NSA Whistleblower Ed Snowden: From My Desk I Could Wiretap Anyone: You, A Federal Judge Or The President Of The US
from the well-that's-comforting dept
Yesterday, it was revealed that Ed Snowden was the whistleblower, who exposed some details of NSA surveillance capabilities, often going far beyond what people expected. If you haven't yet, you should watch his video interview with Glenn Greenwald where he goes into more detail:"I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you, or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President if I had a personal email.The wording here is a little unclear, since "wiretap" generally means capturing voice conversations, but saying that he would need a personal email address from the President to wiretap him suggests he's talking specifically about access their emails. Either way, given that we keep being told that the NSA is only supposed to cover non-US persons, the fact that a 29-year-old computer guy working for the NSA claims he could get access to anyone's email just by having their email address suggests, certainly, that there isn't much (if any) oversight, and the NSA is clearly not careful about the data it's scooping up.
Later in the interview, he explains why the people who say "I don't care, because I've got nothing to hide" are complete and total idiots:
"Because even if you're not doing anything wrong, you're being watched and recorded. And the storage capability of these systems increases every year consistently by orders of magnitude to where it's getting to the point where you don't have to have done anything wrong, you simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody, even by a wrong call. And then they can use the system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you've ever made. Every friend you've ever discussed something with. And attack you on that basis, to derive suspicion from an innocent life, and paint anyone in the context of a wrongdoer."There's a lot more in the interview, which is absolutely worth watching. No one ever got to hear Bradley Manning speak before he got whisked away. Ed Snowden appears to have put a lot more thought and planning into what he was doing than Manning, and here we actually get to hear his thoughts.
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It is also about a certain culture that had been slave since ancient Egypt.
www.wavevolution.org
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Response to: Simon on Jun 10th, 2013 @ 3:08am
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Who defines a "criminal"? What prevents for instance my religion from being declared illegal in the future?
And even if it is something I could stop doing, what prevents it from being declared illegal retroactively?
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Because Terrorism!TM
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William Hague is correct!!!
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Well if the government isn't doing anything wrong, it shouldn't fear the public finding out what it's doing.
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And we'll wonder where are the Snowdens of yesteryear
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Response to: Anonymous Coward on Jun 10th, 2013 @ 3:11am
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Is that a boiler plate anti-takedown statement, or what content are they talking about being copyrighted?
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They want to push the focus to the messenger rather than the message.
It was nice to see Mike Rodgers droning on about how this is going to hurt us and we need to prosecute him, yet he was less forthcoming about how much money his support of the spy games earns for his wife and employer.
They are now pulling out the he had an oath to not do this... I'd like to hear the answer to how their oath to defend the constitution doesn't seem to apply.
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traitor or hero?
This weekend a lot of talking heads from congress and various administrations have said he took an oath. The same kind of oath they took themselves yet seem to violate when it's convenient.
I guess I disagree with how he went public yet I fully understand. This was the dark secret we all knew about but once it became open knowledge we will look at our government differently. Hopefully the dialog will be about how our government is running amok and not about the leak.
And for Snowden, I hope he was smart enough to keep some secrets in a safe place to be exposed only if something happens to him.
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It's time to recognize that the "proper channels" are severely limited and do nothing for the people showing and exposing the corrupting behavior.
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Was this meant to be sarcastic? The US government has been prosecuting whistleblowers more than ever for the past few years. The president already said that this has been detrimental to the security of the country. Clearly, emailing or calling someone would not do anything except alert the people tapping all of the phone calls and emails being sent.
Every "legal" channel he had available was being run by the people he was blowing the whistle on. What he did was courageous and will probably land him in jail or at least exiled from his country for the remainder of his life.
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I wish we still had a government that functioned for the betterment of the people but I fear those days are gone forever. When there are no proper channels to effect change it really limits what we can do and the alternatives are scary.
I realize I no longer have rights and my elected representatives don't listen to me. What options are left for us to create change?
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When there are no proper channels to effect change it really limits what we can do
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Re: traitor or hero?
I guess you haven't been paying attention then:
http://news.yahoo.com/irs-under-political-fire-must-help-overhaul-u-194455318.html
"On May 15, Obama fired acting Commissioner Steve Miller after Cincinnati IRS agents applied extra scrutiny to tax-exempt status applications from groups with words such as 'Tea Party' in their names. Miller was replaced by White House budget official, Danny Werfel.
On Wednesday the IRS suspended Fred Schindler, director of oversight for implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Congressional sources said Schindler faces allegations that he accepted free gifts and food at a costly 2010 IRS conference in California."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/24/us/politics/irs-official-who-refused-to-testify-is -put-on-leave.html?_r=0
"Lois Lerner, the head of the Internal Revenue Service’s division on tax-exempt organizations, was put on administrative leave Thursday, a day after she invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to testify before a House committee investigating her division’s targeting of conservative groups.
Lawmakers from both parties said Thursday that senior I.R.S. officials had requested Ms. Lerner’s resignation but that she refused, forcing them to put her on leave instead. Whether her suspension will lead to dismissal was unclear, given Civil Service rules that govern federal employment."
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BEWARE OF GEEKS BEARING GIFTS.
Reading that Snowden was in Special Forces and since at CIA and NSA (rising quickly) makes me uneasy because increases the odds that he's STILL actively working for those. Even if he genuinely thinks he's got the goods, it can still be a psyop. -- Just as Dan Rather at CBS was fed forged documents that had TRUE facts on them, then Rather was taken down as having fallen for it! -- His info could be absolutely true, but it can still be a meta-psyop that eventually discredits any more such leaks. Remember, Big Brother always has to have an internal enemy, a Goldstein character, to create yet more need for its surveillance.
Americans are desperate for heroes these days, and the conspirators could easily give them one of their choosing rather than leave that to chance. The better this "millenial" seems in saying what I want to hear, the more doubts I have. Just keep it in mind, kids.
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Clarification about personal email
Now, you probably created your facebook in 2006/7 with one of these emails so he has that. Your facebook, primary and secondary emails pretty much tie you to everything you do online. He doesn't have to even look through the contents of your emails. Your amazon, ebay purchases, what you google, what sites you register to, what comments and posts you make on those websites, every single thing you bought online, every message you sent on Facebook, every skype call, everything, you name it. He didn't even have to read your emails to get that access. Which he will. And he'll look at your passwords on Facebook and emails and because he knows that most people use the same passwords for everything, he's got you.
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Snowden
To prove that he is a complete liar, let's take a look at his email and phone records for the past 15 years. Look at all of these places where he was lying! Oh, and look at his porn habits! Clearly this guy is making all of this up.
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It did require the system to pull and flag the last 15 years of email and phone records for anyone with the name Snowden as well as any email and phone records for me. That kind of processing takes time.
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That the NSA does this was well established long before Snowden came around, from numerous people ranging from techs who installed and maintained the equipment, through senators accidentally speaking out of class, to people working at various law enforcements agencies.
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You are a bit naive, and mistaken. Read this:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/
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hero or traitor?
http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2013/06/was-he-right-to-speak-out-edward-snowden-former-cia -operative-whistle-blower-now-on-the-run/
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Response to: JoeBourgeois on Jun 10th, 2013 @ 6:13am
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This won't help Microsoft any...
You have to wonder about the timing of all this, though...
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"president's personal email"
I took this to mean 'I could even wiretap the president if *he* had a personal email address'.
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Re: "president's personal email"
There is a sea of information out there. Even if he has all the information, he still needs a general idea of where to look. He's probably not just going to type POTUS into his search field and come up with Obama's email.
For example my name is Chris Mills irl. Pretty generic right? Even if he knew I lived around Niagara Falls, he still needs more info. I'm sure he could just start typing in chrismills1, 2, 3 @hotmail.com and so on and get into those accounts, but that's not enough to determine which Chris Mills it really is. With enough information he could cross reference and eventually find out, but that would still require going through a shit ton of data. Getting my email from a reliable source could allow him to skip all of that.
That's my understanding at least.
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He will enter Chris Mills in Western New York and he will get everything associated with that name along with IP addresses. He will then find the addresses that come from the Niagara Falls area and will filter for those. He will then figure out who your wife and kids are and add them to the search, everybody on that IP address.
Then, he will get all the accounts ever accessed by that IP address and then add all the IP addresses that were used to access those accounts. Then he will get the phone numbers associated with those IP addresses if you ever used your phone to log into any account.
And so on. And then system will do all this so automatically that he will do it faster than I just typed it.
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Geeks and Nerds
If the geeks and nerds that made all this stuff possible had said "No Way", none of this would be possible.
Now it's up to them to fix it.
You listening, Zuckerberg,Brin,Cook,Gates and on and on.
"You can trust us"...suuurrre we can.
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Re: Geeks and Nerds
If the lawyers and bureaucrats had said 'No Way' none of this would be possible.
If the contractors had said 'No Way' none of this would be possible.
If the middle managers and CEOs of the contracting companies had said 'No Way' none of this would be possible.
If congress and the executives had said 'No Way' none of this would be possible.
Seems silly to blame just 1 group of people who like to feel powerful and gets lots of money while they do it...
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What farm did you crawl off of?
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Wrong interpretation
You completely misunderstood. All he's saying is if he had their email address he could tap it. He's not talking about an authorization email.
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Actually that's what I meant too. I realized my own wording was a bit unclear, so I clarified, by adding "address" after email.
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As a result I expect to have my phone tapped, to be followed even to the grocery store and if I was protesting now I would treat email, tweets, fecebook or any other service including my cable TV to be used to spy on me, just like my phone. Only use prearranged code or just shut the hell up.
Now maybe you "Joe Citizen" the common man in America will finally start to believe that we have become a communist country.
Next comes censorship! All In the name of stopping Terrorists, Drugs, Guns and Child Porn. The holy rollers attack!
This is the government you voted for. Trillions of dollars in debt just to spy on their own people. Will you vote for this crap again?
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I can vote out my Senator, but whoever comes in after her will be just as bad. Money and power corrupt. It doesn't matter how good a person I think someone is, they will not stay that person after being sent in to the Congress machine.
There is no alternative. We're screwed.
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Most of the fundamentalists Christians that I know are no fans of Obama and never have been.
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My point is that who is President isn't actually terribly important in terms of these types of things. It's the system itself that has the problem.
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The fact that almost nobody who uses these terms knows what they really mean doesn't worry them.
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Response to: Shon Gale on Jun 10th, 2013 @ 7:59am
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That's how I feel. What most people do isn't of great concern to the government.
However, private companies do zero in on what we do because there is money to be made.
Big Data and Analytics: The Hero or the Villain ? | Innovation Insights | Wired.com: "If you think about all the hype generated about consumer privacy and enterprises collating and analyzing information for a more targeted and personal experience, customer segmentation and demographics, location-based and real-time marketing what the NSA exposure has taught us is that there really is no privacy in the 21st century and we should just get used to it. Our data is anonymized unless it’s being used specifically for our purpose and benefit but the fact is we are happily generating it for them to use in any case."
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Complete and total idiot
I'm an idiot then. They seriously have better things to worry about than the fact that I'm trying to get a co-worker to have sex with me. Or that I'm excited that Plants vs. Zombies 2 is coming out. Work, Eat, Watch TV, Sleep, Repeat, that is my life, and not necessarily in that order. You got questions about my activities. Bring it!
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You've already admitted you're trying to get a co-worker to have sex with you. Thanks to that remark, someone on the jury has already sided against you.
Basically, since everyone is capable of committing a crime, the government is collecting evidence as if everyone was a criminal.
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Keep in mind that when people say "you've got nothing to fear if you're doing nothing wrong", that your intercepted information is stored forever while people in government service come and go- There's a real possiblity that someday, those people might define disagreeing with their policies, decisions and actions as "doing something wrong".
What then?
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Snowden
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He's sacrificing everything so we know what's going on behind out backs. I can't think of a braver person
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It almost reminds me of the situation where an admin at a used car lot can run credit checks on boyfriends without
much fear of being caught. It seems these people can pretty much do whatever they want without any fear of repercussions. There need to be clear repercussions of misusing this capability.
How many of us would value an ISP these days that didn't just roll over and give into the US government!
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Well, every time there is a leak that exposes some inconvenient facts they always seem so worried.
Like they have a lot of stuff they would like to hide.
Seems to me that the people that really needs to be put under 24/7 surveillance is the politicians and their industry backers...
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Your records ARE being checked -- by private companies
This is routinely being done by private companies. They run checks on people all the time. In fact, the only way to prevent them from doing it is by passing laws saying what info they can't use to deny people services, to deny renting to them, to deny selling to them, to deny insurance to them, etc.
The vast data collection system is being used to monitor people. Get rid of government monitoring, but allow businesses to do it freely, and you will find people routinely treated differently depending on what businesses find out out them.
Think of all the discrimination that has happened over the years to gays. All someone had to do was to suggest you were gay and you'd be treated differently.
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Laws protecting privacy should apply equally to the government and corporations.
No-one is saying to allow business monitoring only, or let that be unlimited. People also understand government monitoring where actual reasonable suspicion exists, and the laws with full Constitutional safeguards are followed.
Too much since 9/11 has been unconstitutional, from Guantanamo to the current shenanigans. Too much has been immoral, from foreign invasions for private company/military industrial benefit to the persecution of whistleblowers.
America, you are supposed to set a positive example, not convince everyone you are hypocrites and give them ideas for their own repression.
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We don't really know what all is being collected and how that is being used. And when some privacy groups suggest that private companies be totally transparent, the private companies haven't been especially forthcoming. And when citizens want to see those files and be able to erase that data, they are often told how impractical that is for private companies.
When the focus is only on government, it's a way for private companies to be dodgy about what they do. I'm not sure we're going to get rid of the data collection and surveillance by private companies, but we can at least all be aware of everything that is being done.
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The US government is a client with big money
Silicon Valley Doesn't Just Help the Surveillance State—It Built It - Michael Hirsh - The Atlantic
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Bletchley Park
If you really think "putting it all together" isn't the main function of the secret services you are living under a rock.
And how will you do that without "getting it all" eh?
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Casablanca 2013: Captain Snowden: "...I’m shocked, shocked to find that
electronic data gathering is going on in here...."
Mr. Snowden has revealed no new groundbreaking facts
regarding electronic data gathering. There are numerous metadata mining algorithms floating around out there that the govt. and private industry use 24-7, not to mention RFIDs. Remember folks, those terms of agreement we never read??? By clicking/agreeing through those, you relinquish ownership of "your" information. It's not yours, its theirs.
This data mining effort, its ancestors, and its progeny has been around for decades. Snowdon is obviously a fan of the
Hollywood B movies "The Net" and "Enemy of the State". OK now make sure your tinhat Stetsons are on tight pardners. I
truly believe he's been 1) co-opted by another govt. agency to embarrass another agency; 2) is an actor hired by the govt. to show what might happen to someone who leaks classified info; 3) more
likely recruited by the Chicoms to embarrass the US; 4) just a disaffected nerd looking for fame and fortune; or 5)my personal favorite, is in a conspiracy with his "pole dancing " gf to drive traffic to her youtube channel. Take your pick.
The real scandal is how a 29 y.o
HS/jr college/US armed forces dropout, with limited professional technical
experience, who reportedly worked as a security guard at the NSA and Dell(likely in customer service or tech support- Dell's not saying what he did), got a job at the CIA and Booz and Allen in the first place with ANY access to potentially classified info (at least according to his little "narrative"). I'd more believe his story if was said he was a janitor at B&A and he overheard some real tech guys or "spies" talking in the restroom. And don't give me a story about all the genious HS/college dropouts who are computer wizkids and get hired by major high tech corporations to make big bucks. I worked for the biggest one of those high tech corporations, and we did not hire guys without college degrees no matter how smart they might be or high they might have tested on an aptitude test. While brilliant non-degreed folks are out there, I sincerely believe that the Army would have learned about any potential braniac capabilities Snowden had back when he first joined up during his short stint in the service and put him on a track where he wouldn't have broken a leg or two (btw, the Army cannot substantiate that claim). Besides if he was such a bright guy on his own, he would have already come up with the next newest thing and IPOed already.
Well, its all a moot point now anyway. By his own admission talking with the Chinese (the Chinese paper...rather) about cyber snooping by the US on the Chinese even through any real peripheral knowledge he may have picked at the water cooler from the real security guys, he has committed treason, regardless of his original "selfless" and "patriotic" intentions.
" ...Move along, these aren't the droids we're looking for..."
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Sniowden and Controled Release of Information
The subsequent revelation by all media on June 7, 2013 of GIGANTIC USA and UK phone and Internet surveillance programs rubber-stamped by Congress and “secret intelligence courts” documents this conclusively. It was revealed that the so-called National Security Agency (NSA) and MI6 British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) have ALSO been tapping directly into servers of ALL social media websites, e.g. Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc. to track Online communication in a program called “PRISM!” The capitalist dictatorship also controls the entire Internet by either permitting NO COMMENT WHATSOEVER or by requiring “sign-ins” and “passwords,” which the so-called “intelligence community” then immediately deletes (!) to prevent access to virtually ALL media websites, which block any political comments except occasional brainless “peanut gallery twitter-type” responses. “We are modifying comments” blocks the rest! The irrefutable fact that ALL “Terrorist Plots” from the 911 Trade Center Provocation Attack to the 2001 and Subsequent Anthrax Provocations to the Underpants Bomber to the Times Square Bomber to the Boston Marathon Bombers to the Buffalo New York High School Student “Terrorist Plot” to the Florida High School Student “Terrorist Plot” were ALL SET-UPS is proof the claim by “Gen.” Keith Alexander, director of the NSA, that “surveillance helped stop dozens of attacks” is a BIG LIE! (Even Democratic Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall said they had seen no evidence NSA programs had produced "uniquely valuable intelligence.” The surveillance described by Edward Snowden was partly used to locate Islamic Fundamentalists in the USA, who were then immediately contacted by deep-cover NSA/CIA agents sent in who pretend to support them and then set them up with explosives, pick targets, etc. Thus any supposed “terrorist plot” has already been reported in the media! There were not more than a half-dozen “plots!” The USA also spies on China, Russia, UK, EU and all 197 countries in the United Nations! There can be no exceptions! The USA is waging war against the entire world!
There has been an enormous media build-up of Edward Snowden and also Bradley Manning comparing them to Daniel Ellsberg, who released the Pentagon Papers, who merely represented that faction of USA capitalism which wanted an end to the Vietnam War, Woodward and Bernstein who wrote a cover-up of the Watergate Bloodless Removal of Richard Nixon by Nelson Rockefeller—the real “Deep Throat,” and Phillip Agee (the CIA deep cover “limited hang-out” operative who specialized in “Covert Action” information who pretended he had “defected” in the 1980s in order to act as a supposed “authoritative source” for leftists unaware of his purpose, which was to try to monopolize conspiracies in order to cover up political assassinations, political policies from a supposed “left” position and keep genuine opposition loyal to capitalism by keeping them confused and by never ever proposing the solution—Socialism. Snowden and Manning, on the other hand both appear to be manipulee cutouts. There is no possible way that Bradley Manning or anyone anywhere could have accumulated 250,000 United States diplomatic state department cables; and 500,000 army reports (the Iraq War logs and Afghan War logs) on one computer (!), which were then serialized by Wikileaks! The Wikileaks revelations were also thus a total set-up: 1.) to popularize USA Statecraft and 2.) to excite patriotism at the same time by charging Manning and now Snowden as “traitors.” The enormous NSA surveillance is almost entirely useless from an intelligence point of view as explained above and as US Senators Wyden et al concur, so the decision was made to reveal the extent of the surveillance IN ORDER TO USE IT TO INTIMIDATE the entire USA and EU populations, which are already totally divided with no Communist representation and who are being set up for economic and biological extermination in order to reduce the “population demographic” as explained in the larger analysis .
William H. Depperman, Coordinator
United Front Against Racism
And Capitalism-Imperialism
New York, N.Y. 10003
Revised June 16, 2013
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