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NSA Stores 80% of all Phone Calls

posted by azrael on Sunday July 13 2014, @02:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the pinch-of-salt dept.

Anonymous Coward writes:

At least 80 percent of all audio calls are gathered and stored by the NSA, whistleblower William Binney has revealed. The former code-breaker says the spy agency's ultimate aim is no less than total population control.

"At least 80 percent of fiber-optic cables globally go via the US", Binney said. "This is no accident and allows the US to view all communication coming in. At least 80 percent of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US. The NSA lies about what it stores."

Binney has no evidence to substantiate his claims as he did not take any documents with him when he left the NSA. However, he insists the organization is untruthful about its intelligence gathering practices and their ultimate aim. He says that recent Supreme Court decisions have led him to believe the NSA won't stop until it has complete control over the population.

 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by keplr on Sunday July 13 2014, @03:09AM

    by keplr (2104) on Sunday July 13 2014, @03:09AM (#68341) Journal

    It's about protecting the US's economic system, from threats both external and internal. If someone starts to get too popular with the masses, preaching a message of pacifism, humanism, and non-materialism, that person needs to be discredited and silenced. Even better, let's try to identify and discredit them before they get popular. Then there are the actual violent foreign terrorists, we need to stop them too. No need to be subtle with them, they're not even US citizens (some actually are) so they're beyond concern: track their cellphones and drop a missile on them remotely.

    You've got a certain type of person who sees our economic model and way of life as the apex of the human spirit. It's our right to spread this model far and wide, and dominate all other systems of thought and ways of life. This incidentally pisses a lot of people off, and since the people in charge have an us-vs-them mentality, anything is justified in protecting "us" and our interests; loosely defined as what is best for the top US corporations and political factions.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Covalent on Sunday July 13 2014, @03:23AM

    by Covalent (43) on Sunday July 13 2014, @03:23AM (#68348) Journal

    "The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were- cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?"

    Old Mr. Orwell has it right, yet again. The government does not seek power for some idealistic reason, or even some nefarious reason. The government seeks power for its own sake. They seek power so that they can become more powerful. They seek power because having power makes you powerful, and being powerful is useful in all sorts of unimagined scenarios. Power is not a means, it is an end. And our government, even though it may be better than many, is fundamentally no different from any other: it seeks to become more powerful.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 19 2014, @01:48AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 19 2014, @01:48AM (#71083)

    If you think you're getting the truth from Bush, Obama, or any one of their cronies at NSA then pleas watch the two part video from PBS, Frontline titled, "United States of SECRETS". It tells the entire story of the rise of 100% spying on the U.S. population by both Presidents. If you care about your freedom and the Constitution it is well worth watching.