Glenn Greenwald, a columnist for the British newspaper The Guardian who reported on the disclosures of NSA leaker Edward Snowden, said in a speech over the weekend that an upcoming story will describe a classified document that “talks about how a brand new technology enables the National Security Agency to redirect into its own repositories 1 billion cellphone calls every single day.”
“What we are really talking about here is a globalized system that prevents any form of electronic communication from taking place without it being stored and monitored by the National Security Agency,” Greenwald said in a webcast to the Socialism Conference in Chicago. “It means they’re storing every call and have the capability to listen to them at any time.”
McClatchy
Hints surface that NSA building massive, pervasive surveillance capability
Greg Gordon | McClatchy Washington Bureau
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“What we are really talking about here is a globalized system that prevents any form of electronic communication from taking place without it being stored and monitored by the National Security Agency,” Greenwald said in a webcast to the Socialism Conference in Chicago. “It means they’re storing every call and have the capability to listen to them at any time.”
Does that mean that the NSA has the capability to go back after the fact and reconstruct and listen to stored phone conversations, emails and other communications? If so, we are in deep kimchi.
As Chris Hayes observed recently, the real issues is not so much privacy, but secrecy. We are not supposed to know, so voters have no idea of vitally important policy initiatives that affect them and their rights, and which may be changing the nation.
What about the republic? Who needs it? Hail Caesar!
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