NSA Insiders: The Government Will Soon Be Able To Track All of Your Electronic Communications
In a shocking revelation, three whistleblowers from the National Security Agency (NSA) have confirmed the nightmares you’ve had since watching “Enemy of the State” 14 years ago. The three have come forward to present evidence in the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) lawsuit against the government, claiming that a mass surveillance program is in the works.
The case, Jewel v. NSA, details facts that imply that the NSA “is in the process of obtaining, the capability to seize and store most electronic communications passing through its U.S. intercept centers, such as the ‘secret room’ at the AT&T facility in San Francisco.”
EFF has been making its case for a while now, and this is a huge step forward.
“For years, government lawyers have been arguing that our case is too secret for the courts to consider, despite the mounting confirmation of widespread mass illegal surveillance of ordinary people,” said EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn. “Now we have three former NSA officials confirming the basic facts. Neither the Constitution nor federal law allow the government to collect massive amounts of communications and data of innocent Americans and fish around in it in case it might find something interesting. This kind of power is too easily abused. We’re extremely pleased that more whistleblowers have come forward to help end this massive spying program.”
William E. Binney, Thomas A. Drake, and J. Kirk Wiebe are the three former NSA employees who have come forward to speak in support of the lawsuit. The three were subjected to federal investigations to determine the source of leaks to the New York Times, which first wrote about the warrantless wiretapping program. They were all cleared of the charges or had their charges dropped.
EFF is now arguing that the Federal Governments claims of the subject being a state secret is no longer a valid defense to keep the case from proceeding in court.
“The NSA warrantless surveillance programs have been the subject of widespread reporting and debate for more than six years now. They are just not a secret,” said EFF Attorney Lee Tien. “Yet the government keeps making the same ‘state secrets’ claims again and again. It’s time for Americans to have their day in court and for a judge to rule on the legality of this massive surveillance.”
To see a full motion of the call for a summary judgement, visit the link below:
https://www.eff.org/document/plaintiffs-motion-partial-summary-judgment
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A double edged sword. If the US had that kind of information prior to 911, tha tragedy might have been averted.
John H Hill
July 9, 2012 at 12:31 am
No, 911 would NOT have been avoided. Even if the government had been told who, what, when, where, and how, it would not have acted because “racial profiling” is wrong. If the islamic pigs had instead been white Christians from Utah, the government might have stopped it. But Arab looking men with accents? No way they are going to be stopped. Fact is, at least one airport security person noticed the men and their strange behaviour, yet literlly did NOT take action because of the racial nature that would have been obvious in any intervention.
We must thank our friends in the NAACP and the ACLU for going overboard in their “racial profiling” complaints; racial profiling is rare in routine traffic stops, and all the studies have shown that black drivers are stopped in proportions that reflect their percentages of drivers on the roadways; yet radial elements want to insist that every traffic stop of a black man is racially motivated. Trust me when I tell you that white folks — especially if driving an old junky car — get stopped for apparently no reason, too. On a slow night, cops will pull over virtually anyone that happens to be there. The next time you consider playing the race card (where there truly isn’t a racial issue involved), remember what happened on 911. We now find racial profiling being used to protect illegal aliens from being apprehended; the ACLU and other lefties out there want us to believe that apprehending illegal aliens has nothing to do with illegal activitiy, and everything to do with race (simply because the majority of illegal aliens are hispanic). OK, enough of my rant.
me112233
July 9, 2012 at 6:46 pm
I’d be inclined to agree with you had there not been such evidence incriminating the US in plotting said attack.
Christopher
July 10, 2012 at 3:33 am
Who says they Didn’t? Didn’t you wonder how fast they were able to report who they were immediately aft the planes crashed? Michael Moore’s 911 shed a lot of light on that incident and made you think!! Makes you wanna say hummm
Misty
July 11, 2012 at 9:49 am
Its already in place and you’re now being traced..Be careful what you post on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks!
Ann
July 9, 2012 at 3:31 am
please go to You.Gov and read the artical on ‘We The People’…..and the ‘framers of the constitution’……’the rights of the people’ …. ‘by the people and of the people’ The subject of what the NSA is doing and what they do is been around for yeary, real low key but always exposed, the Government is too big and the right hand has no idea what the left hand is doing. All you got to do is, ‘Stop and Think’, go back to the beginning, what happend to the 3 or 4 million people living in the Americas when it was ‘discovered’. they were not considered as equals, considered savages by the people that wanted control of them and the land that they lived on, what makes one man better then the other. because he speaks a different language and has different customs. slavery, the same subject, get rich on bof others. when slavery was abolished, we will not take care of them if we can not make money off of them. It took another 100 years to see freedom for the black man in this country. Today the country is deteriating, some of the large cities are failing education systems are failing. manufacturing is and large companies are outsourcing to foreign countries, look at lables on clothing and other goods and commodities, made in China, Viet Nam, India and anywhere but the good old U.S.A. Viet Nam, Clombia and Afganistane have one in common. ‘who control’s import and export’, the ports or outsourced to who? By who?
Lesley Howard
July 9, 2012 at 6:53 am
They aren’t trying to prevent nothing but ppl making money. They need more slave labor and “evidence” against whisle blowers. The systems rigged children!
Erica Canada
July 9, 2012 at 3:52 pm
They had the information and did not act on. Getting closer to KGB and others that watch all that you do, camers every where and now this.
sam
July 10, 2012 at 7:53 am
I agree with u Christopher, too many sources point to an inside job. like the passport of said highjacker recovered in the street after the crash and the fed building that was never hit going down hmmmm.
Eli
July 10, 2012 at 11:38 am
LOL!! This is not news….I already assumed they were tracking already!!
Misty
July 11, 2012 at 9:45 am