “allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, Internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.”
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Following the report, the office of James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said it was “currently reviewing the damage that has been done by these recent disclosures” and referred any further comment to the Justice Department.

A Justice Department statement went no further than acknowledging it is in the initial stages of an investigation.

Booz Allen Hamilton confirmed that Snowden worked there less than three months. The firm called the news reports "shocking" and said it would work closely with authorities during the investigation.

The Guardian reported last week that the Obama administration had been collecting Verizon customers’ phone records in the U.S. Shortly after, The Washington Post reported on a massive NSA program called PRISM, a surveillance program that gathered vast amounts of information about foreigners abroad from the world’s largest web services.

The disclosures led President Barack Obama to declare: “Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.” Late last week, the president defended the programs and said Americans must understand that there are “some tradeoffs” between privacy concerns and keeping Americans safe.

The Post also identified Snowden as the source of its information on Sunday.

Snowden told The Guardian, "I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions," but "I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant."

The self-identified source of documents and information pertaining to government data collection program said he has been hiding in a hotel room in Hong Kong since divulging the government secrets. For the past three weeks he has only left his room three times and fears he is being spied on, he told the newspaper.

Rep. Peter King, chair of the House Homeland Security subcommittee and a member of the Intelligence Committee, made the first public declaration to prosecute Snowden hours after he revealed himself.

"If Edward Snowden did in fact leak the NSA data as he claims, the United States government must prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law and begin extradition proceedings at the earliest date,” the New York Republican said in a statement. “The United States must make it clear that no country should be granting this individual asylum. This is a matter of extraordinary consequence to American intelligence."

Snowden grew up in Elizabeth City, N.C., later moving with his family to Maryland, according to The Guardian. Though he struggled in school, Snowden had a knack for computing, which would ultimately open the door for his access to highly sensitive information, the newspaper reported.

Snowden earned a GED but never graduated from college. In 2003, he enlisted in the U.S. Army with the hopes of joining the Special Forces, but broke both legs in a training accident and was discharged. He told the paper that he joined the armed forces in hopes of helping the Iraqi people escape from oppression, but was jarred that his commanders “seemed pumped up about killing Arabs.”

After his injury, Snowden got a job as a security guard at a covert NSA facility at the University of Maryland, The Guardian reported. That led to a job working on IT security for the CIA.
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It was in 2007, when the CIA stationed Snowden in Geneva, Switzerland that he began to question the techniques used by the U.S. government to gather intelligence.

"Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world," he told the newspaper.

Snowden left the CIA in 2009, but got a job working for a private contractor that stationed him on a military base in Japan to work at an NSA facility. He said that his exposure and access to the sweeping information collection efforts by the government, along with his belief that Obama continued the invasive programs that he campaigned to end, hardened him to the national security efforts that was working to advance.

That’s why, Snowden says, three weeks ago he discreetly packed up some of his belongings and left the home in Hawaii where he was living with his girlfriend to get on a plane headed for China. Once there, he gave the information had collected to journalists he trusted, according to his interview with The Guardian. Snowden said he “carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in the public interest."

Snowden said he has been pleased so far with the fallout from making the information public, and has no regrets.

"You can't wait around for someone else to act," he said. "I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act."
 

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Just shows you how little the US is respected now with the amount of assistance (or lack there of) they are receiving from other countries in an effort to get this guy back to the US.

Now they are resorting to more bullying tactics with threatening Ecuador to cut off trading and aid with them if they decide to harbor Snowden. Yet they make this statement:

"We are not at the point where we are making threats yet," the official said. "We are reserving the harder line until they know for sure whether the Ecuadorians are willing to take him in."

Shows you how pathetic the US government truly is and why they deserve nor receive respect from the rest of the world any longer!

Snowden must have some pretty good info left with him and his affiliates for the US to place themselves in the fire like they are doing!
 

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Just shows you how little the US is respected now with the amount of assistance (or lack there of) they are receiving from other countries in an effort to get this guy back to the US.

Now they are resorting to more bullying tactics with threatening Ecuador to cut off trading and aid with them if they decide to harbor Snowden. Yet they make this statement:



Shows you how pathetic the US government truly is and why they deserve nor receive respect from the rest of the world any longer!

Snowden must have some pretty good info left with him and his affiliates for the US to place themselves in the fire like they are doing!

Im sure he has a lot more for them to want him back that bad! And yeah they think bullying is the key to everything.. :banghead:
 

AnaSCI

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Looks like another piece of info has been dropped. Noticed this on MSN this morning and a few hours later it was removed without a trace. Had to search it out on CNN:

Europe Union 'shocked' by report of U.S. spying, German newspaper Der Spiegel report bugs used

Europe Union 'shocked' by report of U.S. spying, German newspaper Der Spiegel report bugs used

CNN) -- European officials reacted with fury Sunday after a report that the U.S. National Security Agency spied on EU offices.

The European Union warned that if the report is accurate, it will have tremendous repercussions.

"I am deeply worried and shocked about the allegations," European Parliament President Martin Schulz said in a statement. "If the allegations prove to be true, it would be an extremely serious matter which will have a severe impact on EU-US relations. On behalf of the European Parliament, I demand full clarification and require further information speedily from the U.S. authorities with regard to these allegations."

German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger "said if the accusations were true it was reminiscent of the Cold War," ministry spokesman Anders Mertzlufft said, adding that the minister "has asked for an immediate explanation from the United States."

The German newspaper Der Spiegel reported that "the U.S. placed bugs in the EU representation in Washington and infiltrated its computer network. Cyberattacks were also perpetrated against Brussels in New York and Washington."

The information came from secret documents obtained by Edward Snowden, which the paper "has in part seen," according to the report. "A 'top secret' 2010 document describes how the secret service attacked the EU's diplomatic representation in Washington."

Ben Rhodes, White House deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, said he had not seen the report and "would not comment on unauthorized disclosures of intelligence programs. The intelligence community would be the most appropriate to do that."

Rhodes added that "those are some of our closest intelligence partners, so it's worth noting that the Europeans work very closely with us. We have very close intelligence relationships with them."

U.S. intelligence officials have not responded immediately to the report.

European Union spokeswoman Marlene Holzner, in a e-mail to CNN, said, "We have immediately been in contact with the U.S. authorities in Washington DC and in Brussels and have confronted them with the press reports. They have told us they are checking on the accuracy of the information released yesterday and will come back to us."

Snowden, who has acknowledged leaking classified documents, is in Russia and seeking asylum in Ecuador.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden asked Ecuador "to please reject" the request for asylum, according to Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said, "The sooner he selects his final destination point, the better both for us and for himself."

A top Russian lawmaker said Sunday that Russia must not hand Snowden over to the United States.

"It's not a matter of Snowden's usefulness to Russia, it's a matter of principle," Alexei Pushkov -- who heads the international affairs committee at the Duma, the lower house of parliament -- said on Twitter.

"He is a political refugee and handing him over is morally unacceptable," he said.
 

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Just shows you how little the US is respected now with the amount of assistance (or lack there of) they are receiving from other countries in an effort to get this guy back to the US.

Now they are resorting to more bullying tactics with threatening Ecuador to cut off trading and aid with them if they decide to harbor Snowden. Yet they make this statement:

Shows you how pathetic the US government truly is and why they deserve nor receive respect from the rest of the world any longer!

Snowden must have some pretty good info left with him and his affiliates for the US to place themselves in the fire like they are doing!

Looks like Ecuador is not having any part of the threats:

Ecuador is turning down trade benefits given by the United States as part of the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act, Ecuadorian officials said.

On Thursday, Correa gave a fiery speech.

"In the face of threats, insolence and arrogance of certain U.S. sectors, which have pressured to remove the preferential tariffs because of the Snowden case, Ecuador tells the world we unilaterally and irrevocably renounce the preferential tariffs," Correa said. "It is outrageous to try to delegitimize a state for receiving a petition of asylum."