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Spying On Americans, Cellphones, Emails: The NSA Is On The Line — All Of Them
Global Research Editor`s Note
Read the following article by Kim Zetter published in Salon.com in 2006.
Kim Zetter interviews Martin Aid, a historian of US intelligence and university professor.
This 2006 interview with Martin Aid provides in-depth analysis and information about the NSA’s surveillance program.
“An intelligence expert predicts we’ll soon learn that cellphone and Internet companies also cooperated with the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on us.
The NSA now owns vastly improved technology to sift through and mine massive amounts of data it has collected in what is being described as the world’s single largest database of personal information. And, according to Aid, the mining goes far beyond our phone lines.”
It says it all. Déjà Vu. And that was in 2006.
Bear in mind spying on Americans was an official policy of the Bush administration. In June 2006, according to reports, the head of the CIA Gen. Michael Hayden was to build a vast domestic spying network to:
“pry into the lives of most Americans around the clock.”
Most of what Edward Snowden has revealed amidst Worldwide controversy is not only known to analysts of US intelligence, it is in the public domain.
And it has been in the public domain for several years.
Ask yourself. Is the Edward Snowden Saga the story of a controversial Whistleblower revealing classified information, or is it something else? Is Hollywood going to pick it up and create another Legend?
The independent media –including Global Research– has been covering the issue of spying on Americans for several years. Why is the mainstream media providing coverage of this issue now in relation to the Edward Snowden affair? Why did it not inform the public years back when this information was made available?
Why would Snowden be prosecuted for leaking something which has been known and documented (in the public domain) for years?
With regard to the Snowden affair, are we dealing with something “real” or is it a “red herring” which seeks not only to deliberately mislead public opinion but to create Worldwide confusion?
Michel Chossudovsky, July 21, 2013
The NSA is on the line — all of them
An intelligence expert predicts we’ll soon learn that cellphone and Internet companies also cooperated with the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on us.
By Kim Zetter
Monday, May 15, 2006
When intelligence historian Matthew Aid read the USA Today story last Thursday about how the National Security Agency was collecting millions of phone call records from AT&T, Bell South and Verizon for a widespread domestic surveillance program designed to root out possible terrorist activity in the United States, he had to wonder whether the date on the newspaper wasn’t 1976 instead of 2006.
Aid, a visiting fellow at George Washington University’s National Security Archive, who has just completed the first book of a three-volume history of the NSA, knew the nation’s bicentennial marked the year when secrets surrounding another NSA domestic surveillance program, code-named Project Shamrock, were exposed. As fireworks showered New York Harbor that year, the country was debating a three-decades-long agreement between Western Union and other telecommunications companies to surreptitiously supply the NSA, on a daily basis, with all telegrams sent to and from the United States. The similarity between that earlier program and the most recent one is remarkable, with one exception — the NSA now owns vastly improved technology to sift through and mine massive amounts of data it has collected in what is being described as the world’s single largest database of personal information. And, according to Aid, the mining goes far beyond our phone lines.
