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“Politically Explosive” Docs Show How NSA Wiretaps Earth
“Politically Explosive” Docs Show How NSA Wiretaps Earth
Latest reporting on Snowden-leaked documents detail importance and reach of agency’s third-party agreements
Leaked NSA slide that details a program called RAMPART-A which has help create the spy agency’s global communications dragnet.
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According to a recently published report, the report states New reporting by The Intercept and a partner newspaper in Denmark reveals that the National Security Agency, beyond its well-documented close-ties to the so-called Five Eyes nations, has extensive and previously unknown surveillance agreements with other nations that allow it unsurpassed access to global communication systems and the private information of the world’s citizens that travel through them.
Based on documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the new reporting details a program called RAMPART-A which uses digital “congestion points” located across the world and allows the agency to “intercept the content of phone calls, faxes, e-mails, internet chats, data from virtual private networks, and calls made using Voice over IP software like Skype.”
The NSA would not give comment to The Intercept on the RAMPART-A program, but agency spokesperson Vanee Vines offered this statement: “The fact that the U.S. government works with other nations, under specific and regulated conditions, mutually strengthens the security of all. NSA’s efforts are focused on ensuring the protection of the national security of the United States, its citizens, and our allies through the pursuit of valid foreign intelligence targets only.”
In addition to its wide reach, what stands out about the program is its brute strength. As Intercept journalist Ryan Gallagher explains, the computing power of the devices used for RAMPART-A “enables the NSA to tap into three terabits of data every second as the data flows across the compromised cables — the equivalent of being able to download about 5,400 uncompressed high-definition movies every minute.”
Read More HERE http://www.opednews.com/articles/Politically-Explosive-Do-by-Common-Dreams-Internet_NSA_Snowden_Surveillance-140620-976.html
Map looks like it shows NY to be the mothesrhip, I have known a lot of NYkr’s and they seem to be alright, but they have been conned into not what I thought they were. You suck NY, not the people I once knew!